Newgrange

I have booked a tour to Newgrange in Ireland for March 16, 2013. I am very excited about this tour and it is fact one of the tours that I'm most looking forward to. Newgrange is the site of these old, pre-Celtic tombs, older than the pyramids!it's about 5,000 years old! the same age as China!  The pre-Celtic people who built it, built it so that every year on the winter solstice, December 21,at dawn, this ray of sunlight shines down into the tomb for 17 minutes, illuminating it. it does actually take place on a few mornings before and after the 21st , but I'm assuming the 21st is the exact day it was built to happen on, so it is probably the best.according to what I've read, it is supposed to be a beautiful and spectacular sight. unfortunately, it is not a sight that anyone can just go see. They have this lottery every year and that is how they choose who gets to go, there is such a demand for people wanting to go see this sight. so I'm not gonna see it on that fabulous day, but I love seeing stuff like this! like Stonehenge in England. I love seeing these amazing...tombs and...places that people from long ago built, without modern technology. Going to Stonehenge, I walked around and thought about how these massive rocks were not only hand carried to this sight, but put in place without modern technology! imaging just putting together Stonehenge, by hand! how did that make the rocks not collapse? and it's still standing thousands of years later! meanwhile today, we build a bridge with out modern technology, and it collapses or sways in the wind! slight exaggeration, but you get my meaning. it makes you wonder, could we build something like Stonehenge, that is standing thousands of years later? let alone do it by hand without any modern technology? The people who built Newgrange, they did not have construction tools, but they also did not have satellites, telescopes,cameras, camcorders, computers, etc. to calculate and build Newgrange. they calculated the exact day of the Winter Solstice, by hand, without any computers or satellites! just stop and think about that for a minute. isn't it amazing?I feel like just getting the change to see this place is an honor, let alone getting the chance to be chosen via the lottery to get to go see it on December 21(or any of the 5 other mornings it happens on). Below I pasted a link to the Newgrange website, and on it you can read more about it, see some images and videos of it. I'm super duper excited about this and I think it will be such a good experience. 

Newgrange