From London, we rented a car and left at around 8.15 AM. The drive took about 5 hours with a quick stop for breakfast on a service stop off the motorway. When we reached the walled town of Conwy, it was around 1.15 PM and there were no more spaces at the main castle car park. We drove a little further in and found another car park which was about a 5-minute walk from Conwy Castle. The ticket office is next to the main car park and entrance tickets cost 10.40 GBP1 each. You then cross a small bridge to get to the main castle gate. The castle ruins have been well preserved, especially the 8 towers. You can climb the towers and walk around the castle walls. From the tall towers, you’ll get views of the town, river, and Snowdonia National Park which surrounds the fortress. There are several information panels around describing the original purpose of specific areas of the castle. It took us about an hour to explore the castle before heading to the town for some lunch.
After lunch, we headed to Aber Falls and it’s a 20-minute drive to the car park. There is then a trail leading to Aber Falls which is fairly straightforward to follow. It took us about 45-minutes to get there and we took some rest at some rocks near the falls. We then crossed the stream to get a view from the other side. There’s a bridge further down the path to cross but you can also cross using the rocks on the stream. Some rocks are slippery so cross with caution. You can get fairly close but be prepared to get wet from the spray of the falls. After taking some pictures, we continued down a trail for about 15 minutes arriving at another set of falls. We read up beforehand that this trail circuits back to the car park, but looking at the map it looked a lot longer and it was already 5.30 PM. So we decided to turn around and walk back since we had a 2-hour drive to our Airbnb2 in Machynlleth.
