Hi guys welcome to another episode of ultimate bucket list and on today's show
I'm starting front of a bunch of rocks
obviously this is just a bunch of rocks this is the world-famous Stonehenge now
I know what you can ask me why is this here
and to be honest don't know in fact actually nobody knows even if you go to
the business center they pretty much hypothesize as to why they built this
place to be honest nobody really knows all you do have to know is that this was
built pre machined some pre anything so getting this up here with just manpower
pretty incredible stuff now I know the first question you're gonna ask me is
can I go ahead and touch the stones sadly not I don't know if you can see
this but there's a rope pretty much all the way around the perimeter which stops
people like myself climbing up and hugging the stones and damaging the
stones and whatever there are certain tours that you can go on whereby you can
actually access this place outside of ours obviously in a supervised tour
group and you can actually go ahead and walk amongst the stones obviously I'm
not in that group I can't afford stuff like that so here I am with everyone
else you can actually pay a tour group and they'll actually bring you here on a
tour bus and you might get access to the stones but in general the best thing to
do is to actually drive here and go to the Visitor Center now the Visitor
Center is actually about a mile and a half away from this thing here so what
they do after you pay for the price of admission is that they sling you on a
shuttle bus initial bus can be pretty busy right now
it's Saturday morning and I was literally one of the first people in the
queue and I don't know if you could see in the
background there but there's hundreds of people here don't expect to come here
and think that you're gonna be the only one or two or five people having a look
at this place this place is a massive tourist attraction people come from all
the way around the world just like the Grand Canyon it's a little bit over
touristy fied so if you don't mind that thing it's still worth a look it's
pretty interesting to read some of the plaques that are around Stonehenge to
kind of hypothesize to why they actually built it like they did some people
hypothesize that it's all to do with the alignment of the Sun and stuff like that
and if you were to ask your local druid I don't know if there are any local
druids or any amongst you but yeah they'll probably tell you the reason why
is laid out like that's on paper it's just a bunch of rocks it's actually kind
of cool I mean you kind of get this weird aura I don't know if anyone has
been Stonehenge I can attest to this but you kind of get a weird sense of horror
it's it's strange here the energy from around here is actually quite strange
but in a way quite nice if you do come here to any of the solstices you'll find
that you actually do have access to the stars they open it up to the general
public you'll also be sharing the stones with various weirdos and druids and
hippies but other than that yeah overall this place is definitely worth adding to
your bucket list okay nin I'm sold what do I do
well you've got to be able to get here and like I said it's pretty much in the
middle of nowhere the nearest towns are kind of Salisbury and Swindon and even
then it's about a half an hour drive away from each well Swindon's about an
hour away so probably Drive or if you do have a coach tour departing from the
nearest city take that you might actually get access to the stones
cost-wise not horribly expensive it's about 18 quid there are there abouts if
you do have an English Heritage card it's free and I highly recommend that if
you do like visiting historical sites here in England buy one of those he'll
save ya a hell of a lot of money parking well if you're an English heritage
member it's free if you're not it's free but bear in mind that this is actually a
mile and a half away from the Visitor Centre is there any way I can see this
is free a kind of remember it's in a field in the middle of nowhere
and right behind this camera lies a main a road if you could find a place to
emergency park I guess you can see this place from a distance you probably can't
see this on the camera at the moment but what I'll do is I'll take some video
footage of the traffic that slows down just so that they can see Stonehenge but
if you can actually find a place to park along the arrow behind it'll save you
the price of admission but you obviously can't get not nearly as close to the
stones as where I am now which is probably the closest you're going to get
is it worth a special trip to see this place honestly it's cool but no if you
do want to see this place make sure you visit other places around here as well I
mean there's Old Sarum there's Salisbury Cathedral there's a whole bunch of other
places that you can basically do a tour of in a single day that make it a lot
interesting it'd be pretty disappointing if this was
your only highlight every day so please if you are going to see this place make
sure you see some of the sights as well is there anything else I need to know
yes don't come here early I was here at
roughly half 6:00 this morning and unfortunately it's not open not only is
it open it's armed with security guards seriously security guards guarding an
old witch of rocks can you believe it so even if you were to park up somewhere
and try and sneak up on Stonehenge realistically you're gonna get caught so
guys don't come here too early but get here on time preferably on a weekday
preferably at putting time because I'm here on a
Saturday morning and it was Ram jammed so better I mind if you do come here
come during the week if you have enjoyed this episode of ultimate bucket list
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much for watching and we'll see you in the next episode is it worth a trip is
it worth a special trip to see this
is there any way I can get it is there any way I can see the free
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK