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Here in Swallow Falls in the water fall of Aflon Llugwy, you can follow a narrow,
tortuos part moving out of the rock and face with grey. fissured, threatening crags overhanging part of the route
on the one hand and a forbidding abyss clothed with stunted trees on the other. Spectacular and dramatic, this approach path
was at one time in the care of Betws-y-Coed council workmen who took pride in maintaining its condition. Unless there has
been a heavy rainfall the summer months do not always present the viewer with the most exhilarating aspect of this famous
waterfall - one needs a November or March flood when the water cascades over the dark, indented, weather-scarred rocks in
a foaming, spewing onrush of unrestrained energy. But whatever the season, this waterfall will attract a world-wide selection
of public to view it. In 1913 the Swallow Falls was given to the Betws-y-Coed council by the second Lord Ancaster.
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