10 Movie Locations You Can Visit on Holiday

Seeing these epic locations in the flesh is an enthralling prospect. Here are 10 of the best movie locations to visit on holiday.

Guatemala: as seen in Star Wars

George Lucas' space opera created heroes Luke, Han and Leia around planets in galaxies far away. The movie was majorly shot in California and the amazing setting of the Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala provided the backdrop for the Rebel base in the fourth moon of Yavin seen near the end of A New Hope.

New Zealand: as seen in Lord of the Rings

Director Peter Jackson brought to life the Tolkien's fantasy of orcs, elves and hobbits. However, with the entire trilogy shot in the country, the scenery of his native New Zealand provided the perfect setting to bring Middle Earth to life.

Iceland: as seen in Die Another Day

James Bond movies provides some of the greatest setting for films as MI6's favorite secret agent goes jet setting to save the world. Bond is invited to a spectacular Ice Palace where he gets involved in a frantic car chase across a frozen lake in the movie Die Another Day. The chase was filmed in a a fishing village in the south east of the country of Iceland.

Salzberg: as seen in The Sound of Music

Julie Andrews sung herself into movie history as she portrayed a great Austrian nanny in The Sound of Music. Most of the film was shot in the town of Salzburg but the most memorable scene where Andrews twirls into song on the hillside was shot in Mellweg.

Seville: as seen in Lawrence of Arabia

Most of the shooting of the film was actually done in Spain as the story Lawrence of Arabia set mainly around Peter O' Toole's time in Cairo. The Arabian desert in Morocco was provided as a backdrop although the most part of David Lean was majorly shot in Spain. The other civic buildings in Seville as well as the buildings in The Plaza de Espana were used to represent the parts of Cairo.

Egypt: as seen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The sequel of Michael Bay's Transformers movie was bigger, louder and had more explosions than the original. The characters of Optimus Prime and Co. were expanded and dragged the plot away from the States to Egypt. The Giza Pyramids near Luxor proved a dramatic setting for the movie's heady climax.

Jordan: as seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Harrison Ford was more focused on the third installment of Indiana Jones trilogy searching for the Holy Grail, which saw our hero journey to the Canyon of the Crescent Moon. The real life canyon can be found in Jordan in the Edom Mountains at a place called Al Khazneh or "The Treasury".

Skiathos: as seen in Mamma Mia!

The decade's musical hit Mamma Mia was the movie version of the Abba-inspired stage musical of the same name. Filmed on the beautiful Greek Island of Skiathos, a stellar cast including Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgard brings the feel-good romantic comedy to life.

Tunisia: as seen in Monty Python's Life of Brian

Tunisia has been used by Hollywood for years to represent a variety of landscapes from the desert wastes of Tatooine in Star Wars to the arid warzone of Iraq in The Hurt Locker. Aside from its spectacular landscape, Tunasia is very cheap, providing an excellent destination for cheap holidays and cheap film sets. The Monty Python team descended on Ribat in 1979 to film one of the most controversial and excruciatingly funny movies of all time.

Thailand: as seen in The Beach

Leonardo DiCaprio as the backpacker Richard travels through Thailand and was beautifully captured by Slumdog Millionaire helmer Danny Boyle. The Beach's mysterious paradise was filmed on the tiny island of Kho Phi Leh, only a short ferry ride away from Krabi and Phuket. Travellers can trace DiCaprio's journey with a cheap holiday to Thailand and a boat trip from Phuket Pier with a cost of around £10.

Adventure Diving in Asia, great places to visit on holiday to Asia!

Diving Thailand in the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. You can also add up to Myanmar liveaboards from Phuket. Thailand is the ideal place to visit with lots of cheap flights and cheap, if you are looking for a cheap holiday adventure diving.

Cambodia still the new place for diving, a lot of adventure and your boat will probably be the only boat to go on the site. There are many schools of fish, corals, and largeGardens for snorkeling as well. Live-A-Boards, the island of Koh Tang is the best offer, with great fishing and secluded beaches.

Vietnam Nha Trang is the Hot Spot diving with over 10 companies in the city. Nudibrachs are very large and diving here are very inexpensive.

Indonesia's hard to get to the diving well, but if some of the best in the world. Indonesia lies between the Pacific and Indian Ocean at the equator, probably the world's richest biosphere,always among the top ten lists.

Philippines is a bit 'hard to reach, but now you can Air Asia and Tiger Air flights from Bangkok and Singapore in Angeles City and a taxi or bus to the ferry port at Puerto Galera, walls and wrecks everything will be good and true reef is cheap, when you arrive. Make sure you are not as large during the high season, which is the only super Pries is the highest hotel, not much later.

