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Abersoch & Pwllheli Accommodation
Beach huts at Llanbedrog on the south Llyn Peninsular
Views across the Llyn to Traeth Bach Estuary
Family days out on the Llyn Peninsular
Llanbedrog Bay between Pwllheli and Abersoch
Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Art Gallery, Llanbedrog. Photo Credit www.jonesweddings.com
Inside Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Art Gallery, Llanbedrog. Photo Credit www.jonesweddings.com Pwllheli & Abersoch Tourist Information
Pwllheli and Abersoch are both hotspots for watersports, particularly surfing and windsurfing around Abersoch and further west on the Llyn south west facing Porth Neigwl beach or Hell's Mouth as it's known is the base for the British Surfing Association and Surf Shops/Schools. Surfing competitions are held here. The east facing Abersoch Bay is popular with windsurfers and wakeboarders (watch out for the annual Wakestock music festival!). Sailing and Powerboating are also popular around Abersoch.
Pwllheli is the major town on the Llyn, once home to a mammoth Butlins fondly remembered by many (1950s Pwllheli Butlins badges are still in big demand!). Less geared to holidaymakers than Abersoch, Pwllheli still makes a superb base for exploring the Llyn, with plenty of lively pubs in the town, as well as a bustling South Beach Promenade. Well worth a visit is Wales' oldest art gallery - Plas Glyn-Y-Weddw at Llanbedrog mid-way between Pwllheli and Abersoch.
Pwllheli & Abersoch Tourist Information
Pwllheli Tourist Information Centre, Min y Don, Station Square, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales, LL53 5HG. Tel: 01758 613000.
Abersoch (Information Point only), Canolfan Groeso, Abersoch, LL53 7EA. Tel: (01758) 712929.
Abersoch Tourist Guide and Abersoch Beaches
Abersoch is sailing and surfing territory. It comes alive more in the summer season, but hardened surfers will hit Hell's Mouth (Porth Neigwl beach) all year round when the surf's up. Wind surfers tend to stay within the more sheltered Abersoch Bay.
For Sailing the waters around Abersoch are renowned, and there's an annual Abersoch Regatta. They host surf competitions here too - check the Abersoch Tourist Guide weblink right for dates. The choice of beaches is superb around Abersoch. Abersoch's main beach faces east onto St Tudwal's with views across to Snowdonia. It's pretty sheltered here and popular with windsurfers and sailing (plenty of yachts moored around this beach). There's a powerboat ban as well, so all combined Abersoch main beach is safe bathing territory and popular with families. If you want to rent one of the beach huts just off the beach enquire at one of the beach cafes.
Abersoch Harbour Beach is an attractive beach cove. If you're looking for a quiet spot this is it. Plenty of other beaches in the area including further down the Llyn Aberdaron Beach, popular with surfers and families. For the best of the surf and surfing conditions head to Porth Ceiriad beach, and Porth Neigwl (Hells Mouth where the BSA and surf school is based). Check the Abersoch Tourist Guide weblink right for full beach listings in the area.
Checkout the annual Abersoch Jazz Festival too (website right). It runs annually around the 8th to the 10th June.
Welsh Language and Heritage Centre, Pwllheli and Historic Attractions
Fancy learning the Welsh language. Here's where, at the Welsh Language and Heritage Centre just outside Pwllheli. As well as residential Welsh languge courses, there's also conference facilities, a heritage centre and heritage shop all on-site. This site was actually the first residential centre for Welsh language learners to be set up in the 1970s. (weblink right for details)
Welsh Language and Heritage Centre, Nant Gwrtheyrn, Llithfaen, Pwllheli, Gwynedd. LL53 6BN. Tel: 01758 750334.
Just to the east of Pwllheli (around 3 miles) discover Penarth Fawr, a Welsh gentry medieval house dating from the 15th century. Renovated in the 1930s, with adjacent stables, it's a fine example of a medieval house, retaining many of it's original features. Craft centres are also on-site, and you can buy specialist ceramics and pottery. Penarth Fawr Medieval House, Chwilog, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, LL53 6PR. Tel: 01766 810880.
Staying on the historic house trail around Pwllheli, checkout Plas Yn Rhiw, a small manor house with garden dating from primarily from the Georgian period, although some of the house dates from the 16th/17th centuries. The property is now owned by the National Trust (weblink right), but it was three sisters who rescued and renovated it in the 1930s! Plas yn Rhiw, Rhiw, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL53 8AB. Telephone: 01758 780219.
Family Holiday Attractions Pwllheli
Glasfryn Parc Activity Centre, Y Ffor, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, LL53 6RD. Tel: 01766 810202.
Lots going on here for all the family including go karting, ten pin bowling, quad trekking, archery, fishing and there's a farm shop on-site. The Parc sits just outside Pwllheli on the A499. (weblink right for details)
Bardsey Island South West Llyn Peninsula
Bardsey Island just 2 miles off the South West edge of the Llyn Peninsula, across the Bardsey Sound and is a popular day boat trip excursion from either Porth Meudwy or Pwllheli. You usually get to spend about 3 1/2 hours to explore this stunning little North Wales Island.
This Welsh Island is just 1.5 miles long at the widest point, and only just over half a mile across. There's a mountain on the island called Mynydd Enlli which reaches upto 167m, and this mountain alone takes up 180 hectares. Bardsey is a National Nature Reserve owned by the Bardsey Island Trust. It's part of the Llyn's Site of Special Scientific interest area. You can expect to see a range of rare flowering plants, birds (there's a bird observatory on the island and Manx Shearwater have a breeding colony on the island), and watch out for the marine wildlife too, notably Atlantic grey seals. The strap seaweed in the seas around the island are a rich feeding ground for marine life. Just take a look in some of the rock pools on the island's shores whilst you're there! Watch out for Risso dolphins and harbour porpoises often seen round Bardsey!
Bardsey Island's history is a fasincating one - it's a spiritual place, and has long been a site for pilgrimage specifically for the Celtic Christian Church. There was a monastery on Bardsey as far back as the 6th century (you'd have to be pretty devout to live out here!). The abbey ruins you see today though date from the later 13th century abbey. A 30m lighthouse is also on the island. Built in 1821, it's the tallest square towered lighthouse in the UK.
Book Bardsey Island Ferry Trip, Tel: 44 (0) 8458 1136554 or 07814 128620. You can stay on Bardsey in a selection of self catering cottages owned by the trust. Check the Bardsey Island weblink right for details - the ultimate secluded retreat!
Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Wales' Oldest Art Gallery in Llanbedrog
Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Gallery is Wales' oldest art gallery, run by a Charitable Trust on the Lleyn Peninsula in northwest Wales. The venue was awarded the Gwynedd Business Award for Tourism in 2007 and attracts over 70,000 annual visitors.
It also houses a self-catering let that sleeps up to 12 people in the back annexe of the gallery along with an award winning tea room and craft shop.
Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, LL53 7TT. Tel. 01758 740 763.
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