An incredible combination of dramatic landscape and history. If you love your history and heritage and culture. This tour will blow your mind. Add in a little physical walking, at the end of this tour, you'll be a cultural expert of wales mining and heritage history.
Highlights
9 hours
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
9 hours
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Free smiles and laughter
Local tour guide with years of local experience of snowdonia
Live audio of the fascinating local history throughout the tour,
16 seat comfortable minibus
Tips and gratitudes
Snacks
(optional) entrance into main mine area additional fee. Child/Free Junior £7.50 Adult £11
Meeting Points
Departure
Llandudno
Llandudno Train Station (Red bus stop directly outside main entrance)
Return
Items | Private Snowdonia's Industrial Heritage & Slate Trail Tour
Private Snowdonia's Industrial Heritage & Slate Trail Tour
Conwy Principal Area
About
An incredible combination of dramatic landscape and history. If you love your history and heritage and culture. This tour will blow your mind. Add in a little physical walking, at the end of this tour, you'll be a cultural expert of wales mining and heritage history.
Highlights
9 hours
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
9 hours
Offered in English
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Free smiles and laughter
Local tour guide with years of local experience of snowdonia
Live audio of the fascinating local history throughout the tour,
16 seat comfortable minibus
Tips and gratitudes
Snacks
(optional) entrance into main mine area additional fee. Child/Free Junior £7.50 Adult £11
Meeting Points
Departure
Llandudno
Llandudno Train Station (Red bus stop directly outside main entrance)
Return
Itinerary
1
Castell Conwy
We pass through the old castle town of Conwy. We will see the towering ancient castle and the beautiful Conwy estuary and historic village
2
Zip World Penrhyn Quarry
Our first stop is the dramatic Penrhyn Quarry. Here we see first hand the early beginnings of the slate industry, and how the modern era now uses these dramatic landscapes and lakes for the adrenaline and adventure industry.
30 minutes
3
Nant Ffrancon Pass
We drive through this glacial valley carved out during the last ice age. Here the mountains tower around us.
4
Llyn Ogwen
This spectacular driving route and views,and passing the famous lake, we reveal ancient myths and legends of this area and location.
5
Snowdonia-Eryri National Park
Snowdonias most iconic view without climbing the summit. Snowdonia viewpoint has a 360 panoramic spectacular photo opportunity
5 minutes
6
Sygun Copper Mine
Sygun Copper Mine is one of the wonders of Wales – a remarkable and impressive example of how our precious industrial heritage can be reclaimed, restored and transformed into an outstanding attraction. A self-guided audiovisual tours allow you to explore the old workings on foot. There are winding tunnels and large, colorful chambers, magnificent stalactite and stalagmite formations and copper ore veins which contain traces of gold, silver and other precious metals.
1 hour and 15 minutes
7
Aberglaslyn Pass
Another breathtaking drive down traditional snowdonia farmland, lakes and history surrounding us everywhere
8
Dorothea Quarry
Take a gentle 2 mile stroll around the disused quarry. There are many old buildings and ruins, tunnels and a Cornish Beam Engine to explore, as well as flooded mines and an insight to the history of slate mining in years gone by.
1 hour and 30 minutes
9
Dinorwig Slate Quarry
This place will literally blow your mind. The workings of men practically everywhere, the views, the now empty and disused old buildings and machinery left within. The old barracks where workers would live in freezing cramped conditions. This is a place where all wish to return.
1 hour and 10 minutes
10
National Slate Museum
Visit our Slate Museum. Set within some of the most spectacular scenery in North Wales . The slate industry was one of the main economic motors of Wales. Step back in time and immerse yourself in a variety of talks and demonstrations to give you a real insight into the hardships of past quarry life.