The Mojaba Club in Cairo was a studio set. Both locations are situated in the neighborhood “Darb al-Ahmar” – the Red Alley ( this is our intel on the area).īonds contact, Fekkesh, gets killed by Jaws in a tomb at the Giza necropolis, a vast complex east of Cairo with the three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx ( read our story here about how to bargain your way through Giza). The museums roof, where Bond has a fight, still looks the same. It is the todays Gayer-Anderson-Museum next to the Ibn Tulun Mosque. The site is famous for Egypts oldest pyramids, but the oasis scenerey changed a lot in the years.īond gets a contact, Fekkesh, and heads to his beautiful oriental mansion in downtown Cairo. The shot had been filmed at Saqqara oasis (which we visited here) one hour south of Cairo. He first visits an old Oxford friend in a bedouin tent in the desert. It is Faslane Naval Base northeast of Glasgow at Gare Loch.

In Scotland, Bond is briefed at a naval base about submarines. Asgard Peak is situated in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island up in the Artic. That is Asgard Peak, part of a mountain range named after norse gods and places in Canada. When Bond heads for the cliff though, a huge table mountain is revealed. The opening ski stunt is supposed to be at “Berngarten” in Austria – but had been filmed at Piz Bernina in Switzerland.

Where was the movie spy filmed