Its a Buddhist retreat recommended in the Guardian Unlimited by Tom of Lonely Planet. Some time ago it was outed as fake by the Mail on Sunday.
www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.htmlin_article_id=457515&in_page_id=1879&ICO=FEMAIL&ICL=TOPART
Since then the Buddhist Press has taken up the cause, just google 'Edo Shonin' or 'Pine Forest Sangha' for more reasons why you do not want to go there

Just google the name 'Edo Shonin', the spiritual director of Pine Forest Sangha and then read in amazement. The story is really wierd and interesting but holiday elsewhere

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Probably the most enjoyable way to spend a rainy weekday evening in Blaenau Ffestiniog. The choir rehearses once a week at 7.30pm in a secondary school and visitors are welcome to come and listen, especially if they ring first. Entirely in Welsh.

www.corybrythoniaid.com/

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Cwmorthin is an abandoned slate mining village just above the village of Tanygrisiau, and close to Blaenau Ffestiniog - both have railway stations, the latter on the mainline. The piles of slate and empty cottages create a calm but slightly eerie effect. In the sunshine, especially just after rain, it's hard to take a bad photograph there. Follow the path along the left hand side of the lake at Cwmorthin and you'll find a roofless stone chapel.

www.darkhorse.co.uk/cwmorthinpics.html

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Charming steam train that chuffs from Blaenau to Porthmadog and back on most days during the spring and summer. The hike between Tanygrisiau, Dduallt and Tan-y-Bwlch stations is particularly beautiful. The train traces a loop around a lake to reach Dduallt, and waiting at the halt feels a bit like standing in the middle of a giant train set.

www.ffestiniograilway.co.uk/

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