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lars homestead exterior

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Across the dry salt lake bed of Chott el Jerid is where Hungarian explorer Count Almásy (Ralph Fiennes) set up camp in the 1996 Oscar winner for Best Picture, The English Patient.

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star wars cantina exterior

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Ajim, a ferry port on the island of Djerba, Tunisia, was transformed into the streets of Mos Eisely for the filming of A New Hope. The exterior of the cantina where Obi Wan and Luke first meet Han Solo is currently an unused building in need of repair. Interiors were shot at Elstree Studios.

Some nerdy trivia: the full name of the cantina is Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina named after its owner, a wookie named Chalmun.

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bantha canyon

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Bantha Canyon (real name Desolation Canyon in Death Valley National Park) is where the Tusken Raiders mount their Banthas on Tatooine in A New Hope. The scenes immediately after this where Luke gets attacked by the Sand People were filmed in Tunisia at Star Wars Canyon.

The original Bantha was an elephant draped in fur with fake horns and is one of the few creatures that Lucas didn't replace with CGI at some point in the last twenty years.

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mos eisley overlook

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The cliff Obi Wan and Luke are standing on when Obi Wan first shows Luke Mos Eisley in A New Hope is located in Tunisia at the entrance to Star Wars Canyon. What they see though was filmed at Dante's View in Death Valley National Park. A matte painting of Mos Eisley in the distance was added over the view of Death Valley.

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lars homestead exterior

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The igloo-like exterior of the Lars Homestead from the beginning of A New Hope is located in the salt flats of south-west Tunisia. The crater the film crew dug gives the illusion of the underground courtyard that was actually filmed 240 km away at a hotel in Matmata, Tunisia.

The igloo was dismantled after the filming of A New Hope, but it was rebuilt in the same spot to be used in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. After the prequels it fell into disrepair, and some Star Wars fans raised money and restored the small building in 2012.

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