Best Film Location Travel Destinations for Movie Fans
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Film Location Travel Destinations for Movie Fans I drove the Crown Range Road from Wanaka to Queenstown in 2019 expecting to focus on the scenery. Instead, I kept catching glimpses that triggered specific memory cues from twenty years of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films - the Eyrie was filmed near Twelve Mile Delta. Lothlórien at Paradise Valley near Glenorchy. The Edoras location was actually Mount Sunday, an isolated rocky outcrop in the Canterbury Plains that I drove past three times convinced I was in the wrong place. New Zealand has built a tourism economy around film location pilgrimage, and standing in places where stories were filmed turns those stories into something more concrete than memory. Film location travel has become its own established genre. New Zealand for Lord of the Rings and Hobbit. Iceland and Croatia for Game of Thrones. Wadi Rum for Star Wars. Petra for Indiana Jones. Studios in London f...