Snowdonia and North Wales

Although Snowdonia is seen as the most wonderful landscape in North Wales there are many others including Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty such as the Llyn Peninsula with some of the best beaches Wales has to offer, the Isle of Anglesey with its 125 miles of wonderfully scenic coastal path encircling the whole island whilst in the east there's the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley, the scenic gateway to the region.

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Llyn Cwynch - Snowdonia

Llyn Cwynch is near Dolgellau and is part of the Nannau Estate and folklore says that the serpent who lived in the lake hunted both humans and animals, which it killed with its stare before eating them. However, whilst it was sleeping it was found by a shepherd who beheaded it. There is a cairn that commemorates the place of its death called Carnedd-y-Wibber (the Cairn of the Women's-milk-fed Serpent).

National Park llyn freshwater trees reflections mist gate landscape