Bethesda

I stayed in a stone cottage in the village of Bethesda and went out hiking daily in the Ogwen valley. Local mountains include Glyder Fawr, Glyder Fach, Tryfan, The Devil’s Kitchen, also some beautiful lakes, Llyn Ogwen and Llyn Idwal. Bethesda is the base of the Ogwen Mountain Rescue Team. Tryfan is within sight of Snowdon and the Snowdonia Mountain Railway. Incredibly beautiful scenery but beware of bad weather as it is only too easy to get benighted and stranded by thick rain cloud. Be sure you go in a group, well equipped and with previous controlled survival experience.