South West Wales

South West Wales

South West Wales comprises the counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath Port Talbot. It is also home to Pembrokeshire National Park. This park is the UK's only truly coastal national park and incorporates woodlands, beaches, lakes and islands. Lying mainly on the coast this is a great place to spot sea-life such as dolphins and seals and potentially whales. The park is great for bird lovers with opportunities to spot rare choughs, puffins, woodpeckers and moorhens as well as heron and gannet. The coastal aspect to this park is awesome with lovely sandy beaches, rugged cliffs along with estuaries lined with woods.

Also in Pembrokeshire are the lovely villages of Tenby and St.Davids found hidden amongst the cliffs and extremely popular and worth visiting.

Other attractions include the Mumbles, an old Victorian resort also known as the “Gateway to Gower”, Swansea, the second city of Wales, and Oxwich Bay with its excellent surfing and sandy beach. Carmarthenshire offers some wonderful old castles and gardens to visit and is home to the National Botanic Garden of Wales.