The teams take off from their Pit Stop at Lake Bennett in the Australian outback and receive a clue instructing them to fly nearly 7,000 miles to Bangkok, Thailand. After a scramble for airplane flights and bus rides, three teams arrive in time for the opening of the Three Spires Pagoda, but one is late after a critical mistake. One team catapults ahead by taking a challenging Fast Forward requiring them to eat stir-fried crickets and grasshoppers. Another team quickly opts out of the Fast Forward and joins the remaining teams for the Roadblock, which requires one member of each team to prepare a traditional feast for monkeys. This proves difficult, as the monkeys are all around and make difficulties in the efforts to craft the feast. After finally completing the task, the teams receive a clue instructing them to take a taxi 90 miles and then travel by ferry to Koh Kret Island. There, at the Buddha Gardens, they choose between a Detour --- Move It or Altar It. The Move It task involves the transporation of 72 clay pots, while the Altar It task requires the teams to make their way on foot to a Buddhist temple and then create a shrine to Buddha. The Move It task frustrates one team and ultimately they are eliminated from the race, leaving the final three.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 9 Episode 11 of The Amazing Race resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

The Amazing Race Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Here We Go, Baby, Off to Win a Million Bucks!
• s09e02 - I'm Filthy and I Love It!
• s09e03 - I Am in Russia Playing with the Dolls
• s09e04 - It's Not Over Until the Phil Sings
• s09e05 - Good Thing I Took That Human Anatomy Class in High School
• s09e06 - Sleep Deprivation is Really Starting to Irritate Me
• s09e07 - Herculean Effort for Some Herculean Dudes
• s09e08 - Here Comes the Bedouin!
• s09e09 - Do You Know How Much Running I Did Today, Phil?
• s09e10 - Man, They Should Have Used Their Fake Names
• s09e11 - I Think This Monkey Likes Me!
• s09e12 - 5 Continents...10 Countries...And More than 59 Thousand Miles!

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.