Your Guide to Going to Stonehenge. How to get there and details of the available tours. Stonehenge Address Salisbury, Wiltshire SP4 7DE, A344 Road. www.Visit-Stonehenge.com The Comprehensive Guide for Stonehenge. We have listed all the main tour providers together with all the tours they provide to assist you in your choice.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Anderson Tours : Tour Details
Anderson Tours : Tour Details:
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Take our Stonehenge, Glastonbury & Avebury tour and experience the history and mystery of some of the most famous pilgrimage sites in the South of England. From Neolithic Stone Circles to the ancient Glastonbury Abbey (King Arthur and Queen Guinevere’s supposed final resting place).
You will visit the ancient Stone Circles of Stonehenge & Avebury which have both been drawing visitors for over 5000 years! We also take you through the history of King Arthur and visit famous ruins of Glastonbury Abbey, with time to explore the nearby village.
Our stop in Avebury gives you plenty of time to enjoy this ancient site’s atmosphere & perhaps have a pint at the famous Red Lion Pub located in the centre of Avebury Stone Circle. The Red Lion is on the Top Ten list of the most haunted pubs in England!
Read more about this tour and the sites visited below:
Includes:
· No More than 15 passengers,
· Return luxury mini coach travel
· Visit & entrance to Stonehenge
· Visit to Avebury Stone Circle
· Explore King Arthur's Avalon & visit the ancient ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
· Free time in Glastonbury Village
· Plus Tour Manager
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Drenched druids! Summer solstice at Stonehenge is the soggiest in years as thousands welcome the sun at prehistoric monument
- Around 14,500 people braved the miserable weather to welcome the dawn at Wiltshire landmark
Summer's here! Visitors to Stonehenge wrapped up in waterproof ponchos to celebrate the summer solstice
Tight squeeze: The summer solstice annually attracts an eclectic mix of druids, revellers and sun worshippers to Stonehenge
Damp: People gather to mark this year's summer solstice at Stonehenge in Wiltshire
No damp squib: Thousands of people marked the summer solstice at Stonehenge despite the celebration being one of the wettest in years
Special place: Druids, a pagan religious order dating back to Celtic Britain, believe Stonehenge was a centre of spiritualism more than 2,000 years ago
Service: Rollo Maughfling, the Archdruid of Glastonbury and Stonehenge, conducts a solstice celebration
Getting close to nature: A woman hugs a stone at Stonehenge
Sunseeker: Georgina Kernnard took part in summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge
Annual pilgrimage: The event draws together druids, revellers, hippies, 'new age' travellers and others simply wishing to experience the mystical annual gathering
Until next time: A man playing an accordion beneath a costume of torn fabrics leaves Stonehenge
Festivities: A reveller dances on a stone at ancient Stonehenge
Colourful characters: A man blew a horn at the summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge (left), while a woman at Avebury stone circle painted her face
Hello pilgrim: Gleu Sunpooja, from Brazil, was among thousands celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge - in spite of the wet weather
Atmospheric: Around 14,500 people gathered at Stonehenge for this year's summer solstice
Celebrations: Music is played and torches held aloft as revelers mark the summer solstice at the Avebury stone circle in Wiltshire
Fired up: Torches were held aloft as revellers saw in the summer solstice at Avebury stone circle
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