Stonehenge

Tour Operator	The Stonehenge Organisation
Address	Stonehenge
Admissions	Adults £5.00, Children £2.50
Phone	01980 620 304
Website	www.stonehenge.org.uk

If you have more then a couple days to spend in London, you owe it to yourself to checkout Stonehenge, England’s most important prehistoric monument. It takes about 2 hours to get to Stonehenge from London. Trains depart frequently from London’s Waterloo Station to nearby Salisbury. Alternatively, you can catch a bus from Victoria Station. Once you get to Salisbury, you’ll need to take a Wilts & Durset bus to Stonehenge, which takes about 30 minutes.

The pillars that makeup Stonehenge are surrounded by a rope that you need to stay behind. The surrounding walkway provides an unobstructed view of the mysterious creation. Great for photos. You’ll have to pay a few pounds to enter the grounds but with that tourists are provided with a headset for the free audio tour, which is very insightfull. Touring stonehenge takes at least a couple hours.

A bit north is the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady). It took two centuries (13th-15th) to build this spectacular church with its spire that reaches towards the heavens. The Church of Our Lady contains Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child in addition to a number of other masterpieces.

If you’d like to turn your excursion into a day trip, Salisbury is a great place to take a break. Further, you can take a stroll past the Salisbury Cathedral, Britain’s finest example of early English style architecture. You’ll also find tons of charming restaurants, great for enjoying a filling lunch and conversing about the eon’s worth of history that you just absorbed.