The Brecon Beacons in South Wales offers walks and walking routes as varied while you could imagine. A place of true outstanding natural splendor its landscape is intertwined with exploitation, conservation, preservation and recreation.

The Brecon Beacons, based on the Brecon Beacons National Park, has embraced the requirement to protect this stunning area with investment and environmental consciousness. The region boasts the tallest, roughest, toughest peaks in South Wales engulfed within the boundless terrain, swooping escarpments, huge vistas, impressive tarns (lakes formed by glacial formations) and also the barren moorlands.

The sudden transition in the tranquillity and also the breathtaking scenery from the Brecon Beacons to the coal bearing valleys legacy from the industrial revolution is nearly instant.

Merthyr Tydfil was previously the biggest town in Wales having a legend dating back 480 when Saint Tydfil was slain by pagans. In her own honour the city was renamed Merthyr Tydfil, with Merthyr as being a modern Welsh translation of Martyr. Using the growth of the iron industry, several wars and also the rapid growth of railways meant the city grew until its peak in 1861. Through the 1930’s following The first world war the area and industry is at decline. Everything remained from the Dowlais ironworks finally closed later marking the finish of 228 many years of continuous production in one of the many, many sites.

Near by is Port Talbot, the house in 1952 of 1 of Europe’s biggest steelworks and also the then largest employer in Wales. A chemical plant in 1960 and deep-water harbour renovation in 1970 meant the region was great for the community but a ruin inside the landscape.

Herein lays the significance of maintaining rural South Wales using the Brecon Beacons being the saviour of tourism and also the Gower Peninsula by Swansea offering wonderful holiday spots for that beach lovers and coastal walkers.

The Brecon Beacons National Park provides a consistent character of wave upon wave of open hillside and superior mountain air. The terrain dips, rolls and rises fluidly just like a giant green sea. Walking routes within the Brecon Beacons are uncomplicated with available spaces and vast skies above, simple to navigate but ruthlessly draining with slow steady climbs that appear endless.

The Black Mountains may be the first of the 4 main mountain ranges within the Brecon Beacons, a lofty selection of hills across the Welsh/English border. The Brecon Beacons would be the heart from the Brecon Beacons national Park and also to the west would be the moors and plateaux of Fforest Fawr. The loneliest of mountain ranges reaches the far west from the Brecon Beacons, Black Mountain; a challenging wilderness for that very brave explorer.

Compared to its northern counterpart, the Snowdonia National Park, the Brecon Beacons is much more reliable compared to lucky-dip landscape of boulder strewn slopes, jagged pinnacles, boggy moors and woodland valleys.

Whilst Mount Snowdon and also the Snowdonia National Park may seem like the preferred option for the more adventurous the Brecon Beacons beholds rarer of treasures; the Welsh waterfalls. The Welsh waterfalls are nearly as endless because the mountain ranges and may be found within the ancient woodlands and forest pathways around the Brecon Beacons.

The expertise of walk into, around, up and below, outside and inside of a Welsh waterfall is really a definite rival towards the many peaks and cwms of Mount Snowdon.