Tregaron Festival of Harness Racing
One of the biggest prize race meetings of its kind in the UK, three days of flat-out trotting and pacing on a grass track in mid-Wales where the sport has deep roots, with sulkies rattling past the spectators at very close quarters.
A proudly Welsh drovers' market town punching well above its size thanks to Y Talbot, a nationally recognised pub-restaurant and inn that alone justifies the detour, set against a compact Georgian and Victorian stone square with Cors Caron's big-sky wetland just up the road.
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"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival
"A traditional North Ceredigion village show at the foot of Plynlimon with sheep shearing on a nearby farm at sunset, goats, poultry, cattle, horses and a large craft and produce tent where local bakers wage quiet war."
Talybont Show
"One of Wales's smallest and most cherished annual shows, held on the last Wednesday in August in the village where the great Welsh revivalist Daniel Rowland preached, with horse and pony classes and a garden and produce tent where the competition is taken very personally."
Llangeitho Village Show
"The Rhys Thomas James Pantyfedwen Eisteddfod, held over August Bank Holiday in a Ceredigion university town, with choral, poetry and prose competitions continuing a Welsh cultural tradition of centuries."
Lampeter Pantyfedwen Eisteddfod
"The whole of this painted Georgian harbour town tips into the streets on Bank Holiday Monday, with a carnival parade from Cadwgan Place, live music and the fishing harbour as a perfect backdrop."
Aberaeron Carnival
"The show at the heart of Welsh mountain farming and pony country on the vast Cors Caron bog, with classes for the rare Welsh Black cattle and the fiercely contested Welsh cobs that have given Tregaron its reputation since before the droving roads."
Tregaron Agricultural Show
"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"Teams of two mountain bikers tow a charioteer in a Roman-style chariot in a flat-out dash for the world title."
World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championship
✦ Weird and Wonderful"A peat bog trench in mid-Wales. A wetsuit. A snorkel. Two lengths. No conventional swimming strokes allowed. The world comes to watch."
Bog Snorkelling Championship
Villagly Award · Soggiest in the UK ✦ Weird and Wonderful"A mini triathlon that swaps clean water for a peat bog, sending you swimming, cycling and running through mud, ditches and hills."
Chapel Bogathlon
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Four days of self-guided walks through some of Britain's finest scenery, ending with a Blister Ball of live music and dancing."
Mid-Wales 4 Day Walking Festival
"Ploughmen from across Monmouthshire turn up to a rotating farm venue each October for their county match, a competition held in the border country between Wales and England where the hedged fields and red Hereford cattle still look much as they always have."
Monmouthshire Ploughing Match