Fortunate there still is a Samurai castle featured in the movie … and a Sumo wrestling hall.īond is in for a little Europe tour: First rescuing his soon-to-be-wife Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo off the coast of Portugal, he then travels to Piz Gloria in Switzerland. While the book lets Spectres superbrain wait in an old Samurai castle surrounded by poisonous plants, the movie had choosen a boiling volcano nest. James Bond travels to Japan to dismantle Ernst Stavro Blofeld. You can still visit the wreck of the Vulcan bomber including some decent sharks nowadays – and of course Emilio Largos villain villa including the shark infested pool, albeit without sharks this time. James Bond investigates the hijacking of two nuclear warheads and goes underwater off Paradise Island. Thunderball is all about the Bahamas with a little amuse-gueule in France. While the book brings him to Paris, the movie heads for Venice – with some stops en route in Belgrade, Zagreb and Trieste.Įccentric antagonist Auric Goldfinger allows us the biggest globe spin so far: From Miamis upscale hotel Fontainebleau to the British golf paradise Stokes Park and from the glowing Alps (and laser beams) in Switzerland to the treasure vault of Fort Knox.Ĭlick here for your first locations. 007 then boards the Orient-Express to escape Turkey. When Bond travels to Turkey to seduce a Russian spy, we get to see the touristic hotspots of one of Ian Flemings most adored cities – Istanbul. The movie settings are pretty close to Ian Flemings literary work, so there’s a lot of caribbeaness to discover. He gets to meet Honeychile Rider and later Dr. 007’s first adventure starts exotic: James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a fellow agent.

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