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Ystradfellte Waterfalls

This weekends adventure with Mark Waidson was complimented by the addition of Clive Griffiths to our merry band of photographers, just over an hours drive later, a full days hiking through the Waterfalls and woodlands of the Coed-y-Rhaeadr lay ahead...

 

Nestled into the southern slopes of the Fforest Fawr massif, west of Merthyr Tydfil, Waterfall Country is one of the most beautiful and popular parts of the Brecon Beacons National Park and the Fforest Fawr Geopark, with steep, tree-lined gorges and an abundance of tumbling water.

 

Known in Welsh as Coed-y-Rhaeadr (Wood of the Water), Waterfall Country lies within the triangle formed by the villages of Hirwaun, Ystradfellte, and Pontneddfechan. Here, old red sandstone and a long belt of outcrop limestone have created a highly distinctive environment of wooded gorges, caves, swallow holes and waterfalls.

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Uploaded on November 13, 2016