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EP8: "Honestly, They Have Witch Powers or Something!"
puddin:
--- Quote from: apskip on December 27, 2007, 10:26:53 PM ---
At 1130pm on July 23, I expect that teams would be near the completion of a 12 hour pitstop in the Mumbai metropolitan area, so even if there was a small amount of rain the effect on them would have been negligible. I expect that their next task would be going to the Mumbai International Airport to fly to Japan or Taiwan.
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I sure hope your right apskips, I'm pretty much sick of India. Beautiful people but what an ugly country, at least thats what I see after looking at thousands of pictures.
apskip:
Well I would not agree with that, puddin. I was there for 3 weeks and travelled 8000 miles by train over much of India(it's vast, so it would take months to see it all). There is incredible poverty, with begging happening almost everywhere you will be going. However, there are many serenely beautiful places and there is an interesting culture so different from anywhere else on the globe. If you go to India, you will be entranced by the beautiful places and you have to brace yourself for the poverty and the congestion of the major cities. To get the beauty you have to live with the negatives. We get a little bit of the beauty on The Amazing Race, but what India has is really spectacular. It will not be found at Bollywood or in the markets of Delhi and most surely not in Kolkata and not in downtown Chennai. Try Agra, try Jaipur, try Udaipur, try Goa, try the temples south of Chennai, try the majesty of Varanasi. There are hundreds of places, not you won't typically find them in the metropolitan areas where World Race Productions has set the race courses.
puddin:
I shouldn't have wrote the country is ugly, just certain areas apskips such as Mumbai. It's a shame that those once beautiful historic, majestic buildings have been forgotton. I guess, in my mind, I was hoping that we would see some place more exotic and was actually holding out for the Maldives, Jaisalmer, or Kerala to name a few.
michael:
Yeah IA with you puddin -- there are a lot of beautiful places in India but they always go to the ghetto ugly places.
mswood:
Yeah, too bad the producers always use India as "the Cultural" Shock of their season (Or someplace like Thailand or Vietnam in other seasons), something to really put racers into uncomfortable places and see how they react and hold together.
And while I do like that, I think they could (or should) also show the beauty and the more reflective areas of said countries. Which they often do with Vietnam and Thailand, but not really India.
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