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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #675 on: September 19, 2008, 09:28:08 PM »

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #676 on: September 19, 2008, 09:30:12 PM »
I can't get inside, lol


Maybe we need a time machine... this is what the inside "waiting room" looked like in 1998  :funny:

edited to add:   :lol:  same room, puddin...fresh coat of paint and rotate chairs left 90 degrees...  :funny:
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #677 on: September 19, 2008, 09:33:31 PM »
 :jumpy: well it matchs mine Boingo, mines from 2006  :yess:
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #678 on: September 19, 2008, 09:34:12 PM »
But the real problem are the times: if these are correct they have to take either the SN6 or the TN4. This may give us the bunching we need because look at the difference in times. Assume earliest teams will be released 5/24 about 5-7 AM, and latest teams maybe 12-2PM?
The SN6 takes about 19 hours, and the TN4 just under 24 hours.



http://www.seat61.com/Vietnam.htm#Train%20times  ** this site has lots of good info!!
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #679 on: September 19, 2008, 09:36:46 PM »
Somewhere I read that the train station was redone and became all computerized in 2007...
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #680 on: September 19, 2008, 09:38:32 PM »
Somewhere I read that the train station was redone and became all computerized in 2007...
Curse you  (:;)

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #681 on: September 19, 2008, 09:41:06 PM »
Somewhere I read that the train station was redone and became all computerized in 2007...
Curse you  (:;)

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #682 on: September 19, 2008, 09:52:23 PM »
I want to get out of Saigon as a matter of fact Vietnam all together  :lol:
I'm on page 80 of Flickr, only 49,991 photos to go before I find whatever it is I was looking for  :lol:
........any requests while I'm there?

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #683 on: September 19, 2008, 09:56:36 PM »
I want to get out of Saigon as a matter of fact Vietnam all together  :lol:
I'm on page 80 of Flickr, only 49,991 photos to go before I find whatever it is I was looking for  :lol:
........any requests while I'm there?

ummm... how about a drum...so big...fancy design...near invisible in Japan   (:;)

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #684 on: September 19, 2008, 10:23:49 PM »
I can't embed it but here is a nice train ride from our Saigon onto Hanoi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kFC4GG6Q0

and I just sent an email to Nam asking for some train station help, :lol:!
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #685 on: September 20, 2008, 01:12:34 AM »
I can't find the right name for the bamboo like background, does anyone have any ideas?



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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #686 on: September 20, 2008, 02:03:41 AM »
Why are we scratching around for Saigon's Train Station?

This is the place where Flo & Zack lay down to recover from learning about their 24 hour train ride to Hue in the final leg of TAR3:  the Saigon Train Station

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #687 on: September 20, 2008, 02:09:54 AM »
And I have another little issue:  This picture has been inverted



Just zoom in on the numbers.  In all the other shots of travelers on this bridge the curb is on their right.

It means I  will have to redo the time calculation.
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #688 on: September 20, 2008, 02:25:11 AM »


I see park benches. The stone kind. Is there a park near the perfume bridge?
Google Earth is cloudy.
http://wikimapia.org/5949733/Phu-Xuan-Bridge

thanks to farvest's vidcap

I can't find the gates but it might be ....

Trung tâm học liệu nhìn Huế Hue university but I can't be sure. I see the white painted tree trunks.


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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #689 on: September 20, 2008, 07:42:10 AM »
OK, it's time for some tough talk about the rail posilbilities. What is the major objective of the producers for this moment startin leg 3 of ARA3? They may have a different objective, but mine would be making bunching happen. Now we have the first 6 teams all capable of taking the TN2 or SE6 trains from Saigon to Hue. Assuming that there are seats on either one, a team would have to be stupid to not take the SE6, departing 1305 arriving next day 0808. There is no point in taking the earlier-departing TN2 except money unless ARA3 directives force them to. The final two teams (Mai/Oliver and Natalie/Pailin) may be able to make the SE6 but maybe not. If not, then they are stuck with TN4, which departs at 1545 and arrives next day 1520.

