There's one location that we get to in the middle east where the teams are immersed in a daily
task that a lot of people have to go through. It's great to see teams
used to going down to the 7-11 living life in a completely different
way and certainly a way that people overseas have to cope with every
day.
The teams travel to Oman and endure the desert's piercing heat while digging for a clue. Phil Keoghan is the host.
The teams travel to Oman and endure the desert's piercing heat while digging for a clue. Phil Keoghan is the host.
And we all know what happened to the Pizza Boys when they had to dig in the sand in Egypt!
The minaret looks like it's from the corniche at Mutrah (source (http://danielschereck.com/wp2002/uaeoman/wp-mutrah.htm)). The fort (http://community.webshots.com/photo/261464303/1261492172048871983hTnZZx) may be as well, but I'm not ready to call it.
The minaret looks like it's from the corniche at Mutrah (source (http://danielschereck.com/wp2002/uaeoman/wp-mutrah.htm)). The fort (http://community.webshots.com/photo/261464303/1261492172048871983hTnZZx) may be as well, but I'm not ready to call it.
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The bridge behind R/Y looks like the Rion-Antirion bridge (http://www.hellascams.gr/intro_rion_bridge.html). The neon looks the same. Are they trying to find a different bridge?
Maybe they just walk halfway across the bridge to get a clue and walk back?
No title for EP 9 yet no promo yet :bny1: *SIGH*
NEXT TIME ON .. THE AMAZING RACE:
Ray: Let's find the f--ing bridge.
Yo: Ray, stop cussing at me!
Maybe there are some statistics on when and where it flooded in Oman last November.:tup: I;m having no luck so far .
Meanwhile, a lonely duo entertains themselves by invoking the ghosts of previously eliminated teams, doing hilarious impersonations of each to help pass the time.
This happened when the Weavers were Yielded TAR8 , just saying .
Meanwhile, a lonely duo entertains themselves by invoking the ghosts of previously eliminated teams, doing hilarious impersonations of each to help pass the time.
This happened when the Weavers were Yielded TAR8 , just saying .
Is this a hint that The Hippies are YIELDED?
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Nice match Boingo !!
here Mo is riding in an open vehicle /truck
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so the other detour is:bar:QuoteThere's one location that we get to in the middle east where the teams are immersed in a daily
task that a lot of people have to go through. It's great to see teams
used to going down to the 7-11 living life in a completely different
way and certainly a way that people overseas have to cope with every
day.
according to Phil's teleconference, (thanks to Twop)
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There's one location that we get to in the middle east where the teams are immersed in a daily
task that a lot of people have to go through. It's great to see teams
used to going down to the 7-11 living life in a completely different
way and certainly a way that people overseas have to cope with every
day.
F/B might be recycled from the beginning of Ep 2 (source (http://www.prodam.sp.gov.br/seme/semeepac.htm)).:meow: damn them , thanks Slowhatch! Good catch!
'Amazing Race' scrambles across Utah tonight
Article Last Updated: 11/22/2005
"There will be some prominent landmarks featured," promised the typically secretive Keoghan by cell phone from the set of the show's ninth season, now shooting "somewhere near the Middle East."
link (http://www.sltrib.com/healthscience/ci_3240634)
We might get a cap with the main intro next week. Personally, I'm hoping for a little frankincense and myrrh (http://arabian-archaeology.com/incense1arabia.htm) action from the race because they'll be in that part of the world. My few searches for Omani daily traditions has turned up only one time-waster: they spend a lot of time making and drinking their coffee. http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php?topic=7174.195
(I don't know about 'forging' a river but it looks like someone 'forded' their HS diploma.)Maybe it's another Herculean task. :lol:
Here is E&J's checkin time in Greece when they were proving to Phil that they solved the puzzle.
10:07 (?)
Quote(I don't know about 'forging' a river but it looks like someone 'forded' their HS diploma.)Maybe it's another Herculean task. :lol:
I'm thinking maybe the old guy (sitting in a boat? standing on the shoreline?) is Sur as well, but I haven't found any matching markers; I see things that look like bridge supports, but no bridge.
(I don't know about 'forging' a river but it looks like someone 'forded' their HS diploma.)
I see Fran & Berry in there!
Fran's Hands
(I don't know about 'forging' a river but it looks like someone 'forded' their HS diploma.)
I see Fran & Berry in there!
Fran's Hands
You can use Barry's bald head too but it is not as spherical and so it gets a different shadow near the top
Are there caps with better definition?
puddin, there backpacks are prob with the crew or in cars because they cant leave them around anywhere due to the obviousWell thanks for that info , now I could sleep tonight :lol3:
I think it may be one of the Ayjah towers, I'm guessing the northern one. Could the camels be there too? Sur is known for its tuna fish rather than its camels, but you never know.
