Day 2 - Breakfast. Introduction to all that is Glastonbury. Visit Chalice Well and experience the healing waters there. Opening ceremony at the Well. Glastonbury is the legendary Ancient Avalon. The legends surrounding Glastonbury have drawn visitors for centuries. It has long been the center of the legend of the Goddess, the Holy Grail, King Arthur & Guinevere and early Christian myths. It also is located on the powerful ley line (energy line) called the “Michael Line”. Also experience Glastonbury Abbey (legendary burial place of King Arthur & Guinevere & home to Joseph of Arimathea’s Holy Thorn tree), Chalice Well & Gardens (legendary hiding place of Holy Grail), the beautiful Tor (legendary Avalon), shopping, bookstores etc. This is definitely one of the centers of consciousness in Britain. There is a lot going on here with workshops, shops, holistic/metaphysical practitioners, etc. There are lots of shops with crystals, books, etc. This area has so much to do & see.
Day 3 Free Day in Glastonbury to visit sites we didn’t visit on Day 2 and return to places you especially loved. Time for shopping and exploring.
Day 4 - Travel to Tintagel, on a wild stretch of the Atlantic coast, is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur. The 13th-century ruins of Tintagel castle stand 300 feet above the sea on a rocky cliff. Overnight in Tintagel area.
Day 5 - More time in the Tintagel area visiting Boscastle &. St. Nectan's Glen & Waterfall & Rocky Valley Waterfall. Optional visit, if you desire, to the Witch Museum in Boscastle.
Continue on this afternoon to Cornwall and the area called Penwith, near lands end. Penwith is home to a huge number of ancient sites, artist villages and beautiful beaches.
Day 6, 7, 8, 9 - For the next 4 days visit St. Ives, the lovely seaside fishing village, famous for its sandy beaches and art colony. It is a village of narrow streets & quaint cottages with wonderful potters, weavers, artists & other craftspeople. We also will visit St. Michael's Mount - Mysterious mount that rises 250 feet from the sea - topped by a partially medieval, partially 17th-century castle - only reached by a causeway at low tide. This area is filled with Ancient Sites dating back at least 5000 years - hundreds of quartz-studdded granite standing stones, sacred wells, stone circles, chambered barrows & underground 'fogous' were erected during the following 3000 year period. We will visit Merry Maidens Stone Circle, Boscawen-Un Stone Circle, Men An Tol, Lanyon Quoit, Holy Wells at Sancreed & Madron, Lands End & beautiful beaches.
Day 10 - Travel back to the east into England and to the Avebury & Stonehenge area for overnight next 2 nights. Day 11 - On these days we will visit magnificent Stonehenge - we are usually granted special permission to go alone within the center of the circle before or after hours and will do this if at all possible (most visitors are not able to do this). We also will visit Avebury - the LARGEST stone circle in the world - the area includes Ancient Silbury Hill, West Kennett Long Barrow, Avebury & Alton-Barnes White Horse. This area is the center of the crop circle phenomena but they all would have been harvested by this time in August. We will explore the possible explanation and reason for these sites & crop formations & have extra time to experience the energy of them.
Day 12 Trips ends - to London Heathrow airport for flights home or on your own.