Your morning will start with a visit to Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, home to the "Stonehenge Builder's" village. Then you'll travel a short distance to Stonehenge with a leisurely-paced walk through the landscape, discussing the Stonehenge Cursus, Bronze Age burial mounds and Stonehenge Avenue. The morning will finish at Stonehenge with a guided walk around the stone circle. Your archaeologist guide will bring to life this enigmatic, ancient and mysterious monument.
At noon you'll arrive at Bath, the deliberate creation of a unified and beautiful city. You'll have two hours to explore the Palladian architecture, Roman Baths and Bath Abbey. Home to Jane Austin, Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas Gainsborough and Mary Shelley. The tour in Bath concludes with a coach tour of the most impressive examples of Palladian architecture, visiting the Assembly Rooms, King’s Circus, Queens Square and the Royal Crescent.
Scenic roads will be taken (when possible) while traveling between sites. The meandering road between Bath and Avebury is no exception with beautiful views, quaint country villages, the Cherhill White Horse (a hill figure on Cherhill Down, over 200 years old) and Shockerwick House (a Palladian Georgian historical house).
Your afternoon will be spent at the Avebury World Heritage Landscape. You'll visit Silbury Hill, the largest man-made hill in prehistoric Europe. Enter the 5,500-year-old burial chamber of West Kennet Long Barrow, a sacred space originally reserved only for ritual specialists and the dead.
Finish off your day by visiting the largest stone circle in Europe at Avebury, with its beautiful medieval village situated inside. As John Aubrey in the 1600's notes "[Avebury] does as much exceed in greatness the so renowned Stonehenge as a Cathedral doeth a parish church." Avebury also boasts to be the only prehistoric stone circle with a pub at its center - The Red Lion - serving Avebury Well Water, a local ale only available in Avebury.
Stonehenge admission
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