Crop Circles & Wessex from the air BRITISH TOURS 2003 SPECIAL Mysterious Crop Circles, Majestic Cathedrals and Pre-historic Britain seen from the ground and from the air. A 9 hour tour by car with your personal expert driver guide and helicopter for the best view of prehistoric Wessex. See a landscape marked by sacred hills, rings, mounds and henges, historic cathedrals, a vale of ancient White Horses and a Roman 200 ft Turf Giant cut into hilltops of chalk. During the Summer crop circles in amazingly complex and intricate patterns appear overnight in the Wessex countryside. Debate rages as to whether they are hoaxes or created by aliens. Suggestions linking them to energy lines that circle the earth or to ancient pagan sites have been put forward. Or are they the creation of fakers who use planks and rope to create these geometric patterns; if so why has no-one ever seen them in spite of extensive surveillance! Your personal driver-guide will collect you from your hotel and drive you into Wessex. A private dawn or dusk visit to Stonehenge is included in this tour. (Quicktime image of Dawn at Stonehenge) when this awe-inspiring monument is closed to the public and you are allowed to walk among these giant sarson stones. Towering 2l ft (6.4 m) high and weighing up to 50 tons you will marvel at how stones of such monumental scale were quarried, transported and erected 5,000 years ago when the only tools available were made of wood, bone and stone - and why? Your tour includes a 45 minute helicopter ride offering you spectacular aerial views of Wessex County. Stonehenge; Avebury the largest prehistoric stone circle in the world; the medieval city of Salisbury with its magnificent cathedral built in only 60 years from 1220 to 1280 boasting the tallest spire in Britain; Winchester, once capital of England, and its fine Norman cathedral which is 556 ft long and the longest cathedral in Europe, ancient burial mounds; the unique White Chalk Horses the oldest is believed to be 3000 years old created by the Celts of the Bronze Age (Quicktime image of The White Horse of Cherhill); the Cerne Giant, a 180 ft (54.8m) tall chalk figure of naked man brandishing a 120 ft (36.6 m) club believed to be of Roman origin; crop circles; picturesque lush green countryside dotted with pretty villages and church steeples. Your guide will suggest a pretty historic pub for lunch and will take you to historic Salisbury (Quicktime image of Salisbury) and Winchester to see their fine cathedrals. Finally, before returning to your London hotel , you will have an opportunity to walk among the famous stone circle and earthworks at Avebury. Photos from top: Wiltshire crop circle from air, Stonehenge (druid ceremony in progress), and Avebury at Dusk. Contents of British Tours Ltd website copyright. Pricing 1 or 2 people: £1,250 3 or 4 people: £1,500 5 or 6 people: £1,750 Maximum 6 people. Includes personal driver-guide, private car/people carrier, private access to Stonehenge, helicopter tour of crop circles, and collection and return to your London hotel. British Tours Ltd, London © All rights reserved.