UK part I : Stonehenge & Roman Baths

April 6th, 2012.

Stonehenge and Roman Baths. 

Accompanied by a talkative yet cheerful female tourist guide, she explained to us history bout everything we saw, started from the bus station till we reached Stonehenge. And FYI, there's a private hospital near the London Victoria Coach Station that has bullet proof window. Wohooo..

Oh yeah. We arrived at Stonehenge around 10++ am. Some info as regard Stonehenge:

• Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) west of Amesbury and 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury.
• One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

• There a lot of stories about Stonehenge. And one of them is : Stonehenge was a place of burial from its beginning to its zenith in the mid third millennium B.C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead.

  — Mike Parker Pearson

Aihh... I can't copy all the Stonehenge histories here. If you want to know more bout it, feel free to read it here, Stonehenge wikipedia =p

Now, lets enjoy the pictures

Stonehenge, an English Heritage

It just few standing stones only. And oh yes, a group of lambs around it =p

Tee hee

A lot of tourist come here every day in every year just to visit this stone, including us -_-

Yippeee

Another side of stone with stone's visitors

s.t.o.n.e

:D

The Heelstone

• The Heel Stone lies just outside the main entrance to the henge, next to the present A344 road. It is a rough stone, 16 feet (4.9 m) above ground, leaning inwards towards the stone circle. It has been known by many names in the past, including "Friar's Heel" and "Sun-stone". Today it is uniformly referred to as the Heel Stone or Heelstone. When one stands within Stonehenge, facing north-east through the entrance towards the heel stone, one sees the sun rise above the stone at summer solstice.

Around 11.15am, we headed to Baths. Roman Baths.

• The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.^[11]

On our way down to Bath. Pig Farm. Very large pig farm

"You guys should be here at quarter pas 4 if American they would say 4 fifteen."

Such a long queue

It's not the 'Oman' Baths people. It's actually the Roman Baths. Missing the R word -_-

We didn't even know that it was a pay entry to Roman Baths. We only realized it when we saw a list of price on the receptionist table -_-"

Inside the Roman Baths.

One of ze baths

Peace yaw

The main baths. Perhaps :p It's green in color. The water is greennnnnnnnnn.

Captured from above

In 'Venice'

This place is looks like Venice aye?

Another picture of 'Venice' :D

:')

FOOD SECTION :

It was hard to find halal restaurant in non Islamic country but we managed to find it one. Tee Heee.. It was a Thai restaurant but also served halal foods. Alhamdulillah.

Thai restaurant.

Me order on the left. Atiyya ate beef because she told me that beef in London was very expensive. 6pounds/kg.!

Me and the food yaww

Tiz fudges were more expensive than the one in Belgium. Grrr..

And... yeahhh. That's all bout Stonehenge and Baths. There are nothing right? Hahhaha.. Only stones and baths. But because both are one of tourist's attraction in UK, that's why I went there. :')


Till next guys.


byebye.