I’m really sad to say that Stonehenge is not worth visiting at all. Firstly because Stonehenge is located on a tiny little hill between two major highways. Yeah, there goes the atmosphere. Secondly, it has a really wide circle of forbidden-to-enter-area around it (presumably to keep every eejit from stealing bits of it etc), so you can’t really even look at it properly. And there are tons and tons and TONS of tourists, every single hour of every single day. And of course you enter the hill-site through this little tunnel, which has a rubbish merchandise shop at the beginning. I mean jeez, cups and baseball caps and pens and all the rest of touristy shite nobody really needs. ARGH. I always thought Stonehenge was this “bastion of the pagan world”, something majestic and beautiful to behold and all that new agey jazz, but nowadays it’s just as commercialised as your average rid-stupid-tourists-of-their-cash-type place. But of course, I did visit three years ago, so maybe they’ve, y’know, built extra circle roads and gotten rid of the awful merchandise… Tsh, yeah right. So if you want to keep imagining Stonehenge as something beautiful & pagan and all that, don’t visit. Ever.
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I was dissapointed too...
I went two years ago and things haven’t changed. Sadly.
Major Bummer
Yes, I too invisioned stonehedge to be this truly magikal place where time stands still and is in the middle of nature not a freeway and with all sorts of man made stuff surrounding it!!!!!!!!Couldn’t the British have declared it a National park to prevserve it as something anient and unexplainable???? I still want to see it though!!! BUT thanks for the warning I would have been majorily crushed without the details!!! I had this great poster of Stone Hedge with a partially elisped moon and I guess that’s what I hoped it would be.
I didn’t really see a whole lot of merchandise except for one shop. Not even any in the tunnel or anything. And there were hardly any tourists when I went, which was this past March.



