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EP5: "You Need To Watch Your Jokes, Guy."
apskip:
I'm going to pose what for me is the dilemma of this episode and ask for ideas and comments on it. Teams will have gone to a glacier before getting to the Ushuaia airport, then fly 1000 miles north to Buenos Aires and several hundreed miles further north to Sao Paulo. Then they get on a place for an almost 9 hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean and most of South Africa. Then they change planes in Johannesburg and fly one hour to Maputo. It makes no sense for them to be again getting on any plane this episode and going another 405 miles northeast to work with the giant rats where the landmines are. I believe that some giant rats are imported to the Maputo area for a special, simple task so teams can finish the detour or roadblock and get back to the old Portuguese fort for the pit stop. If teams were going to go to the landmine area, then it would logically be in another episode since that area is on the way to Tanzania and Kenya. What do you think?
apskip:
I may have the answer to the dilemma posed above. It can be found on the APOPO website. APOPO is the organization running the landmine clearing operation further north in Mozambique, but its training base is here:
Mine Detection Rats
PO Box 649 , Maputo - Mozambique
Country office, Logistics and Training base:
Avenida da Revolucao, Inhambane
Tel/Fax: + 258 293 20 126 - Mobile : + 258 82 31 80 990
Inhambane is 300 km (190 miles) north and east of Maputo on the coast. I am guessing that it will be 4 to 5 hours by car or bus. That is doable for tired Amazing Race teams, even though it is equally possible that the rats are imported to the Maputo area for a special task. It is also possible that the rats used by the Amazing Race are not landmine-trained rats. There are plenty of rats around Maputo, some of which (cane rats) are part of the local diet.
puddin:
WTG everyone :happy:
What comes first Roadblock or Detour? Chateau can you guess from the Roadblock sun if its early or late in the day?
In the taxi scene Danielle says" I'm not touching any of these peoples feet." toe painting and Dirty/Digging are the Detour since the Rats are the Roadblock.
Now during the Roadblock Rats we see teams with trucks and they are maybe bunched for maybe Hours of operation.
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Chateau d If:
Wherever it is, it takes place early in the next morning on December 1st.
Probably a major bunch point where they all have to wait until 6:00 am. (That's what this solar altitude looks like: about 14 deg)
Hey, Puddin I was already on it!
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puddin:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on March 13, 2007, 10:50:11 AM ---Wherever it is, it takes place early in the next morning on December 1st.
Probably a major bunch point where they all have to wait until 6:00 am. (That's what this solar altitude looks like: about 14 deg)
Hey, Puddin I was already on it!
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:hfive: I should have known! :lol: ! I wonder why they wern't clued to drive the trucks to the Detour? oh well..
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