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Crop Circles
and Sacred Sites Tour
July tour
19 - 28th July 2008
(10 days / 9 nights)
Itinerary
Day 1, Saturday 19th
Your tour guides, Glenn and Cameron Broughton, will meet the group at Heathrow airport after your overnight flight. We will travel in comfortable minibuses to our hotel in Devizes, Wiltshire. You will have time to rest up, or take lunch and then explore this charming market town.
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There is a good range of shops, cafes, restaurants, markets and pubs readily available as our hotel is situated right in the centre of town in the old marketplace.
The hills and fields around the town are a popular venue for crop circles as is the whole countryside stretching east. The majority of crop circles each year occur within 15 miles of our hotel.
Welcome orientation and introductions followed by dinner. Dinner at the hotel.
Day 2, Sunday 20th
After a briefing session we will go into our first crop circles. You've seen the pictures and now is your chance to personally experience them first-hand. Your expert tour guides, who have been into many formations over the last ten years, will show you what to look for and how to dowse for any energies present.
At various times during the tour we will be joined by some of the top crop circle researchers who will share their views, knowledge and expertise with us. What better way to learn all about this amazing phenomenon than by being in the circles in the fields and having experts on hand to guide you.
Free-choice dinner (not included in tour price).
Day 3, Monday 21st
This day within the Avebury Landscape Temple starts by visiting the five thousand year old Silbury Hill. We will also visit West Kennet Long Barrow, an underground chamber used both as a tomb and a place of initiation, which has wonderful acoustics. Knoll Down, a tranquil sacred grove of trees, was once connected to Avebury by an avenue of stones stretching for over a mile in length.
In the afternoon we will visit any crop circles situated close by the ancient sacred sites we have visited.
Dinner at hotel.
Day 4, Tuesday 22nd
Today we spend in the heart of crop circle country. Just six miles from our hotel is Avebury, the heart center of megalithic Britain. Here, within the largest stone circle in the world, we find the remains of two former stone circles, one solar and one lunar. All the sacred sites in this area centre on Avebury, including Stonehenge some twenty miles distant. Powerful earth energy currents course through this landscape and this may be one reason why the majority of crop circles occur within a 10-mile radius of Avebury.
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We will explore some of the amazing sacred sites and their associated crop circles in this remarkable landscape temple.
We will have a free afternoon in Devizes.
Free-choice dinner (not included in tour price).
Day 5, Wednesday 23rd
Other ancient sacred sites in the area include Merlin's Mound, Morgan's Hill, Windmill Hill and The Sanctuary. Our itinerary will be flexible according to the locations of new crop circles and which sites are nearby.
Dinner at a local restaurant included in tour price.
Day 6, Thursday 24th
A full day of visits to crop circles and sacred sites.
Free-choice dinner (not included in tour price).
Day 7, Friday 25th
We start the day with an early morning visit to Stonehenge. We have arranged for the group to have private special access into the stones of the world's most famous sacred site. Touch the huge megaliths which have stood in magnificent isolation on the windswept Salisbury Plain for thousands of years, feel the pulse of powerful earth energy currents coursing beneath your feet, imagine the ceremonies which have been performed by robed priests over aeons of time or just sit in quiet meditation. This is a rare opportunity to truly experience a site revered by countless generations.
We then have breakfast in nearby Amesbury and a chance to swap Stonehenge stories. Then, for those who choose the helicopter flight, we're off to the local airfield for a flight above the Circlemakers' exquisite cosmic works of art in small chartered helicopters - truly the high spot of the tour for many! Those not flying will be taken for personal time in Salisbury.
Then we move hotel to Wells in Somerset. Wells is built around a lively market-place with a wishing-well fountain in the market square. Water from the city's wells and springs runs in open gullies by the sidewalks in many of the central streets. This splendid medieval city is one of England's best-kept secrets!
Out of the door of our hotel, across Cathedral Green, is the city's magnificent 800-year-old English gothic Wells Cathedral. The other side of the cathedral is the Vicar's Close, the oldest complete medieval street in all of Europe, and still housing boys of the cathedral choir as it has done since it was built. Standing majestically next door is the Bishop's Palace, a 700-year-old occupied palace complete with a moat and a drawbridge, home to families of swans - an ideal location for a peaceful evening stroll.
Dinner at hotel.
Day 8, Saturday 26th
We will spend the next two days visiting the sites of Glastonbury and attending Glastonbury Symposium - the longest running crop circle conference in England. The Symposium is held in the town hall right in the middle of town making it easy for you to attend the presentations of your choice and explore all that Glastonbury has to offer. The town is full of unusual shops selling everything from candles and incense to colourful clogs and Goddess statues.
Rising dramatically from the flat land of the surrounding Somerset Levels, the huge natural mound of Glastonbury Tor, surmounted by St. Michael's Tower, has been a beacon of spirituality since pagan times and still acts as a magnet for people of all beliefs. Plus the views from the top are spectacular!
We visit the beautiful and tranquil gardens of Chalice Well, one of the true healing places in this land where you are encouraged to drink from the holy well. Some believe that the Holy Grail is hidden within the wellhead.
Glastonbury Abbey, once the largest and most powerful abbey in all of Britain, contains a grave in the centre of the Abbey ruins that is reputed to have been the resting place of King Arthur and Guinevere. It is no coincidence that the dual energy currents of England's most famous leyline cross at the site of the high altar. The abbey is located next door to the Symposium.
Free-choice dinner in Glastonbury (not included in tour price).
Day 9, Sunday 27th
As Saturday.
Farewell dinner at hotel.
Day 10, Monday 28th
Leave hotel to drive to Heathrow for return flight home.
All activities are, of course, optional and so there is scope in the itinerary to take extra free personal time.
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