Stonehenge

Panoramic view of the Stonehenge area

After a second try at finding the right road out of Salisbury, we were on our way toward Stonehenge. Neither of us had strong desires to visit Stonehenge, but when you're in England (and Erika had never seen it when she'd been in the UK before), you've got to at least see it!

The amazing stonework which helped keep the stones together

When we decided that we'd actually pay admission to get closer than the road. Buy purchasing an English Heritage Pass we received discounts at Stonehenge as well as several other places we were planning to go, so we knew we'd get our purchase price back in savings. The audio guides for Stonehenge were really well done, even though there's a lot of unknowns about the stone circle.

Burial mound at Stonehenge

We had both heard that you can't get very close, but at the closest point I don't think we were more than 50 feet from the stones. It's not like being able to climb on them, but it's better than we had heard.

Many people are really amazed by the idea of people thousands of years ago cutting these stones and hauling them over 200 miles from Wales, but we found ourselves more perplexed by the questions of: Who were these people who built Stonehenge? Why did they build it?And most of all, where did they go?

-J