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Great Britain

there are 14 nationalparks in great britain:

• Brecon Beacons
• Pembrokeshire Coast
• Cairngorms
• Dartmoor
• Exmoor
• Lake District
• Loch Lomond and The Trossachs
• New Forest
• Norfolk Broads
• North York Moors
• Northumberland
• Peak District
• Snowdonia
• South Downs
• Yorkshire Dales

Brecon Beacons (Welsh: Bannau Brycheiniog)

The Brecon Beacons is the 2nd largest park in GB, it`s situated in mid-Wales and one of Great Britains's most beautiful national parks. There are 7 million visitors per year and it covers an area of 1347 square kilometres. It was disagnated as a national park in 1957 and in October 2005 it officialy became UNESCO Global Geopark recognition for the Fforest Fawr Geopark.

The national park is well-known for it`s amazing scenery. There are the rolling hills of Black Mointan, the woodlands, the waterfalls , the highmoor but also many lakes and rivers. Brecon Beacons contains spectacular upland formations, as you can see on the left picture. Because of the different patterns of limestone and grit erosion which dominate the area,waterfalls and caves have formed over the countries. The activities you can do there are many-sided: walking, cycling, horse riding, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing, fishing, rock climbing, caving or just enjoying the amazing countrysize.

Ystradfellti Sgwd - One of the many beautiful waterfalls in the National Park

Quellen: www.breconbeacons.org
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons

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