Oh Lord: I visited a bizarre, fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest

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Oh Lord: I visited a bizarre, fake Hobbit-theme park in a cloud forest
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Who wouldn’t, given the chance, travel to a kooky cloud-forest amusement park trying its heart out to authentically rip off a movie-set-cum-theme park thousands of kilometres away?

films but I’m pretty sure I don’t remember Gandalf, Galadriel or Gollum ever resurrecting a lifeless truck by smashing the bejesus out of it with a blacksmith’s sledgehammer.

A wooden bridge with lashed-twig railings concaves into a deep-green, more-or-less Hobbit-sized hillside realm saturated with LOTR visual cues, soundtracked appropriately by harp-heavy music and jig-inducing ditties .With each elfin step up the flower-lined paths, however, the gulf between Hobbiton and Hobbitenango comes into focus.

Cosplaying elves, hobbits and garden-variety humans can remain relevant on Hobbitenango’s circus of Insta-wings and Insta-swings, headlined by a mossed-curtained giant troll’s-hand platform perched on a cliff’s edge . Staff play suspiciously dumb when I quiz them about two other giant-hand photo opportunities at nearby theme park Altamira. I silently wonder if I should notify the UN about Vuelta Grande’s brewing Insta-war.

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