Walking along the beautiful coastline of white chalk cliff between the Lulworth Cove and the natural arch of Durdle Door was probably one of the highlights of my England trip. Originally not part of my first plan, but I decided to visit this place after saw picture of the Durdle Door on Wikipedia, at that time I hardly believed that the place was in England.

Travel without own vehicle was the real pain in the area especially in winter, from Wool train station there were infrequent bus connect the town to the village of West Lulworth, but the schedule was not so friendly to leisurely sightseer, at the end I decided to take taxi to Durdle Door and walk back to Lulworth Cove for better bus connection. Taxi took me to some kind of campsite with many small summer houses in the middle of green rolling hills, the driver said this place was the most convenient to see the famous natural arch, and true to his words, after walking downhill I started to see the coastline with stunning turquoise water of Atlantic. Then I saw the headland and a cove, the one on the photo of Ian Cade’s review, called Men O’ War Cove, the view was pretty lovely, I continued along the pathway to see the viewpoint where with my surprised, I saw the Durdle Door! Actually, I planned to walk on the beach in Durdle Cove, but the access was closed with warning sign of danger, so I had no chance to see the Durdle Door closely, but the view of the area was really great. I looked at the coastline and saw that the chalk cliff is melting into the ocean, a sign that erosion from the ocean is still continuing and one day the cliff I saw will be gone.

After Durdle door, I tracked back to Lulworth Cove to see its almost perfect circle cove, the area was again a lovely place but with more tourist facilities. After leisurely walk in the area, I took a bus back to Wool Station before continued my trip to Stonehenge. I was quite surprised to know that the area was called Jurassic Coast for its abundance of fossils; so, this was the second fossils site place I saw after Monte Giorgio on Italy and Switzerland border. However, I could not find anything in the area to emphasize the fossil; all information was about stunning geology, or do I misunderstand something about the place? For me the coastline of Dorset is a lovely place to visit for its landscape, and it is more interesting than the one in Dover.