![]() ![]() It's the same glacier seen in Bond movie Die Another Day, and about 20 miles east of icy landscapes seen in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.Īnother bit of British fakery has Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, briefly standing in for the steamy 'Cambodian jungle' as Lara sprints through the undergrowth. The 'Siberian' location is Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, formed by the retreating Vatnajokull glacier – the largest in Europe – on the southeast coast of the country, about 40 miles east of Skaftafell National Park and 250 miles from Reykjavik. It’s not a terribly long flight – the arrival was filmed on Salisbury Plain also in Hampshire (it’s costly to fly ’copters out to Iceland, which was standing in for ‘Siberia’. Lara boards the ’copter for ‘Siberia’ at RAF Odiham, in north Hampshire. The 1965 film of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, with Peter O’Toole, is one of the few other films to be shot at Angkor Wat. There’s no public transport between the monuments, so check for guided tours. ![]() The village was no more than a set built around a small ornamental pond.Īs Cambodia recovers from its troubled past, a modest tourism industry is beginning to blossom, learning to balance economic gain with inevitable concerns about the effect on the ancient buildings. The most famous, Angkor Wat itself (the largest religious monument in the world and a World Heritage site), looms over the Cambodian village. While Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is as cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable. The most spectacular temple of all, entwined with enormous trees, where Croft encounters the mysterious girl, is Ta Prohm. Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her. Lara Croft, skilled in hand-to-hand combat, must recover antiquities lost in a secret society. With Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarn Hinds, Chris Barrie. She tools up and scoots off in her Land Rover in front of the sacred Bayon Temple, in Angkor Thom, its 54 towers, each bearing four enigmatic smiling faces. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life: Directed by Jan de Bont. The Cambodian temple complex, where Croft must retrieve the half of the triangular MacGuffin, is at Siem Reap in Cambodia, where she arrives, with game-style ease, onto Phnom Bakheng, a hill topped by a Hindu temple (though the site later became a Buddhist centre). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider location: the temple complex: Angkor Thom, Cambodia | Photograph: iStockphoto / xuujie
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