After a problem at the airport put them half a day behind everybody else in The Amazing Race 24 Episode 5, Margie & Luke were eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Dave & Connor – 2:59AM
Second: Caroline & Jennifer – 3:27AM
Third: Jet & Cord – 3:35AM
Fourth: Leo & Jamal
Fifth: Jessica & John
Sixth: Flight Time & Big Easy
Seventh: Brendon & Rachel
The hours of operation at the Dutch Museum equalize all the teams. From there, teams will travel by train to Alawwa, Sri Lanka.
The road block requires teams to find four tuk tuks with the same colored marker, then fill them with gas.
Road block (in order of arrival): Rachel, Jamal, Dave, John, Big Easy, Jet, Caroline
Rachel misunderstands the task. She fills up green cars, rather than cars with green markers on their windshields. Even after being rejected, she insists on filling up more green cars. In order to take one of her cars that’s really his, John tells her what she’s supposed to be doing, or otherwise she could have been there for hours.
Everybody else is stuck in the mass chaos of hundreds of vehicles but only two fuel pumps. I could see where this task might be a bit trying, but there’s nothing here that should create a significant difference between the them.
Teams will now travel by train to Rumbukkana. Despite messing up at the road block, Brendon & Rachel manage to get to the train station in time to get on the same train as everybody else.
The detour is a choice between trunk or sheets. In trunk, teams must attach a chain to logs to haul them with the assistance of elephants. Sheets will have them making paper using elephant dung.
Trunk: Jet & Cord, Leo & Jamal, Dave & Connor, Jessica & John
Sheets: Flight Time & Big Easy, Caroline & Jennifer, Brendon & Rachel
There are only enough chains for four people, meaning the other three must do sheets whether they want to or not (only Brandon & Rachel actually chose to do this task originally). They got stuck with the harder task. The elephants are doing the bulk of the work on the other task, and they are trained exactly what to do, which additionally is impressive to watch. As expected, the first four teams to finish the detour are all doing the one with the elephants.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Mount Lavinia Hotel Beach, Sri Lanka’s first hotel.
First: Leo & Jamal (win a trip to Berlin, Germany)
Second: Jet & Cord
Third: Jessica & John
Fourth: Dave & Connor
Fifth: Brendon & Rachel
Sixth: Flight Time & Big Easy
Non-eliminated: Caroline & Jennifer
There’s a believable bit of drama when the Globetrotters get lost and are passed by Brenchel, but having placed last at the detour, Caroline & Jennifer come in last place but are saved by non-elimination.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 24 Episode 7, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.