We may be more expensive than our competition, but hey, you get what you pay for! We only deliver small group tours with a maximum of seven clients, and your guide is a long-standing, highly regarded, fully qualified Mountain Leader and Tourist Guide for Wales. 

This is a fully inclusive tour with ALL admissions to the various attractions paid for in advance by us. Our Valleys tour is a guided tour from central Cardiff or Newport, taking in the industrial heritage of the valleys.

South Wales is geologically 'lucky', having all of the elements required to fuel the industrial revolution: iron, coal, limestone and silica rock. From the 1750s iron boom through the 1850s to the 1980s 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. We'll also have a look at the scenic beauty of the Brecon Beacons National Park, which lies to the north, on the fringes of the coalfields, and how the mining communities are recovering, post the closure of the mines in the 1990s. Please see the itinerary for all of the stops and visits.

This tour includes a guided tour of the Big Pit National Coal Museum. 

We will visit spots with the most astounding views and many interesting features on our journey. You will be able to spend time with the guide at each location, as they walk and talk about Wales, its history and culture or you are free to self-explore. We will return to Cardiff around 6 pm, and likely a little earlier. 

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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, an ambassador for many areas of Wales and a Visit Wales Pro. Oh, and amongst other things, tourism and adventure, he’s also been chair of Brecon Beacons Tourism and a Brecon Beacons National Park Warden.

Know Before You Go

• This tour will take place rain or shine
• There is a small amount of outdoor walking

Please note

Sometimes attractions are closed for maintenance or filming. We will, in these rare instances, offer an alternative stop of similar interest.