The World is Waiting for You: A Brief Obsessive Guide to The Amazing Race 1st Edition By David A. Bindley CONTENTS AUSTRALIA Season Seven 84 Season One 3 Season Eight: Family Edition 86 Season Two 7 Season Nine 90 Season Three: Australia vs. New Zealand 10 Season Ten 93 BRAZIL Season Eleven: All-Stars 96 Season One 14 Season Twelve 98 CANADA Season Thirteen 100 Season One 17 Season Fourteen 103 Season Two 19 Season Fifteen 106 CHINA Season Sixteen 109 Season One 23 Season Seventeen 112 Season Two 25 Season Eighteen: Unfinished Business 115 Season Three 28 Season Nineteen 118 Season Four N/A Season Twenty 122 FRANCE Season Twenty-One 125 Season One 32 Season Twenty-Two 128 ISRAEL Season Twenty-Three 132 Season One 35 Season Twenty-Four: All-Stars II 135 Season Two 38 Season Twenty-Five N/A Season Three 43 VIETNAM Season Four N/A Season One 139 NORWAY Season Two 142 Season One 50 Season Three 145 Season Two 54 REGION: ASIA PHILIPPINES Season One 149 Season One 58 Season Two 152 Season Two N/A Season Three 155 UKRAINE Season Four 158 Season One 62 REGION: LATIN AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Season One 163 Season One 66 Season Two 165 Season Two 68 Season Three 168 Season Three 71 Season Four: Brazilian Edition 171 Season Four 75 Season Five 173 Season Five 78 Season Six: Ecuador Edition N/A Season Six 81 NOTES: Italicised titles are taken from official sources, mostly onscreen graphics. Where versions aired in languages other than English, official titles are used only for Detours. Road Block hints in these versions are approximately translated into English where possible, with unofficial English titles for Detour given in task details and unofficial titles used elsewhere. The five seasons marked as unavailable above were either airing at the time of writing or have started since this guide was finished, and will be added to future updates. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Australia Season One Reference Title Location Details Who is your tower of strength?: Climb the interior ladders up one of the MCG's arau0101rb Abseil Light Tower Australia lighting towers, grab a clue, then free rappel 75m back down. Towers are first come first served. Upon arrival in Lombok, search the fishing village where the ferry arrived for a arau0101ri1 Nothin' But Net Indonesia hidden clue. Travel to Pura Lingsa and run across a courtyard to the clue while locals pelt you arau0101ri2 Rice to Meet You Indonesia with powdered rice. Cash: Prepare and sell fifteen bowls of bakso for a minimum price of 5000 rupiah each. Carry: Collect a basket of produce from one market stall and take it to a second by balancing it on your head. No hands. arau0101dt Cash or Carry Indonesia Both first require travelling to Mandalika Market. No hands, but apparently wearing a hat under the beanbag used to balance the baskets was fine. Travel by taxi and boat to Gili Trawangan, snorkel in a marked area to find a submerged briefcase, then bring it back to shore and count the Indonesian currency inside. Each case has a different total. arau0101ri3 Offshore Holdings Indonesia Non-elimination; the spared team will get a 30-minute penalty if they do not win the next leg. The leg winners get an Express Pass for use before the end of Leg 8. Upon landing in Ho Chi Minh City, travel to its opera house and search the women walking around outside for the one holding a fan with your names on it. arau0102ri1 Fandemonium Vietnam In keeping with the tradition of using alternate race flags in Vietnam because the usual one is too similar to the former flag of South Vietnam, throughout this leg the flags are green and gold instead of red and gold. Choose a waiting jeep, then replace its tyres and change its oil. Dipsticks and arau0102ri2 Vietnam their Cars The jeeps are used to travel in for the rest of the leg, with drivers provided. Carry Fowl: Travel to a chicken farm, catch 20 chickens in a pen, then use Carry Fowl arau0102dt Vietnam shoulderbaskets to take them to the local market. Carabao: Travel to a farm and or Carabao use an ox plow to find one of several race flags buried in a muddy field. Who's in line for a king's ransom?: Ride in your jeep to Minh Mang Tomb and collect seven coins representing Nguyen emperors from tables around the complex, then return and perform a mystery task: putting them in chronological Arrange Coins arau0102rb Vietnam order as hinted to by the signs on each table. in Order For unknown reasons, the blue graphics used for regular tasks are used here instead of the red graphics used