The Magic of Life Butterfly House, Ponterwyd

Name: The Magic of Life Butterfly House
Address: Ponterwyd, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Ponterwyd

Top attraction, Zoo

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The Magic of Life Butterfly House, Ponterwyd

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The Magic of Life Butterfly House is an all-weather butterfly zoo visitor attraction near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion in Wales. It was opened in July 2002 by rain forest conservationist, the Earl of Cranbrook. ()

Coordinates: 52°23'28"N, 3°53'35"W

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Ponterwyd United Kingdom

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The Magic of Life Butterfly House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Plynlimon, Pen y Garn, The Silver Mountain Experience, Mynach Falls.

7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Plynlimon
179 min walk • Pumlumon is the highest point of the Cambrian Mountains in Wales, and the highest point in Mid Wales. It is a massif that dominates the surrounding countryside and is the highest point of Ceredigion.
5.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen y Garn
138 min walk • Pen y Garn is a mountain in the Cambrian Mountains, Mid Wales standing at 611 metres above sea level. Pen y Garn tops a 500–600 m high plateau, which includes the controversial Cefn Croes wind farm.
1.8 miNE
52°24'42"N • 3°51'56"W
The Silver Mountain Experience, Ponterwyd
47 min walk • Mine, Museum
2.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Mynach Falls, Devil's Bridge
53 min walk • Mynach Falls is a waterfall near Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. It occurs where the River Mynach drops 90 metres in 5 steps down a steep and narrow ravine before it meets the River Rheidol.
6.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Dyfi Biosphere
170 min walk • The Dyfi Biosphere is situated at the coast of south-central Wales in the estuary of the River Dyfi, and is a biosphere reserve representative of salt marshes and estuarine systems in the west of the United Kingdom. The estuary forms one of the most important wildfowl and shorebird centres in Wales and also comprises a Ramsar site.
3.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Hafod Uchtryd
83 min walk • Hafod Uchtryd is a wooded and landscaped estate in the Ystwyth valley in Ceredigion, Wales. Near Devil's Bridge, Cwmystwyth and Pont-rhyd-y-groes, it is off the B4574 road.
1.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Coed Rheidol National Nature Reserve, Devil's Bridge
37 min walk • Coed Rheidol National Nature Reserve forms part of the long ribbon of woodland adjoining the Afon Mynach and Afon Rheidol around the lower slopes of hills near Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion.
5.8 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Nant-y-moch Reservoir
148 min walk • Nant-y-moch Reservoir Welsh pronunciation is situated in the Cambrian Mountains in northern Ceredigion, Wales, near Pumlumon. The reservoir which flooded a part of the valley of the River Rheidol and its headwaters derives its name from a stream, the Nant-y-moch, which formerly flowed into the River Rheidol at this spot.
5.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Y Garn
143 min walk • Y Garn is a subsidiary summit of Pen Pumlumon Fawr and the fourth highest peak on the Plynlimon massif, a part of the Cambrian Mountains in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
3.3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Cwmsymlog
86 min walk • Cwmsymlog is a short valley, sheltering a hamlet of the same name, in Ceredigion, in the west of Wales. Once an important mining area, but the mining slowly declined and finally came to an end in 1901.
4.4 miNW
Forts and castles
Ystrad Peithyll
112 min walk • Ystrad Peithyll is the remains of a small 12th-century motte-and-bailey castle on the River Peithyll, near Penrhyn-coch in northern Ceredigion, Wales. The castle was attacked and destroyed by followers of Gruffydd ap Rhys in the early 12th century.