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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #50 on: November 01, 2014, 12:39:39 AM »
Chateau, unacceptable you didn't spoil this! You know what "casbah" translates to in French, don't you ;)

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #51 on: November 01, 2014, 03:08:49 AM »
That was one hell of an episode. :conf: :hearts: :conf: :hearts: Loving this season.


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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #52 on: November 01, 2014, 07:01:10 AM »
Phil just posted another pic on instagram here -- looks to be Morocco again.

I think the castle he's at is this one, there's some closer shots of it here but I can't for the life of me find what it's called ???

Whoops, turns out I actually had the right place. Compare this with the picture they all got given:



Even still I can't find anything about it being called "Casbah d'If". Makes me wonder if it's just WRP taking a jab at one of our own  :funny:

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #53 on: November 01, 2014, 10:35:50 AM »
Anyone have luck finding El Massi? I see a palmeraie across an east-west street where Brooke/Robbie and Shelley/Nici get off their taxis, but I'm still searching for the location...

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #54 on: November 01, 2014, 11:37:27 AM »
Wikimapia lists an El Massi, but I have my doubts.
I'm having trouble with Casbah D'if as well, even after CBS told us. Earlier I thought it might be this place north of Lalla, but some of the details don't match.


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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #55 on: November 01, 2014, 11:39:16 AM »
The thing is that from the bazaar where the carpet shop is located that point is only half the distance stated by some of the locals to the teams, according to Google maps.
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #56 on: November 01, 2014, 11:54:40 AM »
Can anybody tell what the greeter says to Shelly and Nici? It sounds more like " Welcome to samba diafa" than Kasbah d' If. Maybe the last is how the producers think it's pronounced?

Also, Slowhatch, the place you found looks a lot like the pitstop, especially if you compare it with a panoramic shot almost at the end of the show.

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #57 on: November 01, 2014, 11:58:31 AM »
Slowhatch, you have it! The roundabout in the front of the building matches up, as do the aerials filmed on the show. Oval found it in the Speculation Thread too (back in June!).

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #58 on: November 01, 2014, 02:37:02 PM »
It's 3:36am and I finally found it!!

The first clue to finding it is in the sequence where lead teams are riding the carriages. You see a bend in the road crossing over a bridge.
Behind the bridge you see some buildings with a tower. This same set of buildings can be seen in the background when Tim/Te Jay are lost.
The last clue is when Brooke/Robbie get off their taxi, across the street from a palmerie.

Combine the clues and you find the location, a neighbourhood labelled as Arsete (Arsat) Boumankar on Wikimapia just east of the Old Town.
(Edit: This name was printed on the clue, just that Shelley/Nici mangled it to become Al-Surat Bukmar...)
« Last Edit: November 01, 2014, 02:50:13 PM by Neobie »

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #59 on: November 01, 2014, 03:01:43 PM »
Nice!  :hoot:


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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #60 on: November 01, 2014, 05:23:17 PM »
The pottery shop sounded like "bessa beaucoup" but I found no hits for that. Since it looked semi-permanent from the caps, I scanned the road to Lalla and found this likely spot (viewpoint).

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #61 on: November 02, 2014, 08:07:32 AM »
I know the race looks harder than it seems on TV and not everything is edited in. But why did Shelley and Nici:

1. Not immediately stop to ask for directions when they obviously have no idea where to drive
2. Stop earlier at a location to ask for directions (like what they did)
3. Pay a cab driver to bring them to the pottery place

 ??? :stare :(

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #62 on: November 02, 2014, 11:36:56 AM »
I know the race looks harder than it seems on TV and not everything is edited in. But why did Shelley and Nici:

1. Not immediately stop to ask for directions when they obviously have no idea where to drive
2. Stop earlier at a location to ask for directions (like what they did)
3. Pay a cab driver to bring them to the pottery place

 ??? :stare :(

Agreed, no clue! They were sloppy and I almost think tired of trying to figure out directions everywhere. Getting lost is such an understated part of the race - you can be hella strong, a superfan of the show and know all the types of challenges, and be a fast runner, but if you go the wrong way? Tough luck!

I was really hoping for 3 female teams into the top 6, sadness. I'd like to see the remaining lady teams survive to final five now. Hopefully the dentists have to use their save soon!!
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #63 on: November 02, 2014, 12:58:56 PM »
When they finally asked for help they were at the Kenzi Club Agdal Medina (map here), so they weren't too far off the track.

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #64 on: November 02, 2014, 04:17:21 PM »
Teams are no longer alowed to pay cabs to lead them and have not been for many seasons now... Remember every "ask for help" is a time delay, each person has to sign a NDA. Figure 10-15 min per ask.
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #65 on: November 02, 2014, 05:33:38 PM »
Teams are no longer alowed to pay cabs to lead them and have not been for many seasons now... Remember every "ask for help" is a time delay, each person has to sign a NDA. Figure 10-15 min per ask.

But don't teams get time credits at the pitstop for such things?

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #66 on: November 02, 2014, 08:28:32 PM »
Chateau, unacceptable you didn't spoil this! You know what "casbah" translates to in French, don't you ;)

Pretty strange!   :funny:
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #67 on: November 02, 2014, 08:57:55 PM »
Teams are no longer alowed to pay cabs to lead them and have not been for many seasons now... Remember every "ask for help" is a time delay, each person has to sign a NDA. Figure 10-15 min per ask.

But don't teams get time credits at the pitstop for such things?

Not that I am aware of...see, it is THEIR choice if they want to ask a local for help or not.

Time credits are only given for CREW issues I believe...and those not so often anymore.
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #68 on: November 04, 2014, 10:07:26 AM »
But like in the leg they run around a market (like last season finding the wedding shop), if each time they asked, it took 10 or 15 minutes, they would take at least some hours there ???

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #69 on: November 07, 2014, 07:25:24 AM »
Sometimes they might be quicker, but you never know!!
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #70 on: November 07, 2014, 07:30:03 AM »
Neobie knows. :funny:

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #71 on: November 07, 2014, 07:41:58 AM »
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #72 on: November 07, 2014, 07:52:19 AM »
Phil just posted another pic on instagram here -- looks to be Morocco again.

I think the castle he's at is this one, there's some closer shots of it here but I can't for the life of me find what it's called ???

Whoops, turns out I actually had the right place. Compare this with the picture they all got given:



Even still I can't find anything about it being called "Casbah d'If". Makes me wonder if it's just WRP taking a jab at one of our own  :funny:

I have searched Casbah D'If till I am blue in the face...except for "Amazing Race" quotes, there is nothing....

So I think Chateau just got himself a Kasbah!! 
 
And oval...awesome job finding this, it wasn't easy!!  :wohoo:
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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #73 on: November 08, 2014, 11:12:13 PM »
Kym, on her Youtube channel, pointed out something I had missed while watching. Brooke/Robbie receive 2 apples; Robbie eats one and Brooke feeds the horse the remaining apple. Either the producers missed it, or they didn't think it rose to the level of a violation.

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Re: TAR 25 EP 6 "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" (Morocco)
« Reply #74 on: November 09, 2014, 07:30:03 AM »
lol go Robbie
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