Mount Doom
January 22, 2006 at 10:29 pm by Will Crawford in Ramblings | 1 Comment
Just a quick update. Spent this weekend down in New Zealand’s central plateau. We did the Tongariro Crossing on Saturday, a 17 km hike through the national park. Or, if you prefer, through Mordor. This was where Peter Jackson filmed most of the Mordor scenes in the Lord of the Rings, and you can see why he picked it. The mountain above is Mt. Ngauruhoe, which, with a little digital fiddling, went into the movies as Mount Doom.
Sunday was a little lighter; we visited the “Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland” in Rotorua. The sulphur springs made it quite possibly the smelliest place on earth.
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Huh. Doesn’t look very doomful to me!
Comment by Rebecca — January 26, 2006 #