Places to explore in PowysWales · Mid Wales

Counted among the old Seven Wonders of Wales and usually called the country's tallest single-drop fall — a spout threading a natural rock arch above the Tanat valley.

The 'fall of snow' on the Afon Hepste, star of Waterfall Country — the old sheep-drovers' ledge still leads dry-shod behind the curtain.

Highest summit in southern Britain, flat-topped and photogenic.

886 m

Red castle above baroque hanging terraces.

Flat-topped sandstone summits, waterfall gorges and dark skies along the roof of south Wales.

1,350 km²

The Brecon Beacons' flat-topped second summit.

872 m

Long reservoir in the hills above Llanidloes, held back by Britain's tallest concrete buttress dam of its era.

The highest waterfall in south Wales at 90 feet, with a path behind the curtain — moonlighting on film as the mouth of the Batcave.

Show cave complex in the upper Tawe valley with lit chambers, stalactites and an underground river.

The lowest Elan Valley reservoir, its dam designed to spill in a sheet across the full width of the valley.

Small glacial tarn in a cwm below Corn Du, wrapped in fairy-lake folklore.

Large reservoir in a wooded valley with a lakeside path and good birdwatching, stocked with brown trout.