This weeks episode of Amazing Race 10 finds all contestants held up in Hanoi, Vietnam, waiting for information on the next leg of the race.
Erwin and Godwin, having finished the last leg of the race in first place, are the first to set out on this leg of the race, which see’s them cabbing to the South East corner of Ly Thai To garden. All teams will start this leg of the race with $50,000 dong or Vietnamese dollars.
The order in which teams starts is very important in Amazing Race and can dictate a lot of what happens from leg to leg of the race. The order the teams started in for this leg of the race was:
- Erwin & Godwin
- James & Tyler
- Rob & Kim
- Dustin & Kandice
- Peter & Sarah
- Lyn & Karlyn
- David & Mary
- Tom & Terry
Once teams arrive at the SE corner of Ly Thai To garden they must listen for an announcement which will tell them where to go next. One by one each team determines the sound is coming from a statue and they crowd around it to hear what it says. The announcement tells them they must take a taxi across the Red River to Ben Xai Cai Lai, where they will find a bus station. They must then take a bus to Ha Long Bay and find Hydroform Tavern.
As usual, since the teams started this leg of the race in the middle of the night, the bus depot is closed, allowing all teams enough time to catch up. All teams are even, as a result, and sit around waiting for the first bus to Ha Long Bay.
Once at Ha Long Bay the teams run into a Roadblock. This roadblock is going to be a toughy and will see one member of each team ascending a straight faced cliff using a mechanical ascending device, sort of like repelling, only the complete opposite.
The first team to arrive at the roadblock is Rob & Kim and Rob elects to scale the rock face. Because they some how managed to get a pretty good lead, Rob is the first to complete the roadblock challenge and learns that the next leg of the race will be for all teams to travel, via motorboat, to Sung Sot Cave.
For whatever reason, when Sarah & Peter arrive at the Roadblock, Sarah elects to scale the wall and wastes valuable time trying to do so, though she eventually manages to power through it and get to the top. That is one tough girl and she doesn’t give up.
Detour
Over:
- Paddle a row boat to a supply boat
- Load your boat with supplies
- Deliver the supplies to the designated people in the nearby floating village
- Return to the supply boat with a signed invoice
Under:
- Paddle a row boat to a pearl/oyster harvesting area
- Choose a line of booeys and harvest oyster baskets along that row
- Each team must harvest a total of 30 baskets and return them to the vendor boat
Rob & Kim manage to maintain the lead going into the Detour and elect to do the Under challenge. After plenty of bickering, fighting and near overboards, they manage to finish the challenge first and return to the vendor boat with 30 oyster baskets. At the oyster boat they learn that they must return to the main boat and be taken to Soi Sim Island, where they will find the pit stop for this leg of the race.
Tom & Terry chose to do the Under challenge as well, which was a big mistake for them. Neither of them could paddle the row boat properly and they were having a terrible time trying to get the oyster baskets. After finally retreiving all the baskets, they couldn’t manage to paddle themselves to the oyster boat, so Tom jumped out of the row boat and pulled the boat behind him as he swam the boat, oysters and Terry to the oyster boat. Now That’s dedication! That was really impressive.
Lyn & Karlyn run into their own set of problems while doing the Over challenge. Neither of them is any good at rowing the boat either and they end up spending a lot of time fighting the wind and getting friendly with the rocks.
In the end, all the teams made it to Soi Sim Island safe and sound. It’s just a matter of what order they finished in:
- Rob & Kim
- Peter & Sarah
- Tyler & James
- Erwin & Godwin
- David & Mary
- Lyn & Karlyn
- Dustin & Kandince
- Tom & Terry
I could have sworn this leg of the race was going to be a freebie with no team being eliminated, but I was wrong. Tom & Terry came in last and were eliminated from Amazing Race 10. It really is a shame that they got eliminated, they worked really well together and were friendly with the other teams. I really liked these guys, but that’s the way the race works. At least it’s almost gauranteed that the next leg of the race will be a freebie. There’s no way they’ll go five episodes without an elimination free leg.
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