Wales self guided walking holiday options

Description of Wales self guided walking holiday options

These Wales self guided walking holiday options are itineraries created by local experts who know all the ins and outs of Wales’ most spectacular walking trails. Choose your route, and the amount of time you can spare to walk, although we do recommend a minimum of seven days for most of them. And we usually plan our itineraries with about 21km of walking a day in mind.

During your walking holiday you will stay in carefully selected, locally owned accommodation which are, where possible members of the Green Tourism Business Scheme which celebrates community, local food and conservation. You will have your bags transferred for you from one accommodation to the next and we will recommend pubs and restaurants along the way for meals and snacks, booking accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis only, ensuring that your tourist spend is spread widely along the trails.

Here is the choice or walking trails that we offer.

Offa’s Dyke Path

A long distance walking trail covering 285km between Prestatyn on the north coast of Wales, heading inland all the way down through the country to Chepstow. Covering some of Wales’ most stunning inland landscapes, which in many places form a natural border with England, explore the Clwydian Hills, Llangollen, the engineering feat of the Pontcysylite Aqueduct, the historic and beautiful town of Hay-on-Wye and finally the Roman town of Chepstow on the English border and Bristol Channel. It is also home to Chepstow Castle, situated on a clifftop above the Wye, just one of many castles and historic churches or abbeys that you will see en route.
The Offa’s Dyke Path can be walked in two weeks, covering about 20km per day. Some of our guests break it up into two halves, doing the Prestatyn to Welshpool section on one holiday and then completing the Path to Chepstow on another break. It’s all tailor made, so it is totally up to you, but we can advise on all options available.

Glyndwr’s Way

Glyndwr's Way is a 217km long distance path between Knighton and Welshpool, and another one of Wales' long distance walking trails which you can take on in either direction. Either way, it is a relatively easy hike through rolling Welsh countryside including the Radnorshire Hills, alongside Clywedog Reservoir and Plynlimon, the highest point in the Cambrian Mountains. Although you don’t actually climb this, the most elevated point on Glyndwr’s Way being Foel Fadian at 510m. Other highlights along the Way include Machynlleth, seat of Glyndwr’s Welsh Parliament in 1404, Glaslyn Nature Reserve and the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Steam Railway. You can walk the entire Way in about ten days.

The Wye Valley Walk

Another long distance walking trail from Chepstow, this one follows the idyllic environs of the River Wye for 218km to its source at Plynlimon in the Cambrian Mountains. This walking trail is also shared with England in parts, heading through Hereford and Ross-on-Wye, and then back west again to the border at Hay-On-Wye back in Wales. As you can imagine, there is a lot of history to explore along this border route but also wonderful landscapes such as the Lower Wye Gorge, undulating moorland, Dernol Valley and the Cambrian Mountains. With culturally celebrated historic towns along the way.

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