Eight James Bond-approved travel destinations: on location with 007
- The fictional spy has some serious air miles under his belt, from Thailand’s Khao Phing Kan to Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica
- Venice, Hong Kong and Istanbul have all appeared three times, but where else has the action hero enjoyed a martini, shaken not stirred, of course?
More than half the world’s population has seen at least one James Bond film, according to estimates. We’re lured in by the promise of high-speed car chases, skiing shoot-outs, death-defying stunts and ingenious gadgets, but it’s the locations that steal the show.
Some cities have featured more often than others. Venice, Hong Kong and Istanbul have all appeared three times whereas 007 has yet to set foot in Australia.
Then there are places that were depicted before the Cold War political landscape changed. Belgrade (Serbia) and Zagreb (Croatia) were both part of Yugoslavia when From Russia with Love was released, in 1963, and who could have predicted that Bond would ever find himself in Azerbaijan?
From tropical beaches to iceberg-filled lagoons, audacious castles and spectacular city skylines, here are eight destinations where Commander Bond crossed paths with an assortment of fiendish villains, not to mention a certain bikini-clad seashell collector.
British naval intelligence officer and journalist Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond novels while staying at his Goldeneye estate, in the town of Oracabessa, Jamaica.
