Glenorchy Town Centre Walk Tour 2024 | New Zealand Walking Tour 4K | New Zealand Paradise

Video date: 17 February 2024 Just 45 minutes from Queenstown, Glenorchy is nestled on the northern shores of Lake Wakatipu & is the gateway to hiking trails and Middle‑earth™ magic. Home to about 500 people, Glenorchy is a welcoming and vibrant place famous for its southern kiwi hospitality. There’s an assortment of accommodation, cafes, restaurants and bars. Glenorchy’s spectacular landscapes have become a prime location for film scouts, depicting many scenes from The Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as featuring in the Narnia movies. Twenty kilometres away from Glenorchy, as bucolic farmland gives way to beech forests, lies Paradise. Some say it was christened for its natural charms, others for the paradise ducks that live in the area. Nobody can say for sure how it got its name, but the one thing people agree on is its breathtaking beauty. "This is the Middle‑earth™ I had always pictured," Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf) said of Paradise. Click to Subscribe:    / @newzealandwalker   #Queenstown #Glenorchy #NewZealand4K #NewZealandTravel