Snowdonia National Park
Britain's second-largest national park, after the Lake District, Snowdonia covers
840 sq miles (1352 sq km) of North Wales, including Snowdon - at 3560ft (1068m), the highest peak in
Britain south of the Scottish Highlands.
About 500,000 people touch the rugged summit every year, whether by climbing, walking or taking the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Long the testing ground of more ambitious mountaineers (Edmund Hillary, for example), Snowdon's many trails make the summit accessible to hikers of varying abilities.
The park also contains rivers, lakes, waterfalls, forests, moorlands, glacial valleys and a lovely coastline, as well as Stone and Bronze Age burial chambers, Roman forts, Norman castles, steam railways and relics of the country's mining heritage.
Centres include the climbers' haven of lakeside Llanberis, postcard-pretty Betws-y-Coed, the former slate-mining village of Blaenau Ffestiniog and the castle town of Harlech.
Wales 2005
The following pictures are taken from my trip to Wales in 2005. Pictures include the coast at Colwyn Bay, and the Snowdon Mountain Railway
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