Matamata town 馬塔馬塔 - i SITE day 4 - 16 ( New Zealand )
2013.11.18
kids travel vlog | matamata new zealand (EP76)
kids travel vlog | matamata new zealand aka Hobbiton, middle earth. In this episode, Mia and Halle, two New Zealand girls, show you around Matamata.
After the launch of the Lord of the Rings movies and the opening of the Hobbiton Movie Set Tours, Matamata has become a popular tourist spot, attracting visitors from all over the world.
We show you the iconic Hobbit i-SITE information centre, hang out at the Matamata Skatepark, and show you an iconic local eatery called The Redoubt, Bar and Eatery.
Matamata is well known for its thoroughbred industry, dairy farming heritage, and historic Firth Tower Museum.
We hope you enjoyed this Lord of the Rings themed vlog in Matamata, New Zealand. Please let us know if you would like to see more new zealand travel vlogs
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Other fun Matamata, New Zealand episodes:
kids travel vlog | Firth Tower Museum, Matamata (EP41)
first time ice skating vlog (EP46)
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kids travel vlog | matamata new zealand
Matamata I-Site (Hobbiton Shire Tour).mp4
The initial departure point for the Hobbiton Tour in Matamata, New Zealand.
Hobbiton New Zealand Movie Set Tour + Banquet Dinner
New Zealand is famously known as home of Middle-earth and the Hobbiton movie set tour and banquet dinner is definitely the best experience you can do in New Zealand if you're a hobbit or Lord of the Rings fan. Imagine being immersed in the set of where they shot Lord of the Rings, learning stories behind the films and having a full on Hobbit's dining experience at the Green Dragon Inn at the end of the night.
That's exactly what we did on this episode.
We wanted to take you along on the full Hobbit experience. Starting in Matamata we take you to the famous i-SITE visitor center which is specially designed just like a hobbit's borough.
Matamata i-SITE Visitor Information Centre
Address: 45 Broadway, Matamata 3400
Hours: Monday - Sunday 9am–5pm
We also grab a quick bite to eat at the local legendary pub which funnily enough also has a Lord of the Rings theme running inside.
Redoubt Bar & Eatery
Address: 48 Broadway, Matamata 3400
Hours: Monday - Sunday 9am–1am
After finishing snacking on Frodo's secret Pizza we head off to the main event.
The Hobbiton Movie Set
Address: 501 Buckland Rd, Hinuera, Matamata 3472
Hours: Monday - Sunday 9am–5:30pm
Can't even begin to describe how amazing this experience is. We were surrounded by the Shire's luscious green, enchanting valleys and dramatic sceneries. Being able to see the external set where Bilbo, Sam and Frodo lived is a fan's dream come true. We opted for the full experience which included a dusk walk around the hobbit boroughs as well as dinner fit for a Hobbit at the Green Dragon Inn.
It had actually been raining almost all day but we were blessed with sunshine just before we went on our tour! So lucky. We also met a bunch of lovely people during our super filling Hobbit feast - shout out to Keisha, Arron, James and Sven! :)
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Hobbiton SPECIAL EVENT - New Year's Celebration Part 1 - A Journey to Hobbiton
This year in 2019, Shire Tours Limited, the company that manages the tours of the Lord of the Rings's Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand has organised 4 special evening tours at different times of the year - one of them being called the Hobbiton New Years Celebration which is what we are going for today! It promises an evening filled with food and entertainment, starting with a tour of Hobbiton, followed by a taste of Middle Earth with various Hobbit fare in a Market Place by the Green Dragon Inn serving various Hobbit ales and wine specially crafted for the Hobbiton Movie Set along with street performers, interactive games with prizes to be won and music. In conjunction, there will also be a sit down dinner in Hobbit themed Marquee.
This is Part 1 of 3 Videos.
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Redoubt Bar & Eatery
Matamata i-SITE Visitor Information Centre
Tower Road Motel
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Shire's Rest/ Hobbiton Movie Set
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The Shire - A Brief Hobbiton Tour in Matamata New Zealand, LOTR The Hobbit
A little visual taste of what you can expect doing a tour of Hobbiton, Matamata, New Zaealand. Of course, footage and photos don't usually do justice to the real experience (especially in this case). Our guide was great and fun and presented the tour in a relaxed fashion and offers a load of interesting facts about Hobbiton. The entire tour we took was 2 hours, including a stop at the Green Dragon Inn for drinks and snacks - there are other options available. The tour of Hobbiton is breathtaking and highly recommended. This tour cost $70 NZD pp.
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The Hobbiton Movie Set was a significant location used for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film series. It is situated on a family run farm about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Hinuera and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Matamata, in Waikato, New Zealand, and is now a Tolkien tourism destination, offering a guided tour of the set.
The Hobbit
The original set was not built to last, the hobbit hole facades having been constructed from untreated timber, ply and polystyrene and partially torn down after filming. In 2010, the set was rebuilt in a more permanent fashion for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, filming for which began in 2011. Ian McKellen reprised his role as Gandalf the Grey and was joined on the Hobbiton location by Martin Freeman, who remarked that the site just looked like a place where people lived and where people worked.
Visitor centre
Guided tours of the 5.5 hectares (14 acres) movie set site commenced in 2002 and continue to be provided daily. The two-hour excursion is very popular, and advance bookings are recommended.
Highlights of the tour include Bagshot Row, the Party Tree, and Bilbo's Bag End home. There are now 44 hobbit holes on view although it is only possible to enter a few of them, all of which have small, unfinished, earth-walled interiors. (The interior of Bag End was shot in a studio in Wellington). The hobbit holes on site have been designed and built to one of three different scales. In addition to the smallest ones built to the correct size (hobbits are smaller than humans), some are built to a larger scale to make the hobbit actors appear smaller, and some have been constructed in a dwarf scale for scenes containing dwarves.
Refreshments are available at The Shires Rest Cafe prior to or after tours. Breakfast and indeed Second Breakfast is served. In 2012 the Green Dragon inn (a replica of the Green Dragon that featured in the LOTR and Hobbit trilogies) was opened on the set. There is now also a store selling merchandise and souvenirs adjacent to the cafe and evening events commenced in 2014. The tours have generally received good reviews (although not all are complimentary) and in 2013 the set welcomed its 500,000th guest.
The Waitomo Glowworm Caves attraction is a cave at Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand. It is known for its population of Arachnocampa luminosa, a glowworm species found exclusively in New Zealand. This cave is part of the Waitomo Caves system that includes the Ruakuri Cave and the Aranui Cave.
The attraction has a modern visitor centre at the entrance, largely designed in wood. There are organized tours that include a boat ride under the glowworms.
i SITE time lapse
A time lapse taken in our busy Picton i-SITE
New Zealand in less than a minute
The Preindl family holiday to New Zealand 2015
All the places we went: Matamata, Hobbiton, Mclaren falls, Rotorua geothermal park, Redwoods forest, 'Mordor' Mt.Ruapehu,Wellington, the Pancake rocks, Franz Joseph Glacier, Wanaka, Cardrona, Queenstown, Mt.Cook, Lake Takepo and a few other places in between.
Show off - iSite Tauranga
The Visitor Information Centres can assist you with bus service bookings, accommodation information, and much much more.
Tauranga i-site
Contact Details
Phone: 07 578 8103
Fax: 07 578 7020
Email: bookings@bayofplentynz.com
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:30pm
Weekends & Public Holidays 9:00am - 5:00pm
Tauranga Visitor Information Centre
97 Willow Street
Tauranga
New Zealand
The Tauranga i-site is located below at the i symbol.
Atomic Tourism
The site of the first atomic bomb explosion in 1945.
NZ Road Trip
Hit the roads in New Zealand's South Island, and discover the spirit of the beautiful South
Tourism booming in the offical land of the Hobbit
(8 Dec 2010)
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Near Turangi, North Island, New Zealand, 10th November 2010
1. Various of mountains, lake in foreground
2. Close up of mountain top
3. Various of mountains which were the setting for Mount Doom
4. Various of lake shore
5. Wide of forest
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Near Matamata/ 'Hobbiton', North Island, New Zealand, 10th November 2010
5. Wide of sheep grazing on hillside in region where 'Hobbiton' film set was located
6. Tracking shot of author Ian Brodie walking to sit down at picnic table
7. Various of Brodie reading his book, the Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook
8. SOUNDBITE (English): Ian Brodie, Author of Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook:
When the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, came out, all of a sudden one of the major actors in the films was New Zealand, and immediately people wanted to come and visit those places. It peaked immediately after The Return of the King, and it's levelled off I guess over about the last five years. But it's very hard to put a number on, not many surveys are done, but in my estimation it's about NZD $135 million per annum ($103.3 USD) going into the New Zealand economy, as the result of visitors coming to New Zealand.
9. Various of sheep grazing on hillside
10. Various of sign reading (English): 'Welcome to Hobbiton, movie set and farm tours'
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Matamata/ 'Hobbiton', North Island, New Zealand, 10th November 2010
11. Wide of Sue Whiting, manager of the Matamata iSite visitor centre, working at information desk
12. SOUNDBITE (English): Sue Whiting, Matamata iSite Visitor Centre:
Well Matamata has always been a little rural town, I guess probably most people have stopped for toilets and takeaways over the years, and in 2002 when we opened the tours we went from an average of visitor numbers of about 50,000 people through the door here, and it went up to in 2004 to 360,000 people (who) came into our little visitor centre. Not all of them were taking the tours, some just popped through Matamata just to have a cup of coffee, take a photograph in front of the sign, just to say that they'd been to the place where they'd made the Hobbiton part of the Lord of the Rings. So it has been dramatic for our little town, it has been tremendous.
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Near Matamata/ 'Hobbiton', North Island, New Zealand, 10th November 2010
13. Wide of 'The Shire's Rest' caf� starting point for tours of the Hobbiton film set
14. Various of menu board in caf� with '2nd breakfast' (a popular Hobbit meal) on menu
15. Wide of Hobbit-style cloaks and scarves on sale in caf�
16. Wide of Hobbiton movie set tour bus driving up hill
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Henry Horn, Hobbiton Movie Tours:
It's been an amazing journey for eight years to have the honour of taking people out to the location and the mixed reaction is one that's always a reward. Because the look on their face, the excitement of those who are movie buffs, or movie fans as we call them, the enjoyment they have of walking around the location and asking a lot of questions and just being able to reach out and touch, versus those that haven't seen the movie set or haven't seen the movie but then go home and actually watch the movie because they've actually been in the locations where things have been developed for these major, mega moviebusters (blockbusters). So it's an exciting opportunity.
18. Pan from rustic gate across landscape
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Henrik Grundmann, Tourist:
It's one of the few ones (locations) where you can actually hope to feel some of the atmosphere here, because it has been kind of deconstructed, but there's still something left, it's not that you have to imagine everything, there's still some 'shire' left in here.
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21. Wide of forest
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Milford Sound New Zealand 8th Wonder of the World | Waterfalls trip to enchanted place
The wettest place in New Zealand, Milford Sound is also named UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE site.
This is located in the South West of South Island.
It takes two hour drive from Te Anau to Milford Sound. The Land trip alone will mesmerize you with all the amazing landscape passing Homer tunnel, mirror lake and hundreds of water falls.
Taking a boat around the Sound will also make you feel just like a speck in the towering mountain walls that rise up straight 1200 meters high or more.
The annual rainfall is 6,412 mm which makes it the wettest place inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest in the world. Rainfall can reach 10 inches(250mm) in a day.
This video was taken on summer days of January but still a rainy day at Milford sound. So make sure to always be ready with your poncho or any wet weather gear.
Destination Central Celebrates Hobbiton
This week we take a look at the businesses that have helped keep the community spirit strong in Matamata. We also preview the new I-site Gatehouse, and visit: Robert Harris, Visique Matamata Visioncare, Paperplus, Absolutte Coffee, Unichem Pharmacy.
G & T Construction
Kobelco grunt gives G & T Construction a lift in Christchurch, New Zealand.
MIMICO is the New Zealand distributor for Kobelco Excavators.
MIMICO (Matamata Industrial Machinery Import Company) Ltd:
17 Waihou Street
Matamata
New Zealand
P - +64-7-888-6294
F - +64 -7-888-4879
E- enquiries@mimico.co.nz
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Lost World Four Hours
Abseil/Rappel 100m into the Lost World Abyss followed by a dry caving adventure as you explore this magnificent cave system. Surpisingly gentle - freehanging in a massive void..bouncing a bit because of the sheer length of the rope. The roar of the Mangapu river echoes up from caverns far below. Its like being suspended in the bowels of some prehistoric beast. Climb back over slabs of rock and ladders. See massive cave formations and excellent glowworms. Min age 10 yrs. No experience required. Your experienced guide abseils alonside to provide extra information and safety. Operator has over 24 years of safe operation and is Qualmark endorsed.
Departs 363 days from Waitomo Adventure Centre 654 Waitomo Caves Rd.
Web: waitomo.co.nz
email: bookings@waitomo.co.nz
In NZ freephone 0800 924866
Northland New Zealand Churches
Drone video of some churches in Northland New Zealand, by Irwin Lawson of Media Moguls.
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