Located in the Waikato region of New Zealand, matamata is surrounded by grassy dairy farms that transform into a hideaway in Middle-earth. One of the filming locations for the films The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
The town of Matamata is a famous town in new Zealand's North Island that is rich in dairy cows. It is also the breeding base for New Zealand's fine breeding cows, and dairy cows from many provinces and cities in China are introduced from the town. The town's residents run farms as their main business, and their income is among the highest in the country, with preliminary estimates that each family earns about 30,000 yuan (including tax) per day.
The town of Matamata has a nature that remains intact today: 100% pure, pristine and full of life. Snow-capped peaks, golden beaches, crystal clear lakes, lush virgin forests.
Matamata is the main location for the magical blockbuster Lord of the Rings Trilogy and its prequel, The Hobbit 1: An Unexpected Journey, in the Hobbit village of Shire. In the film, the town of Waikatomata is depicted as an almost isolated village of Hobbit.
It is said that Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings, began looking for locations in 1999 and finally found a place to recreate the terroir of 7,000 years ago, New Zealand, and when the director and staff saw the matamata countryside on New Zealand's North Island, they immediately decided that this was the best scene for Habiton.
In order to present the leisurely pastoral life of the Hobbit people in the book, the film crew went to the farm a year before the filming began, that is, to plant 5,000 square meters of vegetables and flower beds, so that they had enough time to grow naturally, so the Hobbit Village in the movie is a completely "real" beauty, even the doors, fences, and houses of the dwarfs in the play... It's all real scenes.
