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apskip:
Here's something that can go in the Final City info:

Anthony Bourdain went to the Pacific Northwest years ago to do a show; almost half of that show was Portland OR. Most of what he presented on the show was of no interest to the episode 11 finale, but one item struck me as something the AR13 tasks in Portland could have included. This is Underground Portland, which was shown in Bourdain's video as a series of tunnels under Portland leading to the waterfront from which individuals who were Shaghai'ed could be secretly sent on board ships. Here is the list of what is included in teh Walking Tour of Underground Portland:

The last remains of the hundreds of cast-iron buildings that once graced this city until they were ripped out to build a highway.
Locations of the Simpsons-Portland connections, including the polluted river where the Simpsons TV show originated Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish
A 24 hour doughnut shop and wedding chapel
A journey into the bowels of the city to view entrances that once led to the legendary “Shanghai Tunnels” and understand the facts from below the floorboards of neighborhood landmark Old Town Pizza
Obscure shops selling Chinese medicines and herbs that even today face hassles from the government and from skeptics
The site of a famous riot instigator called the "the most arrested man in the Northwest"
Storied sites and buildings, once host to illicit deals and doings, that survived countless floods and remain today as some of our treasured restaurants, clubs, bars and office spaces
The somber monuments and plaza remembering local and nationwide efforts to isolate and evict more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II

The link is PortlandUndergroundTours

georgiapeach:
Thanks apskip!

:bump for Salvador

apskip:
Peach, here's some information on Mt. Maunganui, which is a grand 250 meters high:

Mt Maunganui
Beach settlement, part of Tauranga city, on the sandy expanse between Tauranga Harbour and the Pacific Ocean. It was named after the mountain (252 m) at the harbour entrance.

This may have been the site for AR13 teams to do tasks on May 2. It is about 125 miles from Auckland, so it would involve a lot of road travel to get there and back, probably at least 5 hours round-trip.

apskip:
Peach, another possibility for where AR13 teams were on May 2 is Mangere Mountain, near Auckland International
Airport:

On Mangere Mountain, just minutes from Auckland International Airport, you can see the remains of what was once an extremely large eighteenth century Maori fortified settlement, or pa. Low stone walls radiate out from the base of the mountain, the remnants of the major Maori land boundaries that once divided the landscape into large pie-shaped pieces.

These boundaries marked out gardens, houses and other living areas. There are scores of house and garden terraces, walled garden mounds, stone boundary walls and kumara storage pits around the crater. 

A series of cast iron and basalt sculptures placed around the mountain show what life was like there, including what foods were eaten and how they were cultivated, caught and stored.  A one hour 'land marker' walk follows the sculptures (see the self-guided walk brochures below).

Four large paintings by local artist Chris Gaskin, which are sited near the education centre at the base of Mangere Mountain, also depict life there, from the time of the last eruption 40,000 years ago, through 500 years of continuous Maori settlement, to the pastoral farms of European settlers.

Slowhatch:
While searching for photos of siem reap bus stop (no matches yet) I happened to find this map of the city; of course you already have maps of the Angkor Wat complex.

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