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TAR 19 Speculation and Discussion *of SPOILERS*
Seattlite:
There are a lot of small islands around Phuket but other then beaches not much to do. You can look up popular James Bond beach for example. I still think the race has gone elsewhere.
Jobby:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on June 26, 2011, 12:56:44 PM ---Krabi, where season one went, is 25-30 miles from Phukit. As I recall, TAR 14 stayed much closer than that to Phukit proper. So it's also possible that flights to Phukit were the closest flights in to whereever they might have gone in the region.
I originally suggested the possibility of Krabi because of leg 10, and the show has never said there wouldn't ever be another Switchback, and, as I posted before, I think leg 10 of season 1 was one of the most challenging legs the show has ever done. But as I recall, there are a lot of offshore islands in that area (wasn't Survivor Thailand just offshore from Phukit?) so I think there are all sorts of possibilities.
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Krabi, Phuket.. BUT, I really beg to differ. Phuket is so popularized by tourist from around the world and there's no way a race is there without being spotted. The last time they went to the less recognised locations, so I understand. But other than those locations, there's no where else interesting on that island for a revisit except for Patong Beach and the downtown area, which there's many people.. so can't be nobody spotted them!!
And for James Bond Island or Phi Phi Island, it's really JUST small islands and nothing much there for you to do. (I've been there) There's no way an entire leg can be held on the small islands. It's literally, SMALL as the small suggest. LOL.
theschnauzers:
In the first season, leg 10 did involve those "small islands" as the teams never came near Phukit or the international airport until it was time for the final four teams to fly to Beijing. Since there's no evidence that teams flew into Phukit to connect to a different place by another flight, that wasn't easier to do by flying to that other place from Jakarta, the possibility of a leg in the area but away from Phukit proper, such as Krabi can't be foreclosed. Teams could have travel 50 or even 100 miles along the coast, especially towards and then south of Krabi with little problem. (I doubt they would have gone that far north along the coast north of the airport simply because of the border with Myrammar/Burma.) Again, just a reminder, the one leg of TAR Classic was away from tourist attractions as such and involved climbing and scuba, and kayak, and at one point, a provided piloted boat (to "Chicken Island" which is labeled on Google Earth, btw.) The whole leg until the pit stop at Pai Plong Beach was activity-driven and not touristy places as in TAR 14.
I'm open to the possibility of TPTB "reusing" that Pai Plong leg activities-type leg if not those actual activities at those actual locations. I'm also open to hearing if there are any temples in the area that might fit in the with other temples teams have already visited this season. Just another possibility.
I'm not saying that the Race definitely went to Krabi. But it certainly makes sense to stay away from the areas the Race visited in TAR 14, so looking further away makes sense to me as a possibility.
georgiapeach:
Sounds reasonable to me!
....needs to rewatch that episode...
Prophet:
I can't imagine they would do five straight Asia legs...
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