Last summer, when I saw a photo on a Facebook group sharing about this place, I immediately told my partner: “We have to go. I have never seen something like this in New Zealand. Let’s go and visit”. So we organized with some of our friends a short trip over the weekend.
As you can see in the picture above, the Putangirua Pinnacles are made of high, eroding slabs of rock called Kupe's Sail. (Src)
Pinnacles or hoodoos were formed over the last 120,000 years, as heavy rain gradually eroded ancient gravel deposits, resulting in breathtaking individual pinnacles. (Src)
The soaring, pointing cliffs of the stony riverbed stretch up to the sky like they're almost unreal. Words can’t be enough to explain the strange beauty of this place. At that moment, I thought that I entered a hidden world on Earth.
When I touched the rocks, I kept telling myself: “How wonderful is this. These majestic rocks were formed over the past 120,00 years. Oh WOW” and I imagined how they were made layers by layers in many years like in documentaries about natural history that I watched with my partner.
This landscape was part of the Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, where Aragorn entered the path of Dimholt to recruit the undead army that turned the table upside down in the Battle of Gondor. That’s why the place was packed with visitors and many camped in the fields adjacent to the route.
If you have a chance to visit this place, remember to do the walk early in the morning as it is the best for the effect of the early sunshine coming through rock and avoiding the heat of the day. However, as we headed from Wellington, it took us around 2 hours to drive there. We arrived at around 11 AM and we can feel the very strong and unpleasant heat all around. There is not much shadow on the way.
We packed our picnic boxes so we could enjoy the view while having lunch. However, we couldn’t find any flat place, sheltered from the unforgiving sun. I know, what were we thinking? I should have seen that from the photos online. However, we managed to have a quick lunch and continue to explore the place.
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Omg...Absolutely amazing creations of the mother nature. We could explore inly few places around the world. This is one of them.
Thank you. I am so glad I was able to see this place. Life is amazing in its own way. Everything is connected to create its beautiful. There are so much more to see and learn. Cheers to our amazing nature.
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Those rock formation are so cool! and that's really awesome to know that was part of the movie's film location! (i'm a fan myself 😆)
Thank you Clara. Me too :) For me, this film location is one if the easiest spots to recognise(the easiest one is the Hobitton movie set of course). I've been looking for the gate of Mordor, or the place where Isildur cuts off Sauron's finger and the Ring... They are not easy at all :)
😂 I bet you really had fun with this specific travel. Perhaps I would also someday stumble upon a location that was used in the movies.
Certaintly, make sure you took photos from different angles so you can look up the film locations and compare later. That's what I did to connect the dots :)
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