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I thought that it was common knowledge that fall/spring seasons tended to be in near locations...

Yeah this was discussed here awhile ago. Something about how after so many seasons, "Survivor" has amassed a pretty huge collection of props and whatnot that have to be shipped from location to location, so it's just easier (and cheaper) to have a season take place in a location that is somewhat close to the previous one, or at least a location that it's not too difficult to travel/ship cargo to. If you go to the Survivor Maps site and look at the image of the globe that marks each seasons location, you can see that the pattern begins pretty much after All-Stars. Heck, I think the biggest jump between locations since ASS is the current one from Micronesia to Gabon.

I doubt that they'd do another African location right after Gabon (although I suppose you never know - I wouldn't have guessed they'd do Panama three times either), so my guess for the location of Survivor18 would be somewhere in South America (a return to the Amazon?) or, God forbid, a fourth stop in Panama. Wasn't Survivor7 originally thought to be taking place in some nature preserve in Mexico? Perhaps they'll go there?

I just remembered the excuse that Probst gave for Survivor12 returning to Panama - because Guatemala had been such a harsh location for all involved including the production team, that after that they wanted to return someplace "easier" that they were familiar with. I can totally see them whipping out that excuse again after filming in Gabon is completed.

But yeah anyways, keeping this in mind it's fairly easy to speculate at least what region of the world the next season will probably take place in.