> Okay thanks... this is so unbelievably frustrating! Grrr! I just need to win the river chase... Each time I've gotten to the bridge they are always there before me.
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> The problem is that there's options that make me go the longer way so that I can go the right way. Such as I have to go into the palace then back out to have the option of not going in the dinghy or swim in the river but rather through the valley. Then when I get to the platform I have to go to the cliff, go through the bog, then it will only let me go down through the volcano. There's no other way to go about it! Any help?

now you can hit the programers w/ a wet noodle. in other words u can't get there from here. leave the castle and go to the platform. whee your at the gate. go down the volcano and east to the soothsayer south to grapefruit tree east and then north. go fast.

the platform u want is close to the giraffe. it will whisk you to the gate. after u go out the gate you have to go up and then down the south side of the volcano.