Rambukkana, SG

destination • experience

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage

The availability of animals can determine a location and so the elephant ride to the ‘Palace of Pankot’ takes advantage of the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. With over 60 elephants, it’s the largest captive herd in the world, established in 1975 as an orphanage, nursery and captive breeding ground for wild Asian elephants.

Macau, MO

destination

Macau

The ‘Shanghai’ exterior in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, is actually Macau, a former Portuguese colony on a peninsula over the Pearl River Estuary from Hong Kong.

CP, Sri Lanka

destination • experience

Victoria Dam

This dam in Sri Lanka was used in the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the rope-bridge, which was built across a 300 foot-deep gorge downriver from the Victoria Dam north of Kandy. As the dam was still under construction, there was a convenient supply of engineers and equipment to string the bridge.

Mammoth Lakes, CA

outdoors

Mammoth Mountain

The ‘Himalayas’, where Indiana Jones & co in the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom film are forced to improvise an escape after the crew abandons the plane, are the peaks of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, in Mono County, central California. Avoiding a premature ending to the film, the life raft conveniently touches down on the resort’s Crest Ridge Run.

Macau, MO

destination

Rua da Felicidade

The entrance to the club in the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was on Rua de Felicidade, near to the famous Floating Casino in the rather sleazy Inner Harbour district.