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Swansea
The Gower is only a very short drive from Swansea which offers good shopping, fine restaurants, sports and leisure facilities, and theatres and cinemas.
Swansea Bay is also a very attractive area with long sandy beaches which lead from the City centre out to Mumbles and the Gower.
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 Llanelli
The other side of the Estuary lies Llanelli. This once major steel town still boasts a steel mill, but the former docklands area has been transformed with the Creation of the Millennium Coastal Path.
 In South Llanelli a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Centre has been developed at Penclacwydd (translated as the hill of the gander) covering some 200 acres of salt marshes part of which is zoned as a site of special scientific interest. It attracts rare birds in an area already recognised to be of international importance for wading birds. The centre has walks, secluded hides, and a Visitors Centre.
To the west lies Carmarthen Bay, a superb mix of seashore, woodland and rolling countryside together with the historic town of Kidwelly with its ancient castle. You will also find the Pembrey Peninsula, a vast extent of breach, dunes and forest. This area offers the tourist a number of facilities including Burry Port harbour, but the major attraction is Pembrey Country Park, which attracts over 300,000 people a year to enjoy the peace and tranquillity of Pembrey forest and the seven miles of Cefn Sidan beach, which translated means literally "silk back". It is a superb seaside country park offering a magnificent beach, woodland, picnic areas, a dry ski-slope, mini-railway, putting green, a Visitors Centre, and a restaurant, together with ample car parking.
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