Follow the film to travel Hawaii large preferred

David Morgan is a native of Hawaii, the growth in the north shore of Oahu's family farm. He still clearly remember my childhood to peek at the Elvis Presley movie. Now is the kualoa ranch operation director Morgan recalled, "Elvis Presley and the girl sitting on a helicopter, fly to a remote beach, we to peek at the movies, but found that even if there is a star, the filming process is better than the movie itself to the wonderful".

Follow the film to travel

Time flies, over the past few decades, Morgan's passion for films always reduced. The film industry is not only to the many appear in large opportunities in the Gulani ranch, also let the ranch itself has become a popular tourist attraction! The popular travel website Trip Advisor recently selected the ten most popular "movies" kualoa ranch, one of Hawaii's two companies on the list, ranking the sixth in the list. Today visitors can participate in the pastures of the movie adventure, take a bus tour to visit the "Jurassic Park" "Godzilla" "Pearl Harbor" "50 first dates" cohabitation "three of us are walking together" and other business card location.

The travel company located in the garden of the Polynesian adventure island of Kauai tour of the film followed by ranking the seventh. Tour line including "South Pacific", "the station", "the great Mystery Island" and "Jurassic Park" and other films, but also to the now closed Coco Palms Resort have a look, here is the 1962 shooting of Elvis Presley was blockbuster film "blue Hawaii".

"The first 50"

Kualoa ranch is located on the northeast coast of Oahu Island, covers an area of 4000 acres, in 1870 began the cattle. In 1850, Gerrit Judd purchased 622 acres of land from Hawaii at the time of King Kamehameha III hands, began to farm, has been 160 years of history. In addition to providing a filming location, organization cinematic journey, kualoa ranch and a number of other attractions, such as ATVs, horseback riding, sailing trip, learn hula dance and so on, visitors can also to have 800 years of history, the Molili fish pond garden and hidden valley.

John Morgan's brother David Morgan said, in fact, advertising photography, television, film, photography, initially in the kualoa ranch business accounted for only a very small part, today still do not share. 1950's classic film "Mr. Roberts" was the first movie in the pasture. To the 70's, ranch began to actively participate in the filming, but in the whole operation, a part of the still small.

Morgan brothers in the family, have the kualoa ranch is the fourth generation. In recent years, pasture not only provides the location for the film, also shot the film location open to visitors. They said, kualoa ranch has a beautiful natural scenery, in Hawaii it is a historic, cultural significance of the place. Now about the movie business, is becoming more and more important. At present, the TV show "CBS Hawaii Five-0" Heaven law regularly in the pasture framing, while ABC Off the Map hit show "the hidden world spirit medicine" has 2 fixed area. "Geocentric adventure" sequel "mysterious island" has just finished shooting in the pasture. Fans can also see the kualoa ranch style in 2012's upcoming film "battleship" in Battleship.

From Alberta's Berg family recently at the ranch attended movie adventure tour project. Over the past 20 years, the Berg family every year to vacation in Hawaii, Hollywood in Hawaii the figure appeared again and again, finally to attract them to come to kualoa ranch's cinematic journey. Berg said, "in the past years we often drive through here, now is the time to go to have a look. Many of my colleagues because hit drama "law enforcement" Heaven come and visit here!"

The film, it is with the Hawaii travel industry like nature itself -- highest quality partner. Many of the audience were shocked by the film of the beauty of Hawaii, then to Hawaii "field excursion". Kualoa ranch landform, who in the film appeared in Africa, Ireland, Amazon, Mexico, Atlantis, and beyond. Pasture also received from Japan, South Korea, Australia and other countries of the shooting team. Morgan smiled and said, "Bollywood has not come, but also fast".

When Nicolas Cage shot "Windtalkers" is, kualoa ranch was filming the actual scene. One day a total of 272 major explosion, this is the history of Hollywood a day the most explosive. John introduces, the whole valley full of fuse and explosive, to make the film 20 minutes prior to make smooth reading. The explosion caused this place full of craters, the crew also specially to send real medical personnel at the scene.

Morgan said, pasture will continue to consider cooperation and film industry, let more audience in the big screen to appreciate the beauty of guarani.

In Kauai, the Polynesian Adventure Company Award "cinematic journey" is a rather new projects in the company. 2 years of operation, has become the gold program. A cruise ship arrival date, must be sold, no cruise day, can also sell 90% of its seats. Kauai has always been the Hollywood "heart water", can say that nowhere else in the world can be compared with. Movie journey in island more movies to stay here, and share the history and tourists.