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Where is the most magical/mystical place that you have visited?

Posted by Getty72 • 2/17/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I live in Wiltshire, England and am lucky enough to live near Stonehenge. I took a trip there yesterday. With all of today's modern technology, we are still unable to unearth all of the mysteries surrounding the site.

Below is a photo that I took whilst I was there.

Stonehenge 23

Have you been anywhere that is surrounded by magic, mystery and intrigue?

If so, I would love to hear about it?

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2/17/08

Pentad

Yes. Lake Garda (Italy). It especially has a magical atmosphere in the autumn. Definitely something special about it, because I can't seem to forget it.

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1. 2/17/08
  
  Getty72
  
  I have never been to Lake Garda, but have heard many wonderful things about it.
2/17/08

GlossGreen

A place called Colgate Licks in Idaho. It's a really cool place that no one has ever heard of. Very cool and spooky looking place. I love going there. I haven't been back in years though.

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1. 2/17/08
  
  Getty72
  
  I love places with a spooky feel. Especially when it is cold and foggy.... really eerie!!!
2/17/08

ThriftShopRomantic

I loved my visit to Stonehenge. It had been an incredibly dreary day up until that point, but the weather cleared when I arrived, making for some remarkable photography-- just the right amount of cumulus clouds for powerfully moody photos.

To get to see it in person was amazing.

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1. 2/17/08
  
  crpitt
  
  where are the photos! show them!
2. 2/17/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  I'll have to dig them out. They were in '96, well before I had a digital camera.
3. 2/17/08
  
  Getty72
  
  I agree, Stonehenge has something about it - especially when the sun is shining. That must have been amazing seeing the sky brighten up when you arrived!! I am glad that you enjoyed your trip.
2/17/08

Pentad

GlossGreen..is that up in the hills?

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1. 2/17/08
  
  GlossGreen
  
  Northern Idaho. I don't remember exactly where, but I'd recognize it if I saw it again. It's just a special place from my childhood. We'd always stop there on the way to the grandparents house. Hell, I think I even spelled it wrong.
2/17/08

crpitt

I was out hiking yesterday and you make your own magic by getting off your arse and seeing the countryside that your lucky to live near.

Here is my favourite shot:

Not got round to seeing Stonehenge yet.

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1. 2/17/08
  
  GlossGreen
  
  Very nice shot. That's the kind of place I like to visit.
2. 2/17/08
  
  Getty72
  
  WOW! So beautiful. Where was it taken, was it in the Lake District or one of the Scottish Lochs? It makes a change for us to have such a nice weekend.... the sky has been perfect and you have captured it so wonderfully here. Thanks for sharing
3. 2/17/08
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  That is beautiful. Yes, there's a bit of natural "magic" around almost whereever you look when the lighting is right.
4. 2/17/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Twas in Wales, Llyn Crafnant or somewhere near there
  
  I was lucky with the camera and the magic 'auto' setting.
5. 2/17/08
  
  jafabrit
  
  That is a FANTASTIC photograph,and I agree with your sentiment.
6. 2/17/08
  
  Theresa111
  
  Awesome and so serene.
7. 2/18/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Thanks guys
8. 2/18/08
  
  kevingoodman
  
  Awsome picture. I half expect to see a phantom hand reaching out of the water. I think it's the lighting - but certainly a surreal quality.
9. 1/22/09
  
  LGramlich
  
  Awesome, crpitt! I MUST get to Wales someday!
2/17/08

Pentad

beautiful crpitt. Almost expect Loch Ness to pop up..haha

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2/17/08

Pentad

I looked it up, GlossGreen. That was correct spelling. Lewis and Clark Trail?
www.lewisandclarkidaho.com/hwy12.htm

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1. 2/17/08
  
  GlossGreen
  
  That is it. We used to drive that way several times a year. My grandparents used to live in Kamiah. Since they don't anymore, I haven't had much reason to go back recently. I also live in Germany for the time being, so travel to Idaho is pretty much out for me for quite a while.
2/17/08

voodooKobra

Everywhere, because magic doesn't exist.

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2/17/08

twistedteenager

I suppose my university college building is quite cool and spooky. The old builing is a small gothic castle. It's where the very first gothic story was written and based on: The Castle of Otranto, at St Mary's College, Twickenham, England.
Cool building, shame about my course...

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1. 2/17/08
  
  Getty72
  
  WOW! That sounds so interesting. I love old buildings... have you heard anything go bump in the night? (Apart from drunken students...lol!). What are you studying?
2/17/08

globalgirl

I'd like to see Stonehenge...It is fascinating to me.
Here is my most mystical place.. my home away from home: Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

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1. 2/18/08
  
  Getty72
  
  That cloud looks so dramatic, and I love the blue sky poking through. That certainly looks magical. A fantastic photograph of a beautiful location!!!
2/17/08

jpearce

So far it's been driving through Big Sur the night of a full moon.

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2/17/08

KCdesigns

I used to work as a National Trust dude at
Alderley Edge
www.alderleyedge.org/!

My favorite Job!

KCdesigns
www.ringtone-3g.com

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2/17/08

acousticguitarist

Hampi

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2/17/08

kdawg68

On the big Island in Hawaii there are some interesting sites that were sacred to the natives. There's one sanctuary in particular that was very awe inspiring.

Of course, our Hawaiian tour guide who believed that picking up rocks would attract evil spirits to haunt you and curse you for the rest of your life added to the mysterious aura of the place exponentially, but it was still wicked awesome notwithstanding.

Closer to home, "the angle" where Pickett's Charge broke apart at Gettysburg is a place that feels deeply moving and mysterious to me at dawn and even more so at dusk. It's as if the echo from the last cannon report, and the smoke from the last rifled musket have just faded away. The ground looks (deceivingly) like time stopped there in July of 1863.

