Eugenie & Isabel took a ferry to the small island of Sado within the Sea of Japan to go to the Myosenji Buddhist temple. Three groups took a practice to the close by port of Tomakomai. Two teams discovered themselves neck and neck from Malacca City all of the strategy to the Pekanbaru. Alfie & Owen opted to walk in a bid to conserve funds and located themselves ending four hours behind Eugenie & Isabel. After bumping into one another at Pasar Senen railway station, Alfie & Owen decided to put some distance between themselves and the ladies by catching an overnight prepare to Surabaya as an alternative. Alfie & Owen were the first to achieve the checkpoint at Padi Ecolodge, with the opposite teams arriving a day later due to the lack of an evening ferry. On day 41, the three remaining teams departed the checkpoint. When the other three groups lastly made it to Busan, Betty & James caught the last bus to Seoul but Brydie & Sharon opted to spend a night in the town earlier than making their option to Daejeon the next day to work accumulating chestnuts. The 5 pairs of rivals are Brydie and Sharon, Alfie and Owen, Stephen and Viv, Eugenie and Isabel, and Betty and James.

Curio Assortment is a comfortable brand, which means its resorts are supported by Hilton, but retain their very own particular person branding. Hilton selects impartial accommodations and resorts to be a part of the Curio Collection. By January 2017, Curio Assortment comprised more than 30 accommodations and resorts in seven countries. Curio Collection properties use Hilton’s reservation system and are part of Hilton Honors, Hilton’s guest-loyalty program. As of December 31, 2019, it has 91 properties with 16,638 rooms in 27 international locations and territories, together with 20 that are managed with 4,322 rooms and 71 which are franchised with 12,316 rooms. Three teams aimed for Ho Chi Minh City whilst the other two opted for the Lệ Thanh – Ou Ya Dav border crossing near Pleiku within the central highlands. Stephen & Viv chose the slower two-hour ferry crossing with a purpose to preserve funds as opposed to the 45-minute hop in a speedboat which was twice the value. In Bangkok Stephen & Viv decided to head for Khanom on the east coast by train to see some rare Pink dolphins in the Gulf of Thailand. There they visited the nearby Ban Khlong Water lily park, but family tensions stopped them totally having fun with the attraction, earlier than they travelled onward to Chiang Mai where they crossed paths with Stephen & Viv at the primary bus terminal, the place both groups secured completely different songthaews to take them to Mae Sariang.

In Chau Doc, they learnt of a ferry that traversed up the Mekong River to Phnom Penh however wanted to take a taxi to catch it. In Jakarta the groups have been instructed to take a bus from Gelora Bung Karno station to Karet Sudirman after which onto the checkpoint by foot at the Orient Hotel. The race had seven checkpoints with enforced relaxation intervals, with contestants only finding out the subsequent destination on departure from a checkpoint. Betty & James were the only group to cross onto the island of Shikoku (by way of the good Naruto Bridge), the place they helped trim some Japanese Acers to be used as garnish on Japanese meals. The groups had been first given directions to proceed to Wat Phnom after which by Tuk Tuk across the Japanese Bridge to a park containing the Neang Prachha Barami (clever woman) statue. Being the primary day of Pchum Ben, onward transport choices have been limited and the 2 teams parted ways. Brydie & Sharon had gone on to Okayama to work aboard a fishing boat on the Seto Inland Sea but were additionally stranded for a day due to the lack of trains.