Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sights & Activities
Rhayader Museum & Gallery
( 01597-810561;
www.carad.org.uk
; East St; adult/child £4/free; 10am-4pm Tue-Sun)
Focusing on local
identity, social history and life in Rhayader and the surrounding area, this small museum
uses historic artefacts, films and oral histories to explore everything from folk tales to
sheep farming.
MUSEUM
Gigrin Farm Red Kite
Feeding Station
( 01597-810 243;
www.gigrin.co.uk
;
South St; adult/child £4.50/2; 2pm Nov-Mar, 3pm Apr-Oct)
There's
been a dramatic Mid-Wales resurgence in the UK's threatened population of red kites. A
feeding program continues at the Gigrin Farm Red Kite Feeding Station, a working farm
on the A470 half a mile south of Rhayader town centre (or 1 mile from the Wye Valley
Walk). At 2pm (3pm during summer daylight-saving time) meat scraps from local
butchers and a local abattoir are spread on a field. Altogether anywhere from 12 to 500
kites may partake, though it's usually less than 20 at any one time. First come crows, then
ravens, then the acrobatically swooping kites - often mugging the crows to get the meat -
and later buzzards. You can watch from a wheelchair-accessible hide.
There's an interpretive centre with information on red kites and other local wildlife, re-
corded night-time footage of badgers, a camera overlooking the feeding site and marked
nature trails.
BIRDWATCHING
Clive Powell Mountain
Bike Centre
( 01597-811343;
www.clivepowell-mtb.co.uk
; West St; 9am-5.30pm, closed Thu)
This centre is oper-
ated by a former cycling champion and coach. You can hire a mountain/off-road bike here
(£20/15 per day, including helmet and puncture kit), and Powell runs a regular program of
'Dirty Weekends', all-inclusive mountain-biking weekends hitting trails around the Elan
Valley (from £176, minimum of five people).
MOUNTAIN BIKING
Sleeping
Wyeside
CAMPGROUND
£