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2/18/08

marcxtg248

omg, ever since i was i kid i always dreamnt of stonehenge. i am still hopeful that atleast once in my lifetime i'll have a chance to visit that place. i can say my life is complete after i visit that place. dunno but i just feel the urge to see it since i was a kid.strange? no?

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2/18/08

africana

I have been to Goree Island in Senegal and seen the rooms where slaves were kept and the "door of no return". It's such an experience I wish everyone could visit it in person. but you can see the virtual tour here: webworld.unesco.org/goree/

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2/18/08

crkian

Paul Daniels Magic Show

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1. 2/19/08
  
  Getty72
  
  LOL!!!!
2/18/08

kevingoodman

I visited a Neolithic stone circle in Poland that was not only remote but there were no other visitors. The formation was awesome but the isolation of the place was equally nice. There was a warning sign that said picking up rocks was bad luck…sure enough, minutes after pocketing my own relics the sky rumbled and violent lightning followed – seemingly from nowhere.

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2/18/08

LGramlich

I used to live within a half hour of Niagara Falls. Although that's not "magical" in a supernatural sense, it's magical in a very real sense. Not just the Falls, either...the gorge, the escarpment, all of it. The gorge can make a person feel very, very small. Very humbling. My favorite, personal, "mystical" place was a virtually private beach on Lake Erie where I spent many a moonlit night alone in meditation.

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2/18/08

dreesyach

Prambanan, The 1000 Temples Minus One. Located in Jogjakarta,Indonesia - this Hindu temple was built in the 9th century. Sometimes Prambanan is called Loro Jonggrang. There's a legend involved, concerning Loro Jonggrang. Many, many years ago, so they say, lived a beautiful and haughty princess called Loro Jonggrang. Many people wish to marry her but she always refused, setting impossible tasks for her suitors to perform. One day, a noble told Loro Jonggrang that he'd like to marry her. Loro Jonggrang agreed, in one condition: he had to built one thousand temples during the night. The man had extraordinary powers, so he did not even flinch upon hearing this. Loro Jonggrang watched in horror at this man's ability. The noble managed to build one temple and then another, efficiently and quickly. Loro Jonggrang did not want to get married, so she cunningly roused the roosters to crow before dawn. That way, the man would lose the bargain. When the roosters crowed, the man had finished building 999 shrines. Angry for being tricked, he turned Loro Jonggrang into a big statue and use it as an adornment for the 1,000th temple.

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2/18/08

app2usadvisor

Denali National Park, Alaska.

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2/19/08

joshman

Old City, Jerusalem, Israel

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1. 2/19/08
  
  Getty72
  
  I desperately want to visit the Old City of Jerusalem. To experience it must be so emotional.
2/19/08

Adventurelust

There's anb ancient stone cave called "Mahakaal" hidden away in the hills around Guwahati! That's the most mystical place I ever visited. It's mind blowing!

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2/19/08

wilbau

Jerusalem, Jericho. Israel in general.

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1/22/09

ophase

The Sema Performance in Universiade 2005 Opening Ceremony

It was also a live event on TV:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWKAHtbU6eo&feature=related

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1/22/09

acousticguitarist

Oh, that's the old spaceship landing pad called Stonehenge. It's pretty derelict now.

Here's the God Shiva

Arunachala Shiva Om Nama Shivaya

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1/22/09

sisterofmercy

I remember seeing Stone Henge when I was about 8 years old, we went there really early in the morning as the sun was coming up, such a stunning place.

The most magical place I've been to is Glastonbury Tor, you can see for miles on a clear day, the whole town has got quite a mystical air to the place, it's on lay lines and there's an abbey there too. When I went to the tor with my parents and the dog the Hare Krishnas came up the hill, all in traditional clothing and carrying incense and playing instruments and singing. So we all joined in and danced ans sang around the tor, was amazing.

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1/22/09

sensico

Disney World

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1/22/09

annz

While studying geology in Italy, we visited the marble quarry where Michelangelo and others had gotten the marble for their sculptures. Just touching the rock gave me goosebumps (and I've touched a lot of rock, none of it had this effect on me). I swear that that marble was alive with something - potential maybe? I have two small pieces from that quarry.

I love seeing some of the pictures posted on this thread.

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3/14/09

stonehenge

Here's a note about the Stonehenge bluestones that readers may find interesting:

We can ponder and speculate about how the bluestones got to Stonehenge forever, yet the really interesting facts about the bluestones are hardly ever mentioned. Many of the stones retain architectural details that have nothing to do with their present setting (one which sees them simply re-used in a shadow of their former glory). Some were once part of elegant small lintel- topped (trilithon) structures. In fact the most beautiful of all the stones at Stonehenge was a fabulously shaped and polished bluestone lintel that was excavated in 1954; it was photographed and then reburied.

There are no known stone holes at Stonehenge that could have accommodated the spacing required for these earlier bluestones settings i.e. as small trilithons. They could not have stood in either the ‘Aubrey Holes’ or the later double array of ‘Q an R Holes’, both of which pre-date the Iconic structure, only with some extreme stretch of the imagination could they be seen as contributing to anything that existed on the site of the present sarsen array.

So what structure did these dressed bluestones belong to, and did their form inspire the builders of Stonehenge to create the massive trilithon structures? Was there another lintel capped stone monument, built not at Stonehenge but elsewhere? These are the really intriguing questions. By constantly focusing on the ‘moving of stones’ and how they were erected we miss so much more of the truly fascinating details which tell us about the history and design of Stonehenge.

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