There are plenty of great reasons to visit New Zealand, but if you're a fan of pop culture, touring the locations used to film Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies is a pretty great place to start. Though those movies shot on location all around the country, the standing Hobbiton set on Alexander Farm just outside of Matamata is the place to go if you hope to feel like you're living in Tolkien's world.
During a trip to New Zealand in May to visit some top secret movie and TV show sets, I couldn't resist a quick detour to fulfill a life-long bucket list achievement and see Hobbiton with my own two eyes. So I purchased a ticket to the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour and headed to Middle-Earth.
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During a trip to New Zealand in May to visit some top secret movie and TV show sets, I couldn't resist a quick detour to fulfill a life-long bucket list achievement and see Hobbiton with my own two eyes. So I purchased a ticket to the Hobbiton Movie Set Tour and headed to Middle-Earth.
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