North Island V - Hobbiton

Welcome to Hobbiton.


Hobbiton was a sheep farm and now it's one of the most visited places in New Zealand. Location

Bilbo's place

They transformed the movie set in one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country. During the summer they have a bus departure every 10 min, 40 people each!

Sam's hobbit hole

I was expecting everything to be big, for the scale effect, but no. Everything is small, like a real hobbit house would be, I guess.

After the tour around the hobbit houses we went to the Green Dragon. It's the pub they also used in the movies.

We were offered some beer, or ginger beer, and chilled out for a while.

It was actually really nice inside. And they had some costumes from the movie:

I'm wearing Bilbo's jacket

And they had tables and couches. And a fireplace.

And a cat...

The we head back to the bus.

Danial the gardener

And had some lunch:

That's all.

Next time: Volcanic Valley !