This was the first day of my 4 day Cornwall tour with Haffis Adventures

Ive always wanted to see Stonehendge so this was my first time and I was so excited!

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones. Inside is a ring of smaller bluestones. Inside these are free-standing trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds).

Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was constructed from around 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.

LOCATION

https://goo.gl/maps/rgHMwfHFgUwVfBfp8

We got to Stonehenge and paid 4.10 pounds entry fee to get in and take a look around

There were plenty of American tourists with stripey shirts and huge cameras

We could get fairly close to the stones and I walked around had a look

The ramp up via under the ground tunnel which passes under the highway