Blaenavon
After meeting your driver, guide and fellow day trippers at the meeting point in central Cardiff, you’ll head north out the city to the beautiful historic town of Blaenavon, a World Heritage Site and the location of the fascinating Big Pit National Mining Museum of Wales. The popular museum hosts an award-winning tour that takes guests underground to experience first-hand the conditions endured by Welsh coal miners over a century ago.
Brecon Beacons National Park
Once everybody is back on the tour bus, it’s just a short drive north to the world renowned Brecon Beacons National Park and its spectacularly scenic landscape. The National Park is visited by over 4 million people every year, attracted by the beautiful hills, lakes, waterfalls and wildlife.
Brecon
The Brecon Beacons section of the tour begins in the eponymous town of Brecon on the northern edge of the National Park, a picturesque town with a charming High Street of shops, as well as a market, cafés, pubs and an impressively restored 13th century cathedral.
Before returning to Cardiff, your guide will take you to the National Park Visitors’ Centre in the heart of the National Park, where you can learn more about the history of the area, the formation of the landscape, and Fforest Fawr’s special status among stargazers as the world’s 5th best International Dark Sky Reserve.