Locations From The Mission: Impossible Series You Should Visit

For over 25 years the Mission: Impossible film series has thrown Ethan Hunt into perilous situations across the globe. To celebrate the seventh franchise entry, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), we’re taking a look at the coolest destinations Tom Cruise has conquered, and the Culture Trips you can join to follow in his speedy footsteps.

Shanghai – Icons of China by Train

In Mission: Impossible 3, the ‘Rabbit’s Foot’ MacGuffin that Ethan needs to save his wife Julia is in Shanghai. During an extended sequence the film brilliantly portrays the beautiful juxtaposition of new and old in China’s largest city. Starting atop the incredible Jinmao Tower, one of the cities largest skyscrapers, which Ethan daringly – and almost calamitously – leaps off the side of. We’ll take you to the top of the tower on our China Rail Trip, including a skywalk which, don’t worry, is far less dangerous than a Tom Cruise stunt. What follows is a thrilling nighttime chase through Bund, the city’s famous waterfront, which you’ll also get to visit. Later on, Cruise is guided on an adrenaline-fuelled sprint through a charming old traditional waterway village, portrayed in the film as a suburb of the city. In reality it was Xitang, 96km (60mi) away. We’ll take a day trip to a similar water village, called Zhujiajiao, where you’ll get to go on a canal boat ride and explore the area’s beautiful old town.

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Next available from 24th Feb 2024

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Beijing, China

ENDS AT

Shanghai, China

DURATION

10

GROUP SIZE

16

PHYSICAL RATING

Moderate

STYLE

Discovery

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Hassan II Mosque on the coast of Casablanca, Morocco

Casablanca – Epic Morocco Culture Trip

In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), having already spent time in London and Vienna, we jet-set off to Morocco, where Ethan is on the hunt for a mysterious supercomputer. After a daring heist beneath a power plant, Cruise’s hero is chased down the Marrakech Highway by bike-riding henchmen. Later on, Hunt and Simon Pegg’s Benji – still being chased by bikers – are involved in a death-defying, car-backflipping crash right in front of the Hassan II Mosque. The mosque is the largest in all of Africa, and Casablanca’s most famous landmark. You’ll have time to visit it at the start of our extensive 11-day Morocco trip, as well as on our continent-crossing Madrid to Marrakech Rail Trip.

From US$2369

Next available from 10th Feb 2024

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STARTS AT

Casablanca, Morocco

ENDS AT

Marrakech, Morocco

DURATION

11

GROUP SIZE

16

PHYSICAL RATING

Moderate

STYLE

Discovery

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Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

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