On the subject of nice driving roads, we’re spoilt for selection in Wales.
I am positive lots have sprung to thoughts already, just like the part of A470 when it heads previous Pen y Fan, the Welsh mountaintop cross that is winding, breathtakingly stunning and utterly brutal or any variety of coastal drives in Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. There’s additionally this final Welsh highway journey that is higher than any vacation overseas and for much more inspiration check out 5 epic Welsh highway journeys you may need to begin planning immediately.
However I am about to share with you this far much less well-known stretch of highway. The views are beautiful and you may make it as quick or as lengthy a drive as you want.
The stretch begins within the small village of Garnlydan on the very north of Blaenau Gwent, not removed from Tredegar. As soon as you have left the village you may cross the Heads of the Valleys highway and into Powys. The built-up nothern reaches of the Gwent Valleys come to an abrupt finish and also you rapidly end up climbing by the uplands of Bannau Brycheiniog, with nothing however mountaintop grassland and the highway for firm.
As soon as you have rounded the hairpin bend on high of the mountain, it begins its gradual descent by slender (however simply drivable) nation lanes and also you would possibly spot the odd bicycle owner beginning the gruelling climb from that path (yow will discover 37 stunning and difficult climbs in South Wales each bicycle owner ought to deal with right here).
On the backside of the descent you may come to a t-junction, the place you possibly can flip proper to proceed your journey to the stunning market city of Crickhowell, or left to move by the gorgeous villages of Llangynidr (the place you may discover a slender stone bridge over the Usk), Talybont-on-Usk and Pencelli (the place you may discover this good pub with the loveliest shock out the again), earlier than heading on to Brecon or into the Bannau Brycheiniog themselves.
