photo credit: Kenny Maths
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I came across an interesting article on breathtaking Monasteries around the world! It is easy to understand how one can be enlightened surrounded by such beauty!
Great photos! Check out the article here:
Happy Summer Solstice to all of you who are in the Northern Hemisphere! Those of you in the South will be enjoying Winter Solstice with lots of stars! It is that time of year to reflect on the ancient traditions of our ancestors…enjoy the energy!
Nora 
this is very good news for Stonehenge!
updated 12:20 p.m. PT, Thurs., Dec. 6, 2007
LONDON - Plans to build a road tunnel under Stonehenge have been scrapped, the government said on Thursday, raising fears that nearby traffic could damage the ancient World Heritage Site. After years of argument over how to ease congestion around the stone circle in Wiltshire, ministers said they had decided that a tunnel would cost too much. Environmental campaigners, road groups, archaeologists and druids who worship at the site have argued for decades over how best to protect it from the thousands of cars that pass each day on two busy roads. Built between 3,000 and 1,600 B.C. as a temple, burial ground, astronomical calendar or all three, the stone circle has been described as “Britain’s pyramids.” Thousands of revelers and druids converge there on the summer solstice — the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere — to watch the sun rise. Transport Minister Tom Harris said he could not justify spending 540 million pounds on a 1.3 mile tunnel, adding: “(It) would not represent best use of taxpayers’ money.” The Liberal Democrats said the decision not to divert traffic was made after a “decade of dither and delay” by the government and could damage Stonehenge. “It puts a UNESCO World Heritage Site at risk of damage from the ever-increasing volume of traffic,” said the party’s Arts and Culture spokesman Dan Rogerson. English Heritage, the public body which looks after the site, said the decision not to build a tunnel was a “huge disappointment.”
SOURCE: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22133602/