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Japan to NZ

Napier
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Napier City
Sight Seeing tour
Art Deco tour
Wine tour

Wellington
Accommodation
Wellington City
Te Papa Museum
Location tours
-Rover Rings tour
Wine tour

Picton
Accommodation
Picton City
Wine tour

Christchurch
Accommodation
Fishing

Rotorua
Accommodation
Rotorua City
Sightseeing

Mount Maunganui

Auckland
Accommodation
Sky tower
Auckland City
Location tours
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-Mordor
Wine tour
Kauri Forests tour

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Isengard was a green and a peaceful place with lots of big trees. But after Saruman knew the rediscovery of the Ring, Orcs cut down the trees in the garden under the order of Saruman and provided fuel for his smelting furnaces. So the beautiful Isengard was destroyed and became Saruman's base with a dark atmosphere. The trees, which were cut down by Orcs in the movie, were relocated from the other place and reassembled by using bolts. These trees were attached by poles in the ground and the scenes where Orcs uprooted them by the ropes was filmed in this park. (More Images...)
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Here you can slightly see traces of the holes for those trees.

During filming the movie, there was a gravel pathway into Isengard with a chained fence. Now it was completely removed and there was nothing left of them. If I had came here 3 years earlier, I could have seen the traces of the different grass colors that was used to return this location back to its original state. (More Images...)

SOBERING THOUGHT
It is a beer which was brewed for the Lord of the Rings movies. In the scene when the actors were drinking beer, this beer was used. Why was it called "SOBERING THOUGHT"? Because it only has 1% alcohol and you never can get drunk if you drink a lot! In the movie, people drank it as tap beer and you can't see the bottle with this label.

Tour van and the wonderful guides
Thank you for everything! I did well to join this tour!
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