Hobbiton

Last saturday, I went to “Hobbiton”, a movie set of Lord of the Rings, in Makamaka. We departed at 8am at EF School and drove about 2 hours to Matamata. We bought some lunch and took the Hobbiton bus to the sheep farm. While we drove there, Rene used to drive our small bus to the entrance of the sheep farm.

At about 11am, we finally entered the Lord of the Rings movie set!

Our guide told us nearly everything about the places. He told us exactly which scene was filmed at which place. It was amazing.

But not everything is still there, because many things, such as gardens or animals, were taken from Great Britain to make the film exactly like the book. They made gardens, which aren’t there now, and a lot of additional decoration was removed as well.

After that, we drove to Hamilton and went to beautiful (and ugly) gardens. We took a break for about 1 hour and then we drove back.

All in all the day was great. Mainly because I am a real Lord of the Rings fan and enyoyed the whole movie set. I think it is only interesting, if you are really exited about Lord of the Rings.

Greetings

 Andy