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Revelers welcome summer solstice

"Happy solstice!" said Laura Tungate, a 26-year-old financial adviser from Newcastle, who wore a giant rainbow sweater and offered hugs to smiling passers-by.

Taking a swig from a mug of vodka and Red Bull, she said she had been coming to the solstice ceremony for the past eight years.

"I love the whole vibe, and the energy, and the fact that these stones, that they are alive, they do breathe, and they do grow ... and they're massive!" she said."

"Jeanette Montesano, a 23-year-old recently graduated religion student from New York City and a self-described pagan, said she had been saving for a year to make it to Stonehenge, comparing the importance of the trip to the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.

"It's not the hajj, but it is (thousands of) people in a little circle. I wanted to experience something like that," she said."