NZ Trip Day 2 - Lord of the Ring Tour

Anyone of you have seen Lord of the Ring?
Yes - I've been to the capital of Rohan!!
No - It's in my room.


Well, most of the movie was filmed in New Zealand. And one of my objective to NZ is to visit the scene. And here it is.

9am at the morning, a "6WD" modified Toyota Land Cruiser stopped right outside my hostel, tour guide Mike, introduced himself and asked me if I mind to sit in the front because the tour was quite full, I don't mind for sure! XD

Cloudy in Christchurch but as we move on the weather was just nice... Mike said it's the best weather since last year! Lucky!

First stop is a river which have a name but I forgot, and which should be clear but it's not because of the rain few days ago. Same as most water supply of Christchurch, it came from the west. There was a Jet boat waiting over there but thats not in our schedule.

After than we had a morning tea at a small shop which came out of no where... have a cup of hot chocolate and a cake, play with 2 little lamb, which are SO cute!!

Then we arrived Lake Clearwater, the lake was just a mirror, reflect the whole mountain, the cloud and the sky.... That's amazing!

After that we moved on to an unseal road and no more electricity and mobile coverage beyond this point. And here it's the primary objective of this tour, the capital of Rohan!

The scene was returned to as how it was, almost none of the stone has been moved during the film as most of the structures were built above them. There were only a few evidences remain. The production team has done a very very good job to keep everything in it's original shape.

Everything there were just so beautiful. Speechless here so take a look at the photos, they were just beautiful.

From Lord of the Ring tour

Then we had a little lunch and head back to Christchurch and that's all for the tour.

Not feeling too well after the tour becoz I keep reading on the car, slept till 8 pm and have a dinner in a Japanese restaurant. Pay USD30 for 1 month wireless access in all YHA hostel~ with up and down speed 128kps and 4GB (2GB up and 2 GB down) limit, should be enough for my whole trip.


That's all for today. HK time is now 8pm but here is 1 am already, 5 hours difference.

What am I gonna do tmr?
No idea yet :p

Good Night~



Hei Ming : I hope you enjoyed it. XD You know, I just keep watching all the switches and compare the one in mind my and I've even forgto to take pics... what a shame!

oioi : Yes...NZ was just so beautiful!

c : Almost....almost~~!!

wfred: yeah I was just never been that exciting when I was on the way to those mountains!! hoho, and there are still a lot to go!!! WOOOOWWOWOWOOWOWOWWOOWOWOWW!!!!!