We started our excursion at 7.00
am on Saturday morning with Bush and Beach Express Tour. It was truely
Unique, Unforgettable and Authentic tour by their friendly guide - Dawn.
The bus was comfortable and important to mention it was well equipped
with first aid box, trash can and all the basic travel related amenities. It took us about an
hour before we took a break for coffee. After the break we started heading towards our final
destination. Throughout the journey Dawn was giving us information about New Zealand, a bit about
Hobbiton and also answering to all our questions. In no time we
entered the Hobbit town of Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo, Sam.......
We entered lush green farmlands and
our private guide was already waiting for us. He was a 90 year old energetic gentleman named Eric. This guided tour gave us interesting information about how the ‘Hobbiton’ movie set was developed and
the background regarding how this location was chosen. If you have seen the film or read the book it would
make clear sense of what the guide was talking about.
We got enough time to click pictures
with different backgrounds before we went to the Green Dragon Inn for onsite brewed chilled
beer. There were about 44 Hobbit holes and interesting to note is that each one was made
differently. Unfortunately, I did not take picture of each one of it due to time
limitation.
We later went to the Shire’s Rest
Café for our afternoon lunch. We were welcomed by their friendly staff who also
made sure that we all are having a great time at Hobbiton movie set.
After that we went to the Souvenir
shop and every one could use their gift voucher given by Bush and Beach to buy
their Hobbiton souvenir. We had a very informative conversation with our guide
before we said good bye to him and started heading back to Auckland.
Everyone was very happy, mesmerised
with the beauty of the movie set and amazed to see in real all that they saw in the movie.
It was a wonderful experience to be able to actually walk on the movie set. We
took a small break on our way back at an ice cream shop. The day was nice and
sunny and everyone enjoyed eating ice cream while still lost in the world of
Hobbiton.
If you wish to experience, explore
and enjoy this journey of Hobbiton do come and meet us today to book a trip. We
will be happy to help you make your journey a memorable one.
See you soon at 4SightSeeing to book your Hobbit tour.
Reshma
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