Geek out Your Trip and Visit These 5 Filming Locations from Your Favorite Movies
Hotel Sidi Driss
Featured in: “Star Wars”
How would you like to stay overnight in Luke Skywalker’s childhood home? The Hotel Sidi Driss is one of the most famous filming locations of “Star Wars” — a traditional Berber home built centuries ago in the deserts of Tunisia.
It served as the interior of the Lars homestead on Tatooine and these simple adobe caverns date back to the era of the Punic wars from 264 to 146 BC.
Here you can visit the Lars family dining room, see Aunt Beru’s kitchen and be within driving distance to many other “Star Wars” filming locations. For the passionate “Star Wars” geek, this would be an out-of-this-world trip.
The hotel is open all year round and the rate for the cave-like rooms is only around $10 to $20 USD per night. The online reviews say that the rooms are slightly dark and sometimes have strange smells, but that’s not too surprising in a building this old.
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The Lost City of Petra
Featured in: “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”
Looking for iconic when it comes to locations were movies were filmed? Well, remember that renowned scene in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” where Harrison Ford and Sean Connery ride their horses through the towering corridor of stone and emerge in front of this stunning carved facade?
In Petra, Jordan you can feast your own eyes on this amazing ruined city – once the thriving center of the Nabataean Empire.
Al Khazneh, also known as The Treasury, stands in for the temple where Indiana finds the Holy Grail.
The use of filming locations in Petra in “Indiana Jones” made a huge impact in the popularity of Jordan as a tourist destination. Since the film’s release the number of annual visitors has grown from only a few thousand per year to nearly one million annually.
Jordan’s tourism board even mentions the connection on the website. However, there are many other reasons to visit Jordan including the fascinating history, unique landscapes, delicious food and friendly people.
