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The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation
Mrs Shrek:
Yay Peach! Thanks for following that up for me :hearts:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 18, 2008, 09:22:06 AM ---I wrote to Aravind about his blog shortly after that, and he has just returned from vacation and has very kindly has answered all of my (and others) questions about time and date and flight info in a new BLOG UPDATE.
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Mrs Shrek:
Still trying to straighten this out in my head, but if contestants were seen flying from HK to Singapore, and then flying straight on to India about 3 hours later, then they couldn't have had time to fit in a leg in Singapore. :duno:
Although Allen Wu could still have done his pit stop duties in HK/Macau, and then flown home for the suspected brief visit with his family, before continuing on to India.
georgiapeach:
You are so right Mrs Shrek! I totally forgot they were on the HK-Singapore flight with them first! :groan:
Okay ..back to an extended pitstop in Macau then?
Mrs Shrek:
Maybe. But with both TAR and TARA squashing the same number of legs into a much tighter time frame of around 3 weeks filming, as opposed to 4, I guess that extended pit stops might be reduced in number.
Askip: Could you point me in the direction where I could find your latest timeline please?
Is it possible that an extra (unknown) leg could be squeezed instead of one of the speculated extended pitstops, or is it just too tight?
The more I look at puddin's summary on page 1, the more I question the Saigon sighting as part of TARA3. It just seems too tight, and too back and forth between Thailand and Vietnam. It would mean consecutively travelling to a different country every single day between the 19th and 22nd, which seems just a bit ott, even for TAR.
Beijing May 18th or 19th
Bangkok Thailand May 20th
Saigon, Vietnam May 21st
Chiang Mai, Thailand May 22nd
Hue, Vietnam May 25th
Hong Kong evidence May 29th
Macau - May 31st
Cochin, India (via Singapore) June 1st
But if we drop Saigon, then we need to squeeze in another leg somewhere else along the way. If the Racers spotted in Chiang Mai were on their way out of the country on the 22nd, I guess there is really only room for one leg before Hue (assuming 2 days per leg), and then another one before HK - [speculation - maybe Taiwan???]
When was filming believed to be completed? If there are only a couple legs after India, then the likely hood of them having headed too far out of Asia is low.
georgiapeach:
I agree totally about Saigon but was able to (on paper) make it work here:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,15379.msg305005.html#msg305005
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 06, 2008, 11:09:38 AM ---Now moving on back to Saigon:
--- Quote from: JonLover on July 06, 2008, 08:45:05 AM ---The dates are getting confusing. :'(
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I agree!
Here's where we will have to a little changing around in our speculated times, but it is very nice to get confirmation of the dates!
I must admit though that I don't understand why they would do a leg in Saigon and then go to Chiang Mai and then return to Hue? That seems a little funny routing to me. I wonder if Saigon will actually turn out to be our race after all? But in any case, here's how I see that possibly working....
Leg 1: starts in Beijing on May 19 with teams spotted leaving Beijing at the airport on May 20; on their way to:
Leg 2: teams arrive in Bangkok on May 20 and are seen eating bugs in Khao San Road, pitstop night of 5/20 to departure 5/21 (cannot rule out an extended pitstop here until 5/22)
Leg 3?: unknown location becomes Saigon 5/21-5/22 vs extended pitstop in Bangkok until 5/22
Leg ?: Chiang Mai 5/22-5/23 tasks to include something extreme add a possible extended Pitstop here?
Leg?: Saigon 5/23 to 5/24 (possible +1 due to travel or extended pitstop)
Leg ?: Hue 5/24 to 5/25 or 5/25 to 5/26
Leg?: unknown 5/26-27 (possibly Taiwan here??)
Leg?: Hong Kong 5/28 to 5/29 (Pitstop 5/29 PM) with departure 5/30 to Macau.
Leg?: Macau 5/30 to AM 5/31 ? extended pitstop
Leg?: departure Macau to Cochin, India via Singapore AM 5/31 change to 6/1
So I do think on paper this can work but others will need to say if the airline routing is possible to confirm this. I just find the routing to be strange. :lol:
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