From Cardiff: The Valleys Heritage And South Wales Landscapes

You will travel in a modern and luxurious fully electric vehicle, limited to a maximum of seven passengers, in the company of your driver guide, Andy, who is a Mountain Leader and a Green Badged Tourist Guide. South Wales is geologically 'lucky', having all of the elements required to fuel the industrial revolution, iron, coal, limestone and silica rock. From the 1750's iron boom through the 1850's to the 1980's when coal was king, South Wales was a hive of activity, smelting, mining and developing technologies to improve production. This tour has been designed to look at this history, its effects upon the landscape and people who laboured so hard and also at those who profited from that labour. Please see the itinerary for all of the stops and visits. We'll also have a glimpse the beauty of the Brecon Beacons which lie to the north, on the fringes of the coalfields, and how the mining communities are recovering, post the closure of the mines in the 1990's.