The teams travel 600 miles from their Pit Stop at the Miraflores Locks in Panama to San Jose, Costa Rica on three charter buses leaving in half-hour increments. Once in San Jose, the teams wait for the Volcano State Park to open and then receive a clue telling them that something's brewing at the Doka Estate Coffee Plantation, 17 miles away. What's brewing turns out to be a Roadblock in which one family member must sift through 800 pounds of coffee beans for a single red one --- but one team has to wait after they are Yielded by another. After completing the task, the teams travel 90 miles to the town of Jaco and find a man named Javier at a surf shop called Roca Loca. Their new clue directs them to do a Detour with a choice of either Relic (travel to Rainmaker Adventure Rainforest, cross rickety bridges and search for four Mayan relics) or Ripe (gather fifteen bushels of bananas and then use pulleys to get them to a distribution center.) One team gets stuck in the mud and has to scramble to avoid elimination.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 8 Episode 6 of The Amazing Race resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

The Amazing Race Season 8 Episodes...

• s08e01 - Go Mommy, Go! We Can Beat Them
• s08e02 - How Do We Know We Aren't Going to Get Shot?
• s08e03 - I Don't Kiss, I Make Out!
• s08e04 - Think Like an Office Chair
• s08e05 - We're Getting Out of the Country, Girls
• s08e06 - I'm Sick of Doing Stuff I Can't Do
• s08e07 - You Look Ridiculous
• s08e08 - How's That Face Feel?
• s08e09 - Don't Talk to Me Like I Was an Animal or Something
• s08e10 - The Family Christmas Card
• s08e11 - 25 Days, 50 Cities, and More than 600 Consecutive Hours as a Family...

The Amazing Race Show Summary

The Amazing Race is an adventure reality show hosted by Phil Keoghan that pits 10, 11, or 12 teams of 2 or 4 people against each other in a race around the world for approximately 40 days. In a leg, they go to destinations where they will complete a roadblock, a task where 1 person completes (Season 1-7) or 2 people (Season 8), a detour, where you have to decide between two tasks that are usually opposite of each other, and a miscellaneous task.

After they complete all these tasks, they will be directed to go to a Pit stop where they will have a 24 hour rest period where they will be able to eat, drink, sleep, and mingle with other teams. The last team to check into the Pit Stop usually is eliminated, but sometimes there is a non-elimination leg in which no one is eliminated. After all teams are eliminated except for 3, these three race to the finish line where the winning team wins 1 million dollars.