Revelers mark summer solstice at Stonehenge
Solstice revelers celebrate the arrival of the midsummer dawn at the megalithic monument of Stonehenge on June 21, 2012 near Salisbury, England. Cloudy skies and a Met Office weather warning for heavy rain meant the numbers of revelers who annually gather at the 5,000 year old stone circle to see the sunrise on the Summer Solstice was down on previous years.
Stonehenge was the place to be during the summer solstice on June 20, as druids and ravers gathered to mark the beginning of the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
The festivities lasted all night and into the next morning, with revelers mingling with modern-day pagans despite the gloomy skies and threats of rain.
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