Wales is approximately 242 kilometres from north to south. About two-thirds of the total population live in the South Wales coastal area, where the three biggest towns are located: Swansea, Cardiff and Newport.

The Welsh are very proud of their language and culture. These are best preserved in the north and west of the country, for in the south and east they have been more challenged by industrialization. The west coast, mid Wales and North Wales are wild and beautiful!

Although visitors don't need passports to cross the border from England into Wales they son realize that they are entering a country with its own distinct geography, culture, traditions and, of course, language.

Medieval Welsh folklore abounds in stories of heroes who leap on to bubbles without breaking them, of missionary saints who sail the seas on leaves these legends are the product of a land whose remote mountains, lakes, windswept cliffs and languid sands still have the power to unfetter the imagination.

There are more tangible remains of the past. The rocks of Anglesey are pre-Cambrian, the first to be formed more than 3000 million years ago as the molten earth began to harden at its crust. Worn by time and ages of slowly moving ice, Anglesey is today rather flat. It grows crops rears sheep, has an attractive coastline and good bathing and sailing facilities, and boasts a splendid view of Snowdonia.

The Welsh Massif is mainly plateau country with much moorland, well known for its cool and rainy climate. Settlements and farmlands are largely concentrated in the valleys and along the coast. The windy high plateaux have little use except as rough pasture for sheep, which are very numerous on the uplands. Sheep-grazing employs few men and the high plateaux of Wales are very sparsely populated. Settlements are usually small and are scattered as single farmsteads.