Saturday, May 8, 2010


Day dreaming about your favorite book, the hobbit? Well, why dream it when you can live the real thing? The plane's leaving for Woodlyn Park, New Zealand! Here, we find our destination: the Hobbit Motel. Carefully chiseled into a grassy hill, this legendary motel is designed to look just like the ones in the book you've all read thousands of times. Each room is equipped with curious furniture, eccentric bunks, and a comfy atmosphere.

The Hobbits also conveniently located near the Billy Black's Kiwi Culture Show, which is an amazing show combining New Zealand history and heritage with a hilarious, interactive farm show. The show has it all! You can light the fuse to blow up a log, see a kiwi bear(that's the Aussie word for ''possum"), a dancing pig, and other bush animals, watch sheep dogs at work, help shear the sheep(there's a lot of shearing in the show), or saw down a log.

Thankfully, the motels do not match the original portion of size, as real hobbits are only 3 to 4 feet tall. It is not Middle Earth, but it is in the land where the movies were filmed!