for Road Blocks. Upon landing in Hong Kong, travel to Jumbo floating restaurant and bite through arau0103ri1 Luck of the Chinese China a pile of fortune cookies on a table to find one with a specific message inside. Each team has its own table. Travel to Tin Hau Temple in Causeway Bay and complete a mystery task: having arau0103ff Head Shave China both your heads shaved. Lion Dance: Learn and perform a fast-paced two-person lion dance routine. Kung Fu Stance: Learn and perform a series of slow-paced kung fu moves, then Lion Dance or Kung arau0103dt China each punch through a stack of six clay tiles. Fu Stance Both first require travelling to Walled City Park in Kowloon. Upon arrival in Macau, travel to the Venetian and win ten hands of baccarat against a dealer. arau0103ri2 To Hell and Baccarat China Each win awards teams a lettered mahjong tile (because China) which spells the next destination... but they get a regular clue at the end, defeating the purpose. Who can crack the animal code?: Use a series of logic puzzle-style hints to place arau0103rb Zodiac Game China twelve lanterns marked with the Chinese Zodiac animals on a pair of rails in the correct order to enter the adjacent Pit Stop courtyard. Smash: Taking turns, throw knobkieries to break a total of four hanging clay targets. Bash: Build a giraffe feeder to match the example shown. (This Detour has a U-Turn attached.) arau0104dt Smash or Bash South Africa Both first require driving to Kragga Kamma Game Park. Since it's 300km just to reach the cluebox on a cliff and 300km back, it appears as though it's a six-hour drive just to ensure teams are bunched at the start of the task; it's more likely it's to ensure teams don't arrive at the wildlife park Pit Stop at night. Who wants to take the plunge?: Bungy 216m from the Bloukrans Bridge. arau0104rb Bungy South Africa First requires driving to said bridge. Drive to Nomathamsanqa and collect a goat from a pen, then deliver it to a sangoma at the other and receive a traditional blessing. arau0104ri Haulin' Goats South Africa Odd for the show to call sangomas “witch doctors”. Who's up for a birds' eye view of Cape Town?: Tandem skydive with a local jumpmaster from 9000 feet. arau0105rb Tandem Skydive South Africa First requires driving to Melkboss Airstrip. Drive to Kargo Warehouse and attach a trailer to each of your cars, fill them with arau0105iri Children in Need South Africa supplies, and deliver them to Intyatyambo Orphanage. Guns: Skeet shooting. Drive to Valley Gun Club and shoot a total of nine clay targets, switching shooter every five shots. Rosé: Drive to Nelson's Creek winery arau0105dt Guns or Rosé South Africa and transport an empty barrel across a vineyard, then use buckets and a funnel to fill it with red wine from a nearby vat. Drive to Atlantis Dunes and ride quadbikes along a course with fifteen covers along the way, lifting one at a time to reveal either a clue or an hourglass. It is not arau0105ri Sands of Time South Africa required to lift every cover; find an hourglass and wait for the sand to run out before continuing. Hourglasses are different sizes. Upon landing in Amsterdam, travel to the Oud Hollands Gebakkraam food cart and each eat two appelbollen. Teams aren't told that the first four to finish win sleeper seats on an overnight train to Prague while the others spend the trip in regular seats. arau0106ri Apple of My Ire Netherlands Teams change trains in Berlin, with Germany listed as a visited country in the pre-season promotions, but there are no tasks there and it is not in the race memory task in the season finale. Either it's creative accounting, or it was a deliberate substitute for political reasons as a task later in the race was held in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank region of Palestine. arau0106cc Saint Misbehavin' Czech Republic Travel to Charles Bridge, where “the holey statue will lead you to your next clue.” Chivalry: Put on suits of armour and search Old Town Square for a keymaster, take a key from him, then find a damsel in distress “at the Prince” and give it to arau0106dt Chivalry or Delivery Czech Republic her. Delivery: Collect a litter with a child inside from St. Agnes Convent and carry her through the streets to Old Town Square. Whose aim is true?: Archery. Hit a small target twice within 40 arrows, earning a $50 bonus for each bullseye; fail and either beg other teams for arrows or take arau0106rb On Target Czech Republic the quitting penalty. First requires travelling to a mock medieval camp on Strelecky Island.