Egypt – Day 3
Visit Stonehenge!
Today’s Itinerary
Breakfast
Breakfast will be at the hotel.
We travel by train to the town of Salisbury.
The train leaves from Waterloo Station at 9:15am
We will take the Hop On, Hop Off Bus from Salisbury to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge
We have pre-booked tickets to Stonehenge. The walk is about 20 minutes, however there is a curtsey shuttle.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.
Old Sarum
The tour takes you by Old Sarum, you can get off on the return trip and explore here, it is a huge earthwork raised in about 500BC by Iron Age settlers and later occupied by Romans, Saxons and Normans. They built a castle and a royal palace, and by the mid-12th century it was a busy town with a fine new cathedral.
Sunday Afternoon Roast at the Ox Row Inn
Lunch will be in Salisbury at the Ox Row Inn at 2:30.
Salisbury Cathedral & The Magna Carta
For centuries, Magna Carta has inspired and encouraged freedom movements around the world. Salisbury Cathedral’s Magna Carta is one of only four surviving original documents from 1215.
Return to London by train.
The train leaves from Salisbury Station at 4:27pm and returns to London at 5:53pm
Dinner
Dinner can be at a local pub or many other restaurants near the hotel.
Get Some Sleep!
Who knows what we will get into tomorrow!