Where They Went

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Directed by Steven Spielberg

In 1957 Indy escapes Soviet agents in the Nevada desert, then follows a young greaser and a crystal skull to Peru and deep into the Amazon in search of a lost city.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Hangar 51
    Hangar 51 (fictional)
    ≈ 00:01:00
    Stated on screenFictional

    Soviet agents force Indy to find an alien body in a vast military warehouse; he escapes on a rocket sled.

  2. 2Nuclear test town
    Doom Town test village (fictional)
    ≈ 00:17:00
    InferredFictional

    Indy stumbles into a mock suburban town minutes before an atomic test and survives inside a refrigerator.

  3. 3Marshall College
    ≈ 00:23:00
    Stated on screenFictional

    Pushed out of his job after FBI suspicion, Indy meets Mutt, who asks for help, and they flee the KGB by motorcycle through campus.

  4. 4Nazca and Chauchilla cemetery
    Nazca, Peru
    ≈ 00:41:00
    Stated on screen

    Indy and Mutt trace Oxley to a sanatorium and Orellana's grave in a desert cemetery and find the skull.

  5. 5Soviet camp
    Soviet jungle camp (fictional)
    ≈ 00:56:00
    InferredFictional
  6. 6Akator (fictional)
    ≈ 01:28:00
    Stated on screenFictional
  7. 7Wedding
    Marshall College
    ≈ 01:56:00
    InferredFictional

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
16,295 km
Places
6
Countries
2
Stops
7
  • Not shown: 9,896 km
  • Plane: 6,246 km
  • Car: 124 km
  • On foot: 30 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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