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After Leah said this, everyone suddenly understood. Even Yang Jing kept nodding his head. No wonder he felt familiar with this temple when he saw it just now. It turned out that those two famous movies were filmed here. The impression of "Indiana Jones and the Last Airbender" was a little unclear, but Yang Jing remembered "Transformers 2" very clearly. The tomb of the ancient leader of the Autobots seemed to be inside this temple...
But whether it is Spielberg or Michael Bay, their imaginations are quite broad!
The group stayed here for about an hour before walking out along the Sik Gorge. However, after returning to the small town of Wadi Musa, Yang Jing and his group did not return to the Jordanian capital Amman, but went south along Kilometer 35. Less than 80 kilometers to the south is another famous tourist attraction in Jordan, the Wadi Rum Desert, which has a beautiful name called the Moon Valley.
The reason why we have to go there is also due to Leah. In her words, going there can let you feel the loneliness and desolation of the moon on Earth. That place is the place on Earth that is most like the surface of the moon.
This reason was very good and powerful. Even Yang Jing was curious about how this place could feel the desolation and loneliness of the moon. So the group went there directly and settled down in Lum, the largest town in the Moon Valley.
The next morning, we drove deeper into the desert. The further we went, the more desolate and lonely we felt. This is a typical pure sand desert. At first glance, apart from the slightly red desert, there are all kinds of strange weathered mountains.
"There have been people living here for more than 2,000 years." Leah turned around and explained to Yang Jing and Gege from the co-pilot seat, "The Bedouins at that time lived in this area. There is also a temple built by the Bedouins here, but it is a bit far away and not as spectacular as the ancient city of Petra, so we won't go there to see it. Oh, and the movie Lawrence of Arabia, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, was filmed here."
After a tour, everyone's interest was a little low. To be honest, this place is really too desolate, so desolate that even though the scenery is really beautiful, it gives people a very uncomfortable feeling.
Yang Jing asked Leah: "It is indeed quite desolate and lonely here, but if you say that this place is most like the moon, I don't agree."
Leah asked curiously, "Boss, isn't the desolation and loneliness here like the surface of the moon?"
"Haha, it's really desolate and lonely here, but the color here doesn't look like the surface of the moon. I've seen many movies and TV shows saying that the surface of the moon is dead silent, and the color is also that kind of dead bluish-gray. But look at this place, where is the bluish-gray? And there are those weathered mountains. I think this place is more like the surface of Mars than the surface of the moon."
Morris on the side laughed, "Haha, the boss is right. Leah, you said before that this is the filming location of the movie Lawrence of Arabia, but I'm afraid you don't know that the area on Mars where Matt Damon planted potatoes on Mars in the movie The Martian is actually in the desert where we are standing now. So when the boss said that this place looks like Mars, I agree with him!"
"Really?" Yang Jing asked in surprise.
"That's right, Boss. This is indeed the main filming location for The Martian. It's right here in the Moon Valley right under our feet!"
I guess Leah really didn't know about this news, so she was also confused.
Gege took out her cell phone and tried to check if what Morris said was true. But there was no signal at all. It was indeed a lonely place...
In fact, Yang Jing's feeling was correct, and what Morris said was also correct. When the great director Ridley Scott was filming "The Martian", his first choice for the filming location was Australia. However, the local Australian government disagreed. Finally, Ridley had no choice but to choose the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan, which is known as the Rose Desert. As a result, the effect of the movie was amazing after it was filmed.
So, the place this desert actually resembles most is Mars, not the moon.