Also used for some “beyond the wall” footage. Featured in season 7, episode 5 “Eastwatch” Höfðabrekkuheiði hiking area in Vik/Frostfangs.Featured in season 6, episode 5 “The Door” and also in season 7, episode 6 “Beyond the Wall” Featured in season 4, episode 3 “Breaker of Chains” Featured in season 4, episode 5 “First of His Name” and also in season 4, episode 8 “The Mountain and the Viper.” Found in Bláskógabyggð municipality, in the southwestern area of Iceland. Þingvellir National Park/Thingvellir National Park.Featured in season 4, episode 10 “The Children.” Featured in season 4, episode 6 “The Laws of Gods and Men.” Þórufoss Waterfall, Thingvellir national park, situated right on the Laxá í Kjós River.W HAT IS THIS, YOU SAY? I fell hard into that Google search, realizing that several pivotal Game of Thrones filming locations were right in Iceland. You guessed it, Game of Thrones filming locations. While researching this much-needed vacation, I stumbled across the best Google search of all time. Iceland is meant to be photographed in color, black and white, digital, film, who cares. We meticulously planned a trip that would take us around the famed Ring Road in a week, booking AirBnB stays and guesthouse visits along the way. This was to be our first late-summer excursion, and we were so happy and excited. We’ve been in love with this marvelous country for a few years now, visiting it twice in the winter. With those days getting closer, I decided it was time to take my last precious week of quiet time and head off to Iceland with my oldest daughter. Fall wedding season is a marvelous rush towards the winter, an exhilarating time full of weddings, engagement sessions, portraits, and celebration after celebration. The “on” season is every single other month, with a special concentration on May, June, August, September, and October. In the northeast, the “off” season is July, January, February, March, and the first part of April. For those of you in our wonderful wedding industry, you know that we have “on seasons” and “off seasons”. It was around this time that fall wedding season loomed near. “Who is that person?” led to “WHY HAS THAT PERSON NOT KILLED THAT OTHER PERSON YET?” and “OH MY GOD DO NOT DO THAT THING!” and too many hours spent watching and re-watching Joffrey’s wedding to figure out whodunnit. One episode led into another, into another, into another. And that, my friends, is how I lost about a week of my life. (Also, the same people who told me I’d love The Walking Dead simply INSISTED that I would love Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead is terrible, so I promptly ignored their other suggestion.)Īfter being pestered by enough friends to get started, I downloaded the first book onto my Kindle, fired up my HBO GO, and it was off to the races. nine thousand Game of Thrones characters. When I turn to TV, it’s to turn off my brain, not try to figure out the tangled relationships of the approx. I’m super busy with weddings and running The Wedding School. I am not sure why I avoided GoT for so long. But with a title like “Game of Thrones Location Photos : Jon Snow + Ygritte Cave” you know this blog post will be a worthy (and humorous) read… Iceland made the first appearance in the series in Season 2 when Jon Snow was captured by the Wildlings and then came with breathtaking shots in Season 3, 4 and 7.Go ahead and be super surprised, but I’d never seen a single episode of Game of Thrones until August of 2017. This country of fire and ice has a gorgeous landscape with glaciers and waterfalls, volcanoes and lava fields, gigantic rock formations and sea stacks, that make it just the exact world for a show like Game of Thrones. With the wintery snowy backdrop of Iceland, they could see no other place better than it to create a make-believe world for White Walkers and Wildlings. GOT producers wanted an idyllic and a real-world setting to illustrate the frozen brutal world and severe circumstances of life Beyond the Wall. Iceland’s dramatic weather conditions, daylight hours, wilderness, and the fact that it’s situated near Arctic Circle offers outstanding lighting conditions for videography, with an added advantage of continued ‘Golden Hour’ of photography. The beautiful Iceland locations have been featured in many popular TV series and movies like Batman, Star Wars, Interstellar, and of course Game of Thrones. Iceland has long been a famous filming spot.
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