Movies and travel can both be about escaping from our everyday reality, as we step - literally or figuratively - into a foreign landscape and pretend that our daily responsibilities don't exist. Whether we walk out of a darkened theater or off an airplane back into real life, we can choose to think of those departures as temporary or we can treat them as springboards for further adventures.
While movies can instantly transport us to mythical lands to far off islands and from futuristic cities to places yet to be discovered, the journey doesn't have to end when the credits roll. There are plenty of actual locations around the globe that have served as movie locations - and, more importantly, that we can visit. Your own adventure may be less scripted than the film version, but of course in your adventure you've got the starring role.
Ready for your closeup? Here are some of the best movie locations around the world that you can visit.
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Photo credits: Thailand, The Beach by Argenberg, Salzburg, Austria by abhijeet.rane, Greece by Son of Groucho, Tokyo by Joi, Patagonia by Lisandro M. Enrique, New Zealand by alexindigo, Tunisia by Panegyrics of Granovetter
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I was invited into one of those underground homes. It was enchanting.....and sooo different. Also, they offered me the best olives I'd ever eaten. Someday, I'm going back, if only for the olives!
That was about ten years ago. Don't know what kind of reception I'd get nowadays. Back then, Tunisia was the most secularized of the Moslem countries and I felt safe and totally welcomed throughout the country. Now that I think of it, the best holiday ever.
And you are soooo right about the olives. Tunisian olives put all others to shame
Best time of my life there!
Such a beautiful and clean country, such wonderful, healthy, boisterous people!
Kiwis rock!
NOWHERE!!!
The Big Green, Spy Kids, The New Guy, Mortal Kombat, and Miss Congeniality
Oh, and BTW, I can think of a view filmed in my native San Francisco:
Vertigo, Family Plot, The Birds (nearby Bodega Bay), Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, Pal Joey, Dark Passage, Point Blank, Bullitt, Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home, American Graffiti (Petaluma and San Rafael) The Woman in Red, The Presidio, Basic Instinct, Mrs. Doubtfire, Final Analysis, Interview with the Vampire, Pacific Heights, Raising Cain, The Rock, Milk