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Into the West, (and south.) Cuch's favorite New Zealand pics.
cuchulann:
Day 3: Here I am at Hobbiton. Yes the real place where.... ooh. Yeah sorry, had to sign a "non-disclosure" agreement since they were "supposed" to be filming then. But there is more to Matamata than that. Like sheep! And a really lovely waterfall. I1ll post the site pics once the film is released. Ohh and the silver fern! It's everywhere as a logo in New Zealand like the Black Magic yacht. The story goes is that the Maori would carry the ferns at night and use the underside to reflect the moonlight to light their way.
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cuchulann:
Day 4 Rotorura. Here we see the bath house, New Zealand's first tourist attraction. It was hailed as a place to cure all that ails one, but sadly due to the highly acidic nature of the hot springs which fed it, it quickly turned into what looked like a very freaky insane asylum. The fact that they did electroshock treatments and boasted baths infused with radium.... Well you get the drift. Now have a look at the line of mountains in the third picture which makes the horizon. That encircles the entire city and is not a range of mountains but the caldera of a volcano. One which will erupt again someday. If you thought Christchurch looked like a mess and then to be trumped by Japan's tsunami, well if we live to see the next big Rotorua eruption, my money is on Rotorua for full on starting damage and casualties. To finish this day I have lovely shots of lake Taupo. Coming soon... DOOM! DOOM! DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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420:
The description and pictures of that bath house remind me of Grout's mansion in Vampire: Bloodlines.
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cuchulann:
Doooom! DOOOOOOOOOOM! I hear you can make some killer jewelry there. This is Mt. Ngaurahoe in the Tongariro national park as seen from the north side which is lovely and green and the south side which is the side that was used when filming Mordor. Also featured here is the Chateau Tongariro where the poor cast of LoTR had to stay during filming because It was the only hotel. Last is Waitonga Falls in the south end of the park which was used for Ithellian, Faramir's ranger hideaway. Don't go swimming there. To enter the pool bears the penalty of death!
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420:
Looking at all these photos it's very obvious why they chose this local for the movies. Hell, they got their own Mount Doom for fucks sake!
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