Yep, hotel booking site Hotels.com has noticed a recent spike in destination services to none other than Wakanda. The sadly fictional nation home to Black Panther.
But really, you can’t blame them ‘cos the scenery in the billion-dollar-making blockbuster film is absolutely breathtaking and in reality, are the combination of genuinely beautiful cities like Busan in South Korea and bloody good CGI. Of course if you did want to fight to the yield/death in front of a brilliant waterfall, chuck in Iguazu Falls into Google for your next Eat, Pray, Love adventure.
According to the booking website, Wakanda Water Park in Wisconsin, USA has seen a whopping increase of 50 per cent in search results in the last two months. If you squint really hard and imagine a humongous waterfall then maybe you can trick yourself into being king of Wakanda…water park.
Close enough.
Funnily, the traffic surges don’t end in Wisconsin.
Wauconda in Illinois has also had a fair bit of the sussin’ treatment as its search result rose by 25 per cent. It’s peak lake country though and can get bloody cold in the winter.
And the list goes on:
- Makanda (interesting) also went up by 40 per cent. Makanda is a small village also in Illinois and will probably disappoint you a little as it is very different to the African plains of Wakanda. Makanda is still very green and serene though, just a different sort of green.
- Wakkanai in Japan has had a mammoth surge of 55 per cent of traffic and it’s still going. Wakkanai is also a notoriously chilly place.
- Wakaya Island in Fiji went up by 23.5 per cent and out of all the places mentioned, this is probably the closest you’ll ever get to seeing Erik Killmonger get his ass whipped ‘cos Fiji ain’t that far away from us Aussies.
Let’s be real though, this is all hardly surprising for a film that has touched so many hearts since its release earlier this year. So excuse me while I book my flight to Wakaya Island.
