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The Amazing Race 14 Speculation on Spoilers
apskip:
I have a hunch and I think it is the right time to reveal it. The centerpiece of going to Siberia should be - a ride on the fabled TransSiberianExpress, of course. In order to do that you have to have a segment that is short enough to make sense. There is a segment from Novosibirsk that will stop in Krasnoyarsk. I cannot obtain the schedule because the very-hard-to-work-with timetable does not accept the word "Krasnoyarsk", which should be valid. However, I know from the map that that is a longish segment. The other segment worth looking at is Irkutsk to Ulan Ude or the reverse. I am shocked by the fact that there are 11 daily trips in the eastward direction. I have to assume that there are approximately the same westbound. The length of that trip varies form 7 hours to 13 hours.
What I see as possible is this:
1. fly into Siberia to Ulan-Ude and have a leg there arriving probably Nov. 10
2. while there there was a heavy snowstorm that cause WRP production to call a 24 hour halt
3. the departure from Ulan-Ude would on Nov. 13
4. teams would then get one of the westbound trains from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk, arriving same day
5. there would be a leg in the Irkutsk area, the entry point to Lake Baikal
6. after what may have been an extended pit stop, teams are ready to depart before Monday Nov. 17 on the Siberian Airlines flight at 505am, arriving Bangkok at 1105am (which walkingpneumonia discovered when I missed it). However, after a date mistake was pointed out to me, it is clear that this is too late for the Phuket sightings on the 16th
The Trans-Siberian Express train schedule westbound from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk is:
Depart Arrive Duration
05:00 12:51 07:51
05:31 12:26 06:55
09:27 19:50 10:23
09:50 07:01 07:11
11:10 22:45 11:35
11:53 19:11 07:18
12:58 20:13 07:15
18:00 02:20 08:20
21:02 04:30 07:28
Just so the information is captured here, this is the schedule westbound from Krasnojarsk(I found it by altering its spelling) to Novosibirsk:
00:57 14:09 13:12
04:10 16:01 11:51
04:25 20:38 16:13
05:39 17:44 12:05
05:59 20:06 14:07
06:52 18:51 11:59
07:08 20:23 13:15
07:18 22:52 15:34
08:05 21:24 13:19
So, what do you think of that hypothesis?
EDITOR'S NOTE - the above logic disnitegrates when tehre is an error of one day due to Monday being the only day of the week for the key flight to Bangkok. This means that I need to redo the logic to focus on Krasnojarsk and Novosibirsk instead of Ulan Ude and Irkutsk. The concept of using the TransSiberian Express is intact. I am going to start fresh in a new posting.
walkingpneumonia:
I really like this Siberian itinerary - should make great TV. :yess:
I especially like that potentially teams have to read a train schedule in Russian in order to make the correct decision about which train to take - some trains that depart later arrive earlier at the destination, probably because they make fewer stops on the way.
apskip:
This hypothesis replaces the one above which proved to have a faulty date which scuttled the rationale for it.
Here is the proposed sequence events:
1. Departure from Bucharest Romania flying to Krasnojarsk, Russia probably departing Sunday Nov.9
Flight combinations choices are:
TK1444 OTP IST 1050 1215 connecting to TK1415 IST SVO 1335 1740 connecting to SU779 SVO KJA 2255 0540+1
9U9862 OTP KIV 1240 1350 connecting to S7158 KIV DME 1605 1850 connecting to S7071 DME KJA 2220 0645+1
RO343 OTP VIE 1610 1655 connecting to FV204 VIE LED 1750 2235 connecting to FV577 LED KJA 0050+1 0930+1
2. Leg 5 tasks in the region around Krasnoyarsk
3. Delay of 24 hours due to snowstorm?
4. start pit stop in Krasnojarsk on Nov. 12; release from it early on Nov. 13
5. TransSiberian Express train travel on Nov. 13 from Krasnojarsk to Novosibirsk (see below for details)
6. Arrival either late on Nov. 13 or early on 14th
7. tasks in Novosiobirsk on nov. 14
8. Begin extended 36 hour pit stop
9. Release around midnight becoming Nov. 16
10. Early on Nov. 16 fly Novosibirsk to Bangkok, S7789 0205 1020
Krasnojarsk to Novosibirsk Trans-Siberian Express Schedules
Depart Arrive Duration
00:57 14:09 13:12
05:39 17:44 12:05
05:59 20:06 14:07
06:52 18:51 11:59
07:18 22:52 15:34
08:05 21:24 13:19
12:36 01:12 12:36
13:00 02:24 13:24
14:37 04:19 13:42
18:26 06:47 12:21
23:36 12:38 13:02
TARAsia Fan:
--- Quote from: Hooky on January 04, 2009, 10:21:49 PM ---If anything, airport drama has already decreased to an unacceptable low. :(
--- End quote ---
From the recap point of view, airport drama is never fun and decreasing it is welcomed at this end. Airport drama to me has become so boring that you can skip that part of the show and not miss anything.
georgiapeach:
password, I think we reported that article first. Please read the threads, okay??
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,17788.msg367514.html#msg367514
wiki gets most of their spoiler info from us.... :sucks
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