CARDIFF, Wales - Croeso (ʻO ia ka "Welcome!" ma Welsh) - Ma ka lā 4 a me ka 5 o Kepakemapa, 2014 Wales e hoʻokipa e pili ana i nā alakaʻi 60 mai ka honua holoʻokoʻa i ka 2014 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit. E mālama ʻia ka Summit ma ka Celtic Manor Resort ma Newport, aia he iwakālua mau minuke ma waho o ke kūlanakauhale nui o Welsh o Cardiff. ʻO kēia ka NATO Summit mua ma Wales a ʻo ia ka manawa mua e kipa aku ai kahi Pelekikena US noho i kēia ʻāina Celtic.
ʻO ka ʻoiaʻiʻo, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a me Wales e kahi helu kupanaha o nā loulou mōʻaukala liʻiliʻi i ʻike ʻia. Eia kekahi mau mea:
Wahi a ka moʻolelo, ua holo ʻo Prince Madog ab Owain Gwynedd i kahi i kapa ʻia ʻo Alabama i kēia manawa i ka makahiki 1170;
Ua kākau ʻo Thomas Jefferson ʻo Welsh-American i ka Hōʻike Kūʻokoʻa;
He ʻeiwa mau Peresidena ʻAmelika me nā kūpuna Welsh;
ʻOi aku ka nui o nā ʻAmelika me nā inoa Welsh ʻo Williams, Evans a me Jones ma mua o ka heluna kanaka o Wales (3 miliona);
Iconic Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (b. 1914 in Swansea) died in New York in 1953; www.dylanthomas100.org;
Ua kapa ʻia ke Kulanui ʻo Yale ma hope o Welshman Elihu Yale;
He mau kūpuna Welsh ko Hillary Rodham Clinton.
E hoʻokipa ʻo HRH The Prince of Wales i kahi hanana kūikawā no ka hui me nā malihini hanohano e like me ke Kuhina Nui ʻo David Cameron, ke Kuhina mua o Wales ʻo Carwyn Jones a me ke Kakauolelo Welsh Stephen Crabb. Hiki i ka Pelekikena Obama a me kona mau hoa hanohano ke manaʻo e leʻaleʻa i kahi meaʻai kūloko i hoʻomākaukau ʻia e Welsh Chef Stephen Terry i lanakila. ʻElua mau huaʻōlelo koʻikoʻi ka 'Fresh' a me ka 'local' i ka wā e kamaʻilio ai no ka meaʻai Welsh. A hōʻike ka ʻāina ʻokoʻa o Wales i ka hou, ka maikaʻi a me nā ʻano like ʻole o kāna huahana. Hiki i ka malihini i Wales ke ho'āʻo i ka meaʻai a Chef Terry ma The Hardwick, kokoke i Abergavenny.
He ʻāina ʻekolu miliona me ka mōʻaukala 30,000 mau makahiki, ʻike ʻia ʻo Wales he ʻāina hoʻokalakupua o nā moʻolelo epic, ka moʻolelo Arthurian a me ke mele; he ʻāina o nā haku mele, nā mea hoʻokani a me nā mea noʻonoʻo mua (ʻo ka microphone, ka wahie cell, ka hōʻailona helu makemakika a me ka pia canned nā mea hou Welsh). Ua hōʻike ʻo Wales iā ia iho he alakaʻi honua ma nā hanauna me nā hana i hauʻoli i nā malihini i kēia lā:
I ka makahiki 1927, ua wehe ʻia ka National Museum Cardiff a aia kēia manawa i kahi hōʻiliʻili eclectic, e komo pū ana ka lua o ka ʻohi kiʻi impressionist nui loa o ka honua.
Me ka wehe ʻana o The Wales Coast Path i ka makahiki 2012, ua lilo ʻo Wales i ʻāina mua ma ka honua me kahi ākea hiki ke hele.
Ma ka ʻaoʻao komohana o Mid-Wales, ʻo ka Brecon Beacons National Park kekahi o ʻewalu wale nō 'Dark Sky Reserves' ma ka honua.
Ua ʻike ʻia ʻo Llanwrtyd Wells no nā ʻumi makahiki ʻo ia ka 'capital of quirk' ma Wales. I kēlā me kēia kauwela ke kūlanakauhale - aia ma ke awāwa mālie ma ka ʻaoʻao o nā mauna ʻo Cambrian - hoʻokipa i kāna mau hanana ʻōmaʻomaʻo makahiki - kahi e hōʻike ai nā mea hoʻokūkū o ka honua i ko lākou akamai i ka bog snorkeling, ma ke kāne vs lio marathon a me nā hoʻokūkū ʻē aʻe he nui.
