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. Pentre Ifan is described by archaeologists as a Neolithic (New Stone Age) burial chamber, and it dates back to 3500 BC.
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!
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.
Would you like to visit Pentre Ifan and sense its mysterious energies for yourself?
We now have two spaces open in our May 14 – 23 2024 guided tour of Wales, “Mysterious Wales, Land of Merlin – a Mystical Tour in the Realm of Dragons, Druids and Saints.”
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.
Besides Pentre Ifan, our Wales group will also visit:
- St David’s Cathedral
- Gower Peninsula and Carmarthen, the city of Merlin
- Tintern Abbey in the Wye Valley
- Snowdonia and the Fairy Glen at Betws y Coed
- and we’ll do a Druid ceremony at the Moel ty Uchaf stone circle
Only 2 Spaces Left!
See The Full Mysterious Wales Tour Itinerary Here
We also have a few openings still available in our April 29 – May 8 Ireland tour – “ENCHANTED IRELAND A Spiritual Travel Adventure in the Land of the Faery Faith.”
Here are a few Ireland tour highlights:
- Exploring the Boyne Valley, featuring Ireland’s most notable sacred sites, Newgrange and Knowth
- Skellig Michael, with its extraordinary, ancient beehive huts
- On the Dingle Peninsula, 8th C Gallarus Oratory, 7th C Kilmalkedar Monastery and St Brendan’s Oratory
- In Kildare, St Brigid’s Holy Well and Cathedral
- The Hill of Tara, traditional burial place of Tea, ancestor queen and goddess of the Celts
See the Full Enchanted Ireland Tour Itinerary Here
Photo credit:
Pentre Ifan, Neolithic Dolmen: Clayton Greenman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons