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A week in Lord of The Rings Country

Anybody who is obsessed with The Lord Of The Rings will know exactly where the movie was shot. If in fact you are just a casual observer, or you have seen the films once or twice you might not realise, but all of the footage of that other worldly place was taken in New Zealand!

I think it’s hard to believe that those scenes were anywhere on this planet! I love the films and the books, and I of course want to visit New Zealand because of the film. I have to say though that even if I didn’t even like the films, seeing those landscapes would quickly make me want to visit that country, no matter what the film was like.

I obviously presumed that some flights to New Zealand would be out of my rather limited price range but I decided to have a hunt about to at least discover how cheaply I would be able to get them for. Once I started looking online I was amazed to find some really cheap flights to Auckland.

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