Mark wrote: > Speaking of New Zealand, I saw a program last weekend on the making of > 'The Lord of the Rings' and now I want to go there! New Zealand looks > like it has some amazing country, Hell! Peter Jackson said it was the > ideal place to shoot the Rings movies because it has all of the > different types of country that they needed but without the > encroachment of civilization that would have made the films impossible > to make in say, Great Britain.
The New Zealand landscape is pretty spectacular, and popular with movie makers, because there are such a variety of different landscapes within a very small area. Vertical Limit was filmed in NZ because the Southern Alps look so much like the Himalayas, but they're only an hour's helicopter ride from a warm hotel and well-stocked bar! I guess New Zealand is one of the few places in the world where you can be snow skiing in the morning, and swimming with dolphins in the afternoon, with only a couple of hours drive in between. Hopefully The Lord Of The Rings movie will boost tourism, which is our biggest industry. Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