Malaysia postsalmost like Indonesia and not so difficult to achieve, and diving is relatively inexpensive. The Perhentian Islands are a great place for diving really cheap. The new king is nut a dip, which could be very good for scuba diving in Malaysia. Do not be surprised if a few drops into the water to cool stuff, such as helicopters, planes and big boats. I'm not sure what the protocol office is diving with a king, I think the swim back, so you can not show his behind, notmight be difficult to have to look that up!

Travel in Thailand - 8 places to start your holiday Thailand

Bangkok, the largest mango

Bangkok is the ideal starting point for any vacation in Thailand and numerous shopping centers and hundreds of monstrous clubs, it was always busy. The tourist attractions around the Grand Palace will be done on a weekend, and if shopping is not the thing that Bangkok has come out in all directions at very reasonable prices by plane, bus or train. It is also the home of the mysterious Khosan Road, which is the main starting point for those who want to be,a true backpacker in Asia. You will feel at home, backpackers, such as Starbucks and Mac D, moved within a few years ago, the joy.

Pattaya, the black pearl of the east coast of Thailand

Pattaya, by the Americans during the war in Southeast Asia, the sun-hungry men from the United Kingdom in 1980, the Vikings invaded in 1990 and put to sleep until around 2000 when the Arab invasion began, but the Russian stopped takingmore than in 2006. People come to Pattaya to live, play golf, visiting the many bars girl, but are not eligible to swim in the sea. Pattaya is an ideal destination for family holidays, but Sit Thai family, nor their flocks over the weekend with a big umbrella, with their substance, while the papers and eating seafood.

Issan, the forgotten realm

Not many tourists will travel further north Ayutthaya, but further north-east is the destination if you forgot Issan (Essan). Issan is what many people the real Thailand and the people are called by the north-east, the workhorse behind all the factories and fields of rice in Thailand. In view of the holidays is great, Bangkok was closed and overflow stops bus with people trying to return to the kingdom forgotten. Travel, where not many tourists have visited prior to this launch is the perfect starting point to explore Thailand. Most backpackers jumped to the north-east> Thailand and headed straight for the northern part, so this is a hidden gem. Not many other whites, in addition to the old settlers and their young local woman. Do not be surprised if some villages saw a white man, and you will see genuine Thai smile and hospitality. You can travel by bus, but the best way to travel is by car or motorcycle, if you have the chance.

Outposts of the rebel island of Koh Samui

Samui, from the beginning, it was a large farm forCoconuts, but most of them trimmed back or have been killed in a disease, and nothing is done to save them. Now Samui in southern Thailand is a meeting point for backpackers who do not leave Thailand because they do not want to offer their revenge. She had never enough of trance music from the island of Koh Phangan. The former backpackers' have created well-being, yoga centers, the center of Cologne, spas and I feel happy because I smoke weed centers too. Samuitruly pristine beaches and bungalows on the sea and in the rainy season, flooding the entire center. You can compare and find some 'in Christiania in Denmark after the motorcycle gangs also the way in here, there's simply more sunny.

Phuket Pearl of the Andaman

Phuket is the starting point of each island-hopping tour in southern Thailand and many low-cost carrier to fly here every day from around the world. E 'a home for many expatriates and you will find most makes a mockery of the variation in prices for a house on this island. Phuket is a term of imprisonment perfect vacation for anyone, because it is the nightlife hotels, beaches and inexpensive if you try it. Phuket has never recovered after the tsunami 2004 and the many hotels are empty, most of the season and real bargains can be found.

Krabi, the island kingdom

Who can forget the old James Bond movie "Goldfinger" and the secret island near Krabi in the South --> Thailand? If you want to explore beaches, calm waters and the nightlife in Krabi is also the place to go. It is also the place where people to go climbing. Krabi has many spectacular five-star resorts, where the beach is truly your own and not worry about many tourists travel below.

Chiang Mai in the north

No matter how you write and Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Cheng may or Cheang, still the capital of northern Thailand. Many artists andCultural figures abroad here in Thailand, houses built, and create a unique atmosphere in this part of northern Thailand. If you want to visit another trip to the north and the hill tribes in Thailand, Chiang Mai, is the starting point . The city has some of the attraction to traffic congestion on the fire and forest, but lost in the cold season, travel in Thailand, so that, on the ignited and winter clothes bought in Bangkok for trying. If you buy cheap Thai-styleFurniture imported from Burma is the game of go.

Hua Hin Paradise, the new Charter

Thais think of Hua Hin, as a place of high society and as you travel by car and stay in luxury hotels and extensive spa visits. The town is famous because it is where the King of Thailand as a summer residence Schloss has. Tourists who come here are mostly charter and Hua Hin is ideal for families, too, is a bit 'hard to reach. Beachextends infinitely years playing elephant polo.