Board Thread:Survivor: Wikia - Season 1/@comment-5727798-20130119163316/@comment-5347660-20130119224243

Part of it is staged - notice things like they leave without lighting their torches, then when they get to Tribal they all have it lit. Plus in Philippines it seemed that it was always a full moon.

I believe they are told the location and taken there, either by boat, walking or transportation, much like for locations for challenges