It feels like everyone in south Wales has been up Pen y Fan, taken a picture of themselves at the top and shared it on Instagram. In 2021, the popular hiking route was ranked the most picturesque rural walk in the UK with an impressive 22,437 Instagram hashtags per kilometre.
Pen y Fan roughly translates to "top spot" from Welsh to English, and right at the top you can pose with The National Trust cairn which says "886m". A quick glance at the #penyfan hashtag on Instagram shows thousands of pictures posing with the iconic cairn, as well as sunrises and sunsets, dogs posing at the top and even rare cloud inversions.
Good Friday is a particularly busy day for Pen y Fan, with people all over south Wales and further afield making the most of the hike and the breathtaking views it has to offer. And Good Friday this year was no exception, with the spring sunshine making Pen-y-Fan an even more compelling invite.
