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Builth Wells
"The Mid Wales countryside is varied with magnificent great reservoirs using the natural shape of the landscape"  |
| The Mid Wales countryside is varied with magnificent great reservoirs using the natural shape of the landscape - now established over many years and a natural habitat for all kinds of wildlife and flora. There are great expanses of open countryside where the Red Kite (which can be viewed at close proximity in several Red Kite Centres), buzzard, kestrel and sparrow hawks wheel and hover overhead - there are more sheep than people and wild Welsh mountain ponies wander over the hills. Builth Wells has shops and pubs, a golf course, sports centre, fishing locally and lovely walks along the River Wye. Mid Wales offers outstanding natural beauty, there are secluded riverside picnic places and mountain streams tumbling into rocky pools, quiet lanes for driving, no traffic lights and easy parking in the villages. Travel the Old Drovers route through Abergwesyn or Cilycwm referred to as the "roof top of Wales". There are all types of activities available in the area, from pony trekking, mountain walking and biking, clay pigeons, fishing, canoeing, gentle walking at the Elan Valley Reservoirs and hang gliding or paragliding in the soaring thermals above the Black Mountains. There is Offa's Dyke path, the long distance path that follows the footsteps of Owain Glyndwr - the 14th Century Prince of Wales. |
