{"id":799,"date":"2013-05-02T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-04-30T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T22:04:46","slug":"tatooine-closer-than-youd-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/tatooine-closer-than-youd-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatooine: Definitely Closer Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-hut.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1701 aligncenter\" title=\"Tatooine movie set in Africa\" alt=\"One of the huts seen in Star Wars on the planet Tatooine\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-hut.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-hut.jpg 620w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-hut-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInsightful Travels and Tours just put up a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itats.org\/hauntingly-beautiful-photos-of-abandoned-star-wars-set-photos-from-tunisia-and-morocco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> beautiful photo series and short article<\/a> about the abandoned Tatooine\u00a0sets from the original <a title=\"Star Wars Characters Built with Typography\" href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/star-wars-characters-built-with-typography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars<\/a> films which are still standing in Morocco and Tunisia. \u00a0The sets are still in surprisingly good shape, considering the movies were filmed over thirty years ago \u2013 as if you weren&#8217;t feeling old already.<\/p>\n<p>A trip to the still-standing Tatooine\u00a0sets would definitely make for a memorable (if not lengthy and hot) vacation and clearly you\u2019d have the best vacation pics of all time. \u00a0Of course, the middle of the African desert\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0all that easy to get to, but it\u2019s certainly much more accessible than a galaxy far, far away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1700 aligncenter\" title=\"Tatooine movie set in Africa\" alt=\"A shot of a Star Wars movie set during the Tatooine scenes\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tattoine-travel-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insightful Travels and Tours just put up a beautiful photo series and short article about the abandoned Tatooine\u00a0sets from the original Star Wars films which are still standing in Morocco and Tunisia. \u00a0The sets are still in surprisingly good shape, considering the movies were filmed over thirty years ago \u2013 as if you weren&#8217;t feeling 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