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At the top of a hill overlooking the Severn Valley in Pembrokeshire, Wales is a group of seven stones. An enormous, 16-foot long capstone weighing about 16-tonnes is carefully balanced on top of three eight-foot tall upright stones.\u00a0Pentre Ifan<\/strong>\u00a0is described by archaeologists as a Neolithic (New Stone Age) burial chamber, and it dates back to 3500 BC.<\/p>\n It’s mind-boggling to imagine how the Celts were able to construct this massive dolmen 5,000 years ago. Yet, if you look from Pentre Ifan to the north, you’ll see the Preseli hills – the source for the massive Bluestones that were moved nearly 250 miles to the southeast and used to build Stonehenge!<\/p>\n A Welsh legend says the stones were thrown together by Merlin the Magician as a demonstration of his great powers. Another local tradition is that the monument is a portal to the land of the Faeries, guarded by small beings that wear soldier uniforms with red caps.<\/p>\n Would you like to visit Pentre Ifan and sense its mysterious energies for yourself?<\/p>\n We now have two spaces open in our\u00a0May 14 – 23 2024 guided tour of Wales, “Mysterious Wales, Land of Merlin – a Mystical Tour in the Realm of Dragons, Druids and Saints.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week, this Wales tour was listed as “Sold Out,” but because of cancellations, we now have one single space and one shared twin room available. If you are interested in becoming a part of this small group, don’t wait too long. It’s sure to fill up fast.<\/p>\n Besides Pentre Ifan, our Wales group will also visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n Only 2 Spaces Left! <\/p>\n We also have a few openings still available in our\u00a0April 29 – May 8 Ireland tour – “ENCHANTED IRELAND A Spiritual Travel Adventure in the Land of the Faery Faith.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Here are a few Ireland tour highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n See the Full Enchanted Ireland Tour Itinerary Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo credit: At the top of a hill overlooking the Severn Valley in Pembrokeshire, Wales is a group of seven stones. An enormous, 16-foot long capstone weighing about 16-tonnes is carefully balanced on top of three eight-foot tall upright stones.\u00a0Pentre Ifan\u00a0is described by archaeologists as a Neolithic (New Stone Age) burial chamber, and it dates back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[432],"tags":[489,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-1507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uk-travel","7":"tag-ireland-tour","8":"tag-wales-tour","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pentre](\"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Pentre_Ifan_Neolithic_Dolmen.jpg\")
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\nSee The Full Mysterious Wales Tour Itinerary Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"row](\"http:\/\/bodymindspiritjourneys.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ireland-Dingle-Pixabay.jpg\")
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\nPentre Ifan, Neolithic Dolmen:\u00a0Clayton Greenman<\/a>,\u00a0CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"