New Zealand: Hobbiton Movie Set - Part 2

Mostly photos for this blog. This is the second post on the Hobbiton Movie Set and this post will show the photos I have taken for the movie sets.

We went really early in the morning for the tour so you can hardly see any people photo bombing my photos. Do try to make the effort to go early as this farm is like a must-go attraction for all tourists. When it gets too crowded, you will not be able to get any nice photos.

Enjoy the photos! :)

New Zealand: Hobbiton Movie Set - Part 1

I went to New Zealand on a guided tour in 2013. New Zealand is a beautiful country with sheep and cow on the mountains and clear blue sky. However, I have to admit that it is not a suitable holiday destination for a city girl like me. Beautiful scenery can get a little boring over time if there is all to see for the whole trip.

Enough said on that. Today I am going to show you some of the photos that I have taken on the Hobbiton Movie Set.

Hobbiton Movie Set is the farm in New Zealand where The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbits movies were shot. While the set for the shooting of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy were taken down after the shooting had ended, the set was rebuilt for the shooting of The Hobbits movies. After the filming, the set was left there as a permanent attraction for visitors.

Having said that, you are likely to be expecting to see some photos of the set of the movie but please be disappointed. For this post, I will not be putting up the photos on that. I will do that in another post. If you can't wait for those photos, you can actually Google them. They are definitely going to be nicer than those i have anyway.

I am just going to share with you some photos of the sheep found on the farm. You do not see these sheep in the movie as they are considered to be too modern animal for the movies. So these sheep were re-located to another part of the farm when the shooting of the movies was on.


 

A group of sheep with the sheepdog at the back. This was a performance for the visitors to see how the sheepdog can guide the sheep to different location. A very common sheep show that you can always find at all sheep farm. I seen a similar show in Taiwan too.

The sheep looks very nice on the farm but they do seem to be quite hungry. Maybe it's early in the morning and they have yet to have their breakfast. If you go forward to feed them, most of the sheep will tail after you as long as you still have food in your hands. Note that all the sheep are kept behind the barriers so technically you cannot hug them. Touching them is allowed.

They have another sheep show showing you how the wool is sheared off a sheep. As the weather is quite warm, it is more comfortable for the sheep with the wool sheared off. But they do appear a bit shy after all the wool was gone. Cutez...