Weekend breaks in Wales

A harbour town of pastel-painted Georgian houses and honey ice cream

The Gateway to Wales, with a famous food festival and mountains on the doorstep

A Victorian seaside resort and university town on Cardigan Bay

A Welsh-speaking lake town with whitewater rafting and a narrow-gauge railway

A seaside town where the mountains meet the estuary

A woodland village at the foot of Snowdonia, with waterfalls and a railway

Mountain ridges, waterfalls and some of the darkest skies in Wales

A compact Welsh capital with a castle in the city centre

A dark stone market town beneath Cadair Idris, with the Mawddach estuary

Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with golden bays and cliff walks

A castle on a cliff above a golden beach and the Snowdonia mountains

The town of books, on the edge of the Black Mountains

Dylan Thomas's village, with a boathouse, a writing shed and a castle

A grand Victorian seaside resort beneath the Great Orme

A canal, a steam railway and a spectacular aqueduct in the Dee Valley

A foodie market town with independent shops, close to the Pembrokeshire coast

A harbour town in Cardigan Bay, famous for its bottlenose dolphins

A rugged coast of golden beaches, seabirds and a famous coast path

Wales's mountain heartland, with Snowdon at its centre

Britain's smallest city, with a cathedral in a hollow and the coast on its doorstep

A colourful walled harbour town with sandy beaches

A ruined abbey in the Wye Valley that inspired Wordsworth and Turner

A winding river, wooded cliffs and the romantic ruins of Tintern Abbey

A castle in the city centre, a lively waterfront and a great free museum nearby.

Wales's highest mountain, a waterfall village and a mountain railway, with options for different levels.

South Wales's highest peak, a waterfall trail and the town of books.

Pastel harbour houses, a monks' island and Britain's smallest city, on a famous coast.

Snowdon, or Yr Wyddfa, is the highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres.

Pen y Fan is the highest peak in southern Britain at 886 metres.

Coasteering means travelling along the rocky coastline by swimming, scrambling and jumping into the sea, with a guide, helmet and wetsuit.

The Snowdon Mountain Railway is a rack and pinion railway that climbs from Llanberis for nearly five miles toward the summit of Snowdon.

Coed y Brenin forest is widely known as one of the UK's first purpose-built mountain bike trail centres, with graded trails from gentle family loops to hard technical descents.

Tenby is a walled harbour town in Pembrokeshire, with pastel-coloured houses and four sandy beaches including North Beach, South Beach, Castle Beach and Harbour Beach.

Tryfan is a dramatic 915-metre mountain in the Glyderau, famous for its jagged rocky profile and the North Ridge, one of the best-known scrambles in Britain.

Grey seals live around the Gower coast, and can often be seen from the clifftops near Worm's Head and Rhossili, or bobbing in the water offshore.

Cardigan Bay is home to the largest resident population of bottlenose dolphins in the UK, and small boat trips from New Quay, Aberaeron and Cardigan offer a good chance of seeing them.

Skomer is a small island off the Pembrokeshire coast, home to tens of thousands of puffins and other seabirds, as well as seals and rare small mammals.

Caernarfon Castle is one of the most impressive castles in Britain, built by Edward I in the late 13th century and now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Harlech Castle stands on a steep rock above the Atlantic, built by Edward I in the 1280s and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Pembroke Castle is a huge Norman castle on a rocky ridge above the River Cleddau, and the birthplace of Henry VII, the first Tudor king.

St Davids Cathedral lies in a hollow beside a stream, hidden from the sea and any raiders by the surrounding hills.

The Ffestiniog Railway is one of the oldest narrow-gauge railways in the world, running 13 and a half miles from the harbour at Porthmadog up through Snowdonia to the old slate town of Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The Welsh Highland Railway is a 25-mile narrow-gauge line that runs from Caernarfon through the heart of Snowdonia to Porthmadog, one of the longest heritage railways in Britain.