What is the end result? Less bunching rather than more bunching. The only way you get bunching is if all 8 teams can make SE6. I am sceptical about the use of trains. I think it is more logical for teams to get the 36 hour extended rest in Saigon rather than not getting 24 hours extra rest so they can take a long train ride.

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #690 on: September 20, 2008, 10:34:42 AM »
23 hours ago, Michael_McKay says:  (on the AXN forum) 
 
 
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Whatever you do DO NOT miss the third Leg of the Race.
After the second Leg the teams are exhausted but remember what I wrote earlier about this series being relentless?

This episode is probably the key to the network giving it the tag line - "The Toughest Race Ever", so don't miss it.

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #691 on: September 20, 2008, 11:58:03 AM »
 :sucks   For those of us who can't get enough info about buses, here's everything you need to know about buses in HCMC. 

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Bus in Ho Chi Minh city
Intercity buses depart from and arrive at a variety of stations around HCMC. Cholon bus station (Add: Le Quang Sung str.) is the most convenient place to get buses to My Tho and other Mekong Delta towns. It's one street north of the sprawling Binh Tay Market.

Less convenient than Cholon, Mien Tay bus station (Tel: 825 5955) nevertheless has even more buses to areas south of HCMC (basically the Mekong Delta). This huge station is about 10km west of HCMC in An Lac, a part of Binh Chanh district. Buses and minibuses from Mien Tay serve most towns in the Mekong Delta.

Buses to points north of HCMC leave from Mien Dong bus station (Tel: 829 4056), in Binh Thanh district about 5km from central HCMC on Hwy 13, the continuation of Xo Viet Nghe Tinh str. The station is just under 2km north of the intersection of Xo Viet Nghe Tinh str. and Dien Bien Phu str.

There are services from Mien Dong to Buon Ma Thuot (15 hours), Danang (26 hours), Hai Phong (53 hours), Nha Trang (11 hours), Hanoi (49 hours), Hue (29 hours), Pleiku (22 hours), Vinh (42 hours), Quang Ngai (24 hours), Quy Nhon (17 hours), Nam Dinh (47 hours) and Tuy Hoa (12 hours). Most buses leave daily between 5am and 5.30am.

Just for reference/comparison purposes only, below is the Mien Tay Bus Terminal (ticket counter) ...

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #692 on: September 20, 2008, 12:05:21 PM »
haha GMTA Boingo  :lol:
I know banzai has posted info on bus's in Hue but saw this in my travels

An Cuu station, 3km southeast of the centre along Highway 1, while buses from Hanoi and the north dump you at An Hoa station, 4km northwest on Highway

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #693 on: September 20, 2008, 12:07:42 PM »
Not a spoiler, more like a wish, that they use the dragon boats

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #694 on: September 20, 2008, 12:51:47 PM »


In that case, check for An Cựu and An Hoà bus station photos. Who know?  :duno:


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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #695 on: September 20, 2008, 02:42:36 PM »
More bus stuff--Dong Ba looks good for local bus trips too....next to the market

we need that red arch
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #696 on: September 20, 2008, 02:56:27 PM »
Stealing puddin's map :lol:



Possible route?

Arrive Hue train station
Pedal cyclo across Perfume River to Imperial Palace
Go to Citadel? I think perhaps they didn't go there-the only thing we have for Citadel is this from Shirley:
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That's the team (Mai/Oliver) who asked me for direction. I pointed them to the flag of the Citadel (which was the general direction they were headed for).

Take local bus to Emperor Khai Dinh's tomb (Roadblock)



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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #697 on: September 20, 2008, 03:36:36 PM »
Here peach  :jumpy:

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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #698 on: September 20, 2008, 03:43:38 PM »
I just spent an hour in the Dong Ba market but can't find the red gate or any shots of the bus station which is supposedly right next door. :pull
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Re: The Amazing Race Asia 3 Spoilers/Speculation (spoiler summary page 1)
« Reply #699 on: September 20, 2008, 03:49:41 PM »
Could also be Hai Ba Trung High School/ Dong Khanh
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