Pilgrimage to New Zealand, as a Hobbit
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Discovery, Adventure / Sports & Leisure.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Matamata ?
The map of your stay "Pilgrimage to New Zealand, as a Hobbit"
Detail of the stay : Pilgrimage to New Zealand, as a Hobbit
How to get there - Matamata
Matamata, village of Rings
Steps: Matamata
Arrive in Auckland, then 2 hours drive to Matamata on one of the best preserved sites of the trilogy: Matamata, who houses The Shire site, says Hobbiton. Lunch at Shire Rest where many goodies are found elsewhere (the Lord of the Rings beer, Ian Brodie's guide, etc.).
Places of interest : HOBBITON
Tongariro, Décor decor
Steps: National Park Village
During the morning or early morning, go to Tongariro National Park and take the famous hiking, Tongariro Alpine crossing, in the Décors.
Places of interest : TONGARIRO ALPINE CROSSING
Weta Cave
Steps: Wellington
Visit of Weta Cave to Wellington, a world renowned workshop on special effects and costume fabrication, which has worked on the saga.
Places of interest : WETA CAVE
Mount Sunday (Edoras)
Steps: Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
Flight to Christchurch and a day spent hiking to Edoras (Mount Sunday), the capital of Rohan and home of King Theoden. You can even see Mount Cook from a distance, if the weather is mild
Twizel (Battle of Pelennor Fields)
Steps: Twizel
Visit the places of a mythical battle, the Pelennor Fields (Twizel).
Alexandra
Steps: Alexandra
Alexandra offers various interesting sites, including the farmers'village looted and burned in the country of Rohan and the canyon where Merry and Pipin, led by the Killer Whales, sow a broche broche in index to their companions.
