Matamata - Hobbiton, The Shire. A Voyage To Matamata, Novel Zealand, Pacific.


 





Not every bit well-heeled every bit Cambridge but only every bit horsey, Matamata was i of those pleasant province towns y'all drove through until Peter Jackson’s epic cinema trilogy Lord of the Rings put it on the map. The residents appear to accept adjusted to life inward Hobbiton amongst wry ­bemusement: ‘Strewth mate, all that elf nonsense doesn’t real- ly rattle my chains but it was squeamish to run into the quondam Kaimais on the silvery screen’.
During the filming Matamata was a cracking house to alive if y'all were curt as well as chubby-cheeked – 300 locals got run every bit extras (hairy feet weren’t a prerequisite).
Truth live on told, there’s non a lot of betoken visiting Matamata unless you’re a hobbit-botherer, but it does accept a cracking café, beautiful avenues of mature trees, as well as its undulating greenish hills are pleasantly Shire-like. If your souvenir checklist includes a thoroughbred racehorse, this is the house to come.
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