Amazing Race 2011: Who got eliminated in Season 19 Episode 5?
The Ledger-Enquirer live blogged the Amazing Race Season 19 Episode 5. See a full recap below:
Amani and Marcus are first place. Liz and Marie are last place and are eliminated from the race.
The Fifth Leg of the Amazing Race starts at the floating village of Koh Panyi .Andy and Tommy learn they must travel by taxi to, essentially, an elephant taxi station. Once there, they'll take an elephant down a river to their next clue.
Andy and Tommy have no problems reaching the elephant and are soon riding down the river on its back.
The other teams start leaving in order.
Ernie and Cindy are fifth to start this leg. Amani and Marcus, of Pine Mountain, Ga., fame, are leaving in sixth place.
Andy and Tommy reach their destination, where they learn this leg's Road Block. They must search a natural pool of water for a package while a Thai flautist plays nearby. Once they locate the package, and break the ceramic statuette inside, they'll get their next clue.
That leads them to a small Thai spirit house shrine, which they must disassemble. They'll take all the pieces to a local shrine, and learn the leg's second Road Block, which is to reassemble the Thai spirit house.
Andy and Tommy stay in first place as they find the spirit house and take it apart. They take all the parts to the temple, but have trouble putting it back together properly. They then run back to where all the spirit houses are, so they can take a closer look at a complete one.
The other teams, meanwhile, are finding the packages hidden in water and heading toward the spirit houses.
Andy and Tommy make a schematic of the spirit house and return to the temple, where they successfully put it together. They then get their next clue: Go to the Bangkok Noi canal and feed the fish before getting the next clue.
Justin and Jennifer figured out that they'll have to put the temple back together, so they take a picture of it before it's taken apart. They finish the reassembly and are in second place.
Liz and Marie, who still have a Speed Bump to complete, are in last place.
Jeremy and Sandy are in fourth place. Bill and Cathi are in seventh place.
Jeremy and Sandy just finished the reassembly, and are in third place.
Bill and Cathi find the statuette as Liz and Marie arrive at the elephants and begin the Speed Bump: Wash and clean up after the elephants.
Laurence and Zac also can't put the house back together on their first try. They must go back, take notes on what a complete one looks like and then try again. They're now in fourth place.
Ernie and Cindy are trying to reassemble the spirit house and not doing a great job.
Andy and Tommy reach the bus station, where they must catch a bus to Bangkok. However, their cabbie asked for a lot of money, and they're not sure they have enough to get to the capital. Several other teams then start arriving at the bus station, including Justin and Jennifer and Laurence and Zac.
There are two different buses, and the teams start wondering if one of the buses will arrive before another. One of the buses then starts rolling.
Amani and Marcus, in fifth place, finish the spirit house task and learn they must go to Bangkok.
Meanwhile, Laurence and Zac realize they've gotten on the wrong bus. They get off and start heading back to the bus station.
Ernie and Cindy, in sixth place, finally finished the spirit house task. Laurance and Zac are running back to the bus station.
Ernie and Zac, at the bus station, are having difficulty at the bus station because their cabbie won't accept only $100 cash. He says they owe him 4,500 baht and Ernie and Cindy argue the $100 USD is much more than that.
They're actually wrong and shell out another $50 USD before leaving.
Laurence and Zac, back at the bus station, buy another ticket on the proper bus. They leave hours after Andy and Tommy.
Liz and Marie are dealing with the same drama Laurence and Zac had. Their cabbie wants more cash and their bus to Bangkok is about to leave. As they argue, they watch their bus drive off.
Liz and Marie hand over all their money and, for some reason, their cabbie drives them to the bus that's already driven off.
Ernie and Cindy arrive first, with Andy and Tommy, Justin and Jennifer and Jeremy and Sandy on the second bus. Everyone runs to a cab and asks for Bangkok Noi.
Ernie and Cindy arrive first. They begin feeding the fish, and a guy hands them the clue leading them to this leg's Pit Stop: M.R. Kukrit Heritage Home.
Bill and Cathi are in second place. Amani and Marcus are in third place. They don't realize that they've gotten ahead of teams that were in front of them just a few hours ago.
Ernie and Cindy get stuck in traffic and get frustrated. They pay their cabbie and start walking to the Pit Stop. Bill and Cathi and Amani and Marcus are in cabs every close to each other.
It's a race to the Pit Stop, with Amani and Marcus coming in first place. They win a trip to Bali.
Bill and Cathi are second place, only moments behind Amani and Marcus.
Ernie and Cindy are third place.
Liz and Marie find a guy who tells them that it'll take five hours to walk to Bangkok Noi. Meanwhile, Andy and Tommy and Jeremy and Sandy just reached the fish feeding spot. They're in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
Laurence and Zac, way behind in seventh place, start feeding the fish.
Surprisingly, Liz and Marie find a cabbie willing to drive them to Bangkok Noi for nothing. Andy and Tommy, meanwhile, are standing around wasting time, waiting for someone woman who just wandered off to tell them how to get to the Pit Stop. They stand dumbfounded, asking aloud what they're doing.
A man then wanders out with a map and tells them where to go.
Justin and Jennifer arrive in fourth place.
Liz and Marie arrive at Bangkok Noi and feed the fish. They then again start asking random cabbies for free rides. Once again, someone agrees to give them a ride.
Andy and Tommy are fifth. Laurence and Zac, right behind them, are in sixth.
Jeremy and Sandy are seventh.
That means twins Liz and Marie are last place. They are eliminated from the Amazing Race.
This story was originally published October 23, 2011 at 7:54 PM with the headline "Amazing Race 2011: Who got eliminated in Season 19 Episode 5?."