Glangwenlais Farm

To explore under your own steam, grab the walking boots or bikes and make for the trails in the Bannau Brycheiniog (aka Brecon Beacons) National Park (25 minutes’ drive). Ancient history is all around in the national park too; you can inspect the ornate markings on the standing stone at Garn Goch Y Gaer Fawr (half an hour), or have a nose around the ancient Bronze Age burial cairn at Tair Carn Uchaf (40 minutes). If historic houses are your thing, have a meander around the medieval barns and towers at Tretower Court and Castle (55 minutes), or clamber up to the romantic ruins of 13th-century Castell Carreg Cennen (40 minutes) – an easy and fun walk for the kids. Talking of the kids, they’ll most probably enjoy the dinosaur park and model Iron Age settlement at the National Showcaves Centre for Wales (45 minutes), or having a snoop around the Norman Foster-built glasshouse stuffed with tropical plants at the National Botanic Garden of Wales (40 minutes). They’ll likely enjoy feeding the raptors at the Red Kite Feeding Station at Llanddeusant (25 minutes) too.