Radar Weekends to Elan Valley happened many times with great memories staying at the Elan Valley Hotel . Tiggy visited a few times in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
One of the room I stayed in, I think over the years I stayed in three different rooms.
Elan Valley has some beautiful scenery, reservoirs and a visitors centre. Here is a good view from the top of the Caban Coch Dam along the valley with the visitors centre in the distance.
Some more pics of the Caban Coch Dam.
The view across the reservoir created by the dam.
Heading along the Afon Elan river bank you pass the Elan Village Suspension Bridge.
This is one of the first walks we did anti-clockwise around one of the hills surrounding Elan Valley. A walk where I saw a snake (probably a slow worm) on a footpath, the snake was small but increased in size everytime the story was told.
One of the more standard walks we did, along the river bank to the Dam, Visitors Centre and back to the hotel.
A nice, long Sunday hike to Rhayader and back we did one year.
This walk has a rope bridge (Glyn Bridge).
On some of the walks we had difficult choices to make...
Here are some of the views during one of the walks.
Obligatory "locals" pic.
Also very near Elan Valley dam is a smaller, but more historically important, dam. The Nant-y-Gro Dam which was used for testing explosives on dams for the second world war Dambusters raids.
Fun as the weekends away at Elan Valley Hotel were, the roadtrips to and from were just as great. Here are a few pics taken during those long, scenic journeys.
