More Wales: on the way to Devil's Bridge

[urbpan]

We found a feature called "Devil's Bridge" on the road map, and struck out to find it. (I've been to another place called Devil's Bridge, in Antigua, strangely enough, though I haven't been to the ones in France, Arizona, or Armenia.) On the way we found some pretty high country, complete with sheep.






As we got closer, the landscape was still beautiful, but got considerably creepier.




Finally we found the place, there were two ways to go so my brother and father went one way, and I went the other. They were to photograph the bridge itself, I was to go down the 600 steps to the gorge floor to see the waterfall.


A stairway with a handrail had been carved into the forest, and the forest was taking it back.


An improbably steep and slick set of stairs called "Jacob's Ladder" was hewn from the bare slate.


It was around this point that I was glad my father had decided to go a different way.


A tiny metal bridge (not the Devil's) crossed the river at the bottom.


Far from feeling sinister, this place felt like home to me. It reminded me of Forest Park in Portland Oregon. There's no place I like more than the woods, enveloped by the quiet trees thick with moss.

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Spirited Away? That lion with the moss reminds me of the bit where they're lost in a creepy forest near the start.

I would definitely break my arse if I attempted those stairs.

Great

[greenmonk (from livejournal.com)]

Great Photos as always! This place is gorgeous!

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I was at Devil's Bridge in France yesterday (south of Foix). It wasn't sinister, either. Apparently, it had to be rebuilt many times (I think it's 13th century), because it kept falling down. Instead of concluding that their bridge-building skills left something to be desired, they decided that the devil was knocking it down. But the last one seems to have worked, because it's still there.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Bizarre coincidence!

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Ah, so glad to see the road not traveled (by me and Doc). Thanks.