Weta Caves Wellington

It was a nasty wet day, although we managed to go for a walk in the Botanical gardens in the morning, spotting some interesting and quite rare birds. I got a good look at the famous Tui and we saw the rare parrots (maybe a 'Kaka'?), as there is a nearby bird sanctuary and they can fly in and out. There were some lovely plants and trees. Apparently …

We arrived back in Wellington after our 3 and a half hour ferry ride to be picked up by Gollum (he was our driver from Auckland) to be taken to our hostels. We had chosen to stay in Wellington for 3 nights as we wanted to do the Lord of the Rings Tour!!!

After we had checked into our hostel it was almost time for tea but one look in the …

Á leiðinni komum við við í bæ sem heitir Bulls. Þeim í Bulls finnst þau vera rosa fyndin og hafa innleitt BULLS í um 200 orð. Til dæmis heitir félagsheimilið Soci-a-BULL, á ruslatunnunum Responc-a-BULL, á fatabúðum stendur Wear-a-BULL og fleira og fleira! Steiktir þessir Kiwi-ar!

Aaallavega það var glampandi sól þegar við komum inn í …

Waking up today it looked as though it was going to be a miserable day with all the rain - so much so that we considered missing out on our Wellington Rover Tour. Turned out to be a good move going because the day panned out quite well and the miserable weather actually contributed to the atmosphere of our first stop for the day - Mount Victoria. …

After waking up to gorgeous blue skies over Torngariro we just had to catch up on a few more photos of the breath-taking scenery that had been hidden behind the clouds yesterday. The drive south to Wellington took us all the way down the west of the park and back underneath again before turning off south. This meant that we got to see Mount Ruapehu …

Before leaving Welly, we headed to the Internet café. When I was last there we had the Earthquake, but nothing happened this time thank god.

Weta Caves – Here is the home of the team who worked on Lord of the Rings (among others like King Kong and Tin Tin). They created the prosthetics, equipment, weapons, and even Gollum and all of …

... props are one thing but where the magic truly happens is Weta and no place better to see that (apparently) then the Weta Caves. Weta's workshop and digital media branch worked on a variety of films and television programmes: The Lord of the Rings ...

... . Ausserdem noch die Felswand von "Dunharrow" durch die Aragorn, Gimli und Legolas auf den "Pfad der Toten" kommen. In den "Weta Caves" haben wir Gollum, Gimli (nur ne puppe, aber mit Originaloutfit) und einen Uruk Hai (dicker Ork) getroffen ;-) ...

... arredores que, na sua maior parte não sabe da existência de tamanhas instalações de filmagens, produção e edição; A visita às Weta caves, empresa que produziu todos os adereços, objectos, efeitos especiais e edição dos senhores dos anéis ...

... a little heavier. If we hid indoors whenever the weather turned bad though I doubt we'd get a chance to see much of New Zealand. We wandered down into the central business district of Wellington and found some free wifi at the info centre. Here we ...

... easy to find, but are in Miramar, not far from the airport. From where we have camped this means driving through Wellington which is located on a series of steep hills, with winding streets and dual carriageways. Easy enough to negotiate as the streets ...

... auf jeden Fall einmalig und einen Besuch wert! Desweiteren lockt Te-Papa (welches das größte Neuseeland-Museum des Landes ist), die Weta-Caves (dort kann man den Machern von Herr der Ringe und co. über die Schulter schauen), die botanischen Gärten ...

... of us posing as hobbits. Then we went over to ´Wellywood´ where Peter Jackson lives and got to see some of the studios and the Weta caves where all the CGI stuff is done. Our next stop off was Tongariro national park, where we had hoped to do the 18km ...

... Hotel gebucht und wir gehen am Abend noch ins Kino. Am naechsten Tag schlendern wir etwas durch die Innenstadt und besuchen die Weta Caves in Welliwood. Hier wurden viele Arbeiten zu den Filmen Herr der Ringe, Avatar, King Kong und Tin Tin gemacht. Wir ...

... Welly, we headed to the Internet café. When I was last there we had the Earthquake, but nothing happened this time thank god. Weta Caves – Here is the home of the team who worked on Lord of the Rings (among others like King Kong and Tin Tin). ...

... eine ehre! Wir sahen uns auf ted's laptop die szenen aus dem film an und anschliessend ging's noch zu den 'weta caves', dem studio, welches für die spezialeffekte und figuren von LOTR verantwortlich war. Ein weiterer kurzlebiger nachmittag neigte sich ...