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The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation
ryaniiez:
Banzai, I already know what? :duno:
apskip:
What I already know is that thanks to the Wikipedia entry linked by Banzai, you can find out this about the Nissan Tiida:
In Taiwan it is produced by Yulon.
So that means that we will expect to see some of them in Taiwan.
apskip:
With the new information from episode 4 and the ep.5 preview, it is time to redo the ARA3 TIMELINE:
UPDATED ARA3 TIMELINE (modified October 4)
I now show 9 legs through Oman, so there are two more left to identify.
May 20 leg 1 begins; teams spotted late afternoon at Khao San Road in Bangkok
overnight tranportation to Chiang Mai is by one of 3 chartered buses
May 21 task in Chiang Mai, then pitstop;
leg 2 begins with pitstop release starting in the 10pm time frame
May 22 teams have tasks in the morning and then get to Chiang Mai airport in the afternoon for flight to Saigon
The first may be too early at 1225 1330. Any team that gets that will make an excellent connection TG614 BKK SGN 1540 1710. However, few teams will be able to do that. Most teams will be on TG111 1440 1550 CNX BKK. Their best connection option is TG686 1815 1945 BKK SGN. Only for teams that are not able to get bookings on that will it be necessary to take the flight through Siem Reap to Saigon. Teams do not go directly from CNX to REP as there are no schedules for that time frame. However VN848 has one stop in Siem Reap and is BKK SGN 1740 2125. As for Natalie and Pailin and others, they apparently do not make reasonable flights out of either CNX or BKK and are stuck overnight in Bangkok. For theCNX BKK segment, they will have many chocies and may take TG117 1915 2025 or TG127 2100 2210. In Bangkok the next morning their best bet is BKK SGN TG680 0900 1030.
May 23
So teams will arrive at Saigon airport from evening through late morning and then do tasks there starting at 6am to early afternoon
This includes tasks away from Saigon in the Vietnam countryside, but the pitstop is back in Saigon afternoon through late evening
May 24 teams on release from pitstop start leg 3 with a 25 hour bus ride from Saigon to Hue.
May 25 teams arrive late morning to early afternoon and do fairly short tasks around Hue. The start the pitstop late afternoon to early evening.
May 26 teams are released from pitstop in a range of morning times.
As leg 4 begins they fly Hue to Taipei via Saigon(Ho Chi Minh City) on
HUI SGN VN251 0910 1030 connecting with BR392 1255 1730 to get to Taipei
or possiblywait for SGN TPE CI686 1720 2145. Better flights through Hanoi to get to Taipei were not taken for unknown reasons.
The teams will be able to complete tasks before the pitstop.
May 27 Taipei leg 5 begins; more tasks; I think this will be NEL.
Extended 36 hour pitstop starts before midnight
May 28 extended pitstop
May 29 begin leg 6 Taipei to Hong Kong
There is an average of three 100 minute flights every hour from 6am to 6pm. My guess is they fly out around noon and arrive before 2pm.
tasks in Hong Kong
May 30 complete tasks in Hong Kong; likely to be TBC which starts leg 7 in late afternoon or early evening;
travel to Macau after taking hydrofoil in under 1 hour tasks;
May 31 tasks, then regular pitstop
June 1 begin leg 8; return to Hong Kong Airport by hydrofoil; fly to Singapore;
most probable flights are CX717 0855 1230 or SQ857 1030 1410 or CX739 1120 1505
then connect on to Cochin SilkAir468 SIN COK 2020 2215
June 2 Cochin area tasks, then pitstop in the evening
June 3 begin leg 9; fly Cochin to Muscat, Oman with choices of:
OmanAir 828 0715 0915 COK MCT
IndianAir973 1940 2140 COK MCT
COK to DBX Emirates 531 1030 1245 connecting in Dubai with Emirates 6478 DBX MCT 1810 1910
COK to BOM JetAirways 406 0830 1015 connecting in Mumbai with Jet Airways 808 BOM MCT 1730 1830
June 4 Oman tasks; pitstop
June 5 leg 10; fly Oman to UNKNOWN, possibly in Africa or Europe
June 6 tasks at UNKNOWN; pitstop
June 7 final leg begins; fly to UNKNOWN ASIAN CITY(which may require until June 8 to cross time zones by air) and Finish Line(maybe on June 8)
puddin:
I agree with you Anthonyctf, good job!
Allans blog is up
Picture Owner: Allan Wu
Blog Entry: Back to Taiwan
5/27/2008 5:12PM
puddin:
Blog
Back to Taiwan
Saturday, Oct 4, 2008 8:24AM / Standard Entry
When we raced over to Taiwan this leg, it was a little more special for me because this is where I pretty much started my life working in Asia. Before that, I was all set to become a starving actor in Hollywood. However, almost exactly ten years ago, I was offered the opportunity to move to Taiwan to learn Mandarin and become a VJ (video jockey) for MTV. Of course, I took the offer and it's been one helluva ride since getting bitten by the Asia bug...or lion
Now, this leg of the race was really challenging for everyone, especially the teams because they had to drive themselves in Taipei. It's tough enough driving in Taiwan already, but it's even more difficult if you don't speak Chinese cuz not too many people there speak English. Even though the teams found themselves driving aimlessly in all parts of Taipei city, our host team still worked quickly to pop off the shots we needed.
Along the way, we even found a small pocket of time to hit up Xi Men Ding for some grubbin Ay-Chung Mian Xian...
...and also one of my old favorites, bubble tea with "pearls" (but you can still find these outlets anywhere in Taiwan)...
After that, it was off to the pit stop to prepare for the teams' arrival. By now, some of the teams were working on the stinky tofu, which really is some nasty stuff. However, the task wouldn't be so difficult if the bowl wasn't so humongous. I think the amount that the team member had to put down was enough to put anyone down...even if it did taste good!
People always ask me how long we have to wait for the teams to arrive. If we're all lucky, the teams all come in within several hours so it isn't too bad. In this leg, I later found out we'd all be waiting until daybreak for the final team to check in. Our cameraman Yves was feeling the fatigue...
...I even started doing some meditation in an attempt to make the night "race" by faster.
Of course, waiting for the final team is the worst, especially when you start seeing the sun making its move up the skyline from the east...
And just as everyone is about to run out of steam, father and son team Niroo and Kapil finally arrive after a seemingly endless night and are eliminated. Even though it's always tough to see another team go, I could still put on a smile cuz we could all now get some much-needed rest...
And with this next pit stop lasting over fifteen hours, I was definitely going to need every single minute of our short rest before our call time.
Tell you all about that next time!
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