I'd post it myself but the author says the pix are copyrighted
Pbase has some great pictures. This one looks like it was taken from the second tower (somebody's got to look after Puddin in jail :knuckles: :beer:). Could the digging be around there also? Except for the drive in, do we have indicators for anything outside of Sur?:lol: come and get me coppers
The Wahiba Sands,
The spectacular dunes that lie in the center of Oman stretching over 180 kms from North to South. Their colour ranges from deep red to rich honey depending on the time of the day. A unique and fragile environment, these dunes are static unlike those of the Empty Quarter which march forward as the wind drives them.
Teams do some mindless task on Rion Bridge which sends them to Athens ? to catch a flight to ?
Where do they fly into ?
As for the lonely duo passing time, I suspect it's E/J since they'll have many hours sitting at the airport.
Please forgive me if it's been mentioned already. Is Oman (Omar?) the country or a city in a country. If it's a city, which country is it in?
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I wish we had sharper image :bny2:
Well Puddin you make a really good case for that being Ray. Jo is also wearing a grey t-shirt and black pants. If that is a black beanie or cap it's def. Ray but it could just be Jo's dark hair. I duh-no. And I honestly can't tell if it is a white or black person. Note that Monica is pointing. She could be telling Jo where to go to get access to the tower.
If it is Ray then I agree with your first thought that when they are jumping over the benches they have completed the detour. That would mean it took them approx 1 hour to complete the detour and get back to their car. Since we don't see teams with any backpacks and we have shots of them driving, I suspect that they are instructed to lock bags in their car when they arrive in Sur. The detour starts and finishes on the fort side and teams must take the boat back when finished and go back to their cars to head for the roadblock? Otherwise, behind the scene crews would have to move their cars (which we know they have done before).
Maybe Raylonda are in the lead this week since previews made sure to show us they are in trouble
Well Puddin you make a really good case for that being Ray. Jo is also wearing a grey t-shirt and black pants. If that is a black beanie or cap it's def. Ray but it could just be Jo's dark hair. I duh-no. And I honestly can't tell if it is a white or black person. Note that Monica is pointing. She could be telling Jo where to go to get access to the tower.
If it is Ray then I agree with your first thought that when they are jumping over the benches they have completed the detour. That would mean it took them approx 1 hour to complete the detour and get back to their car. Since we don't see teams with any backpacks and we have shots of them driving, I suspect that they are instructed to lock bags in their car when they arrive in Sur. The detour starts and finishes on the fort side and teams must take the boat back when finished and go back to their cars to head for the roadblock? Otherwise, behind the scene crews would have to move their cars (which we know they have done before).
Maybe Raylonda are in the lead this week since previews made sure to show us they are in trouble
So where do the teams drive the camels in their pickup trucks?
So where do the teams drive the camels in their pickup trucks?To the Bedouin of course ! That Gman is the million $$ question ..a desert is a desert . Wahiba Sands ?
I wish we had sharper image :bny2:
u need the sharper image? sure thing
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So can anyone put this mess together. And don't forget they are driving Toyota SUV's through a flooded wadi somewhere or other.
The Amazing Race 9, Episode 8 Preview
by Jenn Brasler -- 04/19/2006
I can report that the teams are heading to the Middle East this week, specifically Oman. Conditions there are more brutal than what the racers have been used to so far. For one thing, the sun is unforgiving, and this leg’s roadblock requires one member of each team to be under it for a potentially long time. Will that hurt any of the teams’ chances of making it to the mat before the others? Or will they just play on as they have been?
Even though much of this season has taken place in non-English-speaking countries, the racers haven’t seemed to have much trouble with language barriers. They’ve always been able to find an English-speaker or muddle through with an attempt at speaking another language. Reading signs was probably not too much of a problem either, since Italian, Spanish, and German all use the Roman alphabet. But the official language of Oman is Arabic, so reading signs is definitely much more difficult there for English-speakers. Will this cause any problems? And will the Americans have any trouble getting Middle Easterners to help them out?
link (http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=4&article=article6105.art&page=1)
Jeremy leaved in Africa for a spell, what African language does he speak some of. Because in Oman a 2cd language is an African Language (that I have no idea how to spell). Stars with Swa....
an oasis is an oasis is a oasisTell me about it. I could only find a few pictures, and that's after I knew the name from reading the thread. The photo of Hawiyah is from a German model sailplane club page (source (http://www.mfg-markdorf.de/rekorde/050316-oman-3/)). Only after running some of the German through Google did I learn that the photo was taken (1200 meters high) from a camera inside the model plane; kinda neat.
Yes, he was a character!
Here is a "yield card" once alluded to by the Bowling Moms. At first I thought BJ&T have it here because they had to hand over all their stuff to Phil. But then I remembered that the Bowling Moms got mugged too. An they said that they lost their yield card by misplacing it and so they were never able to yield anybody for the rest of the race.
My new take on this shot is that BJ&T got it out to hand it over but were told they could keep it. From the looks of it I think it is an envelope with their picture inside. That is the picture that a team posts on the yield board when they do the deed.