what happened i was doing my jump shot oh my gosh as i jumped i felt that
i heard it and then i jumped again and then i was like what
what is that oh my god i can't fix that these are no good yeah i gotta try to return them
wow that just came out of nowhere with absolutely no warning whatsoever
here we are at the koi cliff you guys notice there's a rip here this is a terrible accident
that occurred from a jumping selfie that we took earlier earlier today as you can see behind me
we are here at the clay cliffs here in the southern canterbury region of new zealand
you might recognize these clay cliffs from that groundbreaking movie and for once i'm not talking
about lord of the rings of course i'm talking about mulan the live action movie by disney
rather underwhelming film i'm sure many of you watched it and found it to be quite forgettable
the only redeeming factor about that film was that it was filmed on locations all the mountains that
you see all the rivers all the lakes that wasn't cg it was filmed none other nowhere else in the
world than here the great country of new zealand the scenery is unmistakably new zealand and one of
those scenes was filmed here at the clay cliffs the first time i saw a photo of the clay cliffs
i recognized it right off the bat as we were driving up these rock formation these pinnacles
just kind of popped out of nowhere and they are kind of like a beige-ish looking color these rock
formations are the product of 20 million year olds gravel and silt just getting compressed and
condensed into rock and then through geological activity this rock gets pushed up out of the
ground and then through the process of erosion these pointy spire-like formations come about
they kind of look like the putangirua pinnacles but definitely not the same color because it's
composed of gravel and silt we can go in further so we're gonna check out more of these clay cliffs
so i might be wrong on this i haven't fact checked this but they did mention that they filmed a lot
of the scenes from mulan in the ahuriri valley and ling informed me that that is the ahuri
river down there so this might be the valley that they used
for some of the exterior shots with the landscape out in the background
well you could basically differentiate between the conglomerate regions and the silt
regions based on their color i guess the conglomerate would be the darker and the silt
would be the lighter sections but just up ahead we can walk in between are you taking a picture
i ruined link's picture okay once thing's done her photo we're gonna walk in between there
no this doesn't look familiar to you oh it's like unmistakably that shot
and see if we can make our way around
this incredible fortress of sandstone pinnacles it gets pretty steep up here
oh but someone kind of made makeshift stairs you want to check this out
cool oh it continues up there wow this is a playground
hey deb can you take a picture of me on the sandstone real quick
wait here you could come up this way love
it's actually less steeper if you come from around on it just continues this is very reminiscent of
putangirua pinnacles and just like the putangiru pinnacles wind and rain erosion means that you can
just run your finger along here and it just falls apart not reassuring standing right here very
unlikely but i mean you'll have the occasional rock tumbling down but there is that hazard
let's hope that that doesn't happen to me today what actually amazes me the most is that there's
look around there's nobody even here i know it's the season of covid and the borders are currently
shut down but mount cook we saw heaps of tourists but this place is practically empty it's almost
like people don't know that this place exists in new zealand and i'm sure with mulan coming
out this will soon become a very popular tourist destination without a doubt i think we've reached
the end of the road right here so i'm going to turn around and head back i do recommend some
good hiking boots or trail runners because there is a lot of gravel and it does get pretty steep
as you get towards the top so definitely keep that in mind if you decide to visit
whoa
i think i go straight
so there you have it that is clay cliffs it's a off the beaten path tourist type place which
isn't very popular right now at the time that i'm uploading this video for all you know when kovit
is over and the board is reopened this place will just be flocking with tourists but there hasn't
been a single person that came in here the whole time that we were here we're very fortunate to
have been able to experience it in this this sort of way and i'm sure most of new zealand used to
be like this until lord of the rings came out uh ling told me that when lord of the rings came out
new zealand saw a boom in uh tourism of 50 but thanks guys for watching i do appreciate those
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