The Amazing Race 16

Production

Development and filming

Casting

Contestants

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• An placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg, and had to perform a Speed Bump task in the following leg.
• A indicates that the team won the Fast Forward.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn and a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.
• A indicates that the teams encountered an Intersection.

Race summary

Leg 1 (United States → Chile)

• Episode 1: "Nanna Is Kickin' Your Butt"
• Prize: A trip for two to Vancouver, British Columbia
• Eliminated: Dana & Adrian

• Los Angeles, California
• Los Angeles
• Los Angeles → Santiago, Chile
• Santiago → Valparaíso
• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso

• Teams set off from Vista Hermosa Natural Park in Los Angeles, California, and had to travel by public transportation to Los Angeles International Airport, where they booked one of two American Airlines flights to Santiago, Chile. The first three teams received tickets on a flight that would have departed one hour ahead of the second flight, but due to a mechanical failure on the first flight, those three teams were re-booked on the second flight with the other eight teams. After arriving in Santiago, teams had to travel by bus to Valparaíso.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to cross a tightrope the length of a football field suspended above the ground to the end of the valley, where they found their next clue.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to take a funicular down the mountain to find their next clue. Teams then had to travel to Paseo Templeman, pick up painting supplies, and find a group of house painters next to a house matching the color of their paint. Once at the house, they had to finish painting a portion of the house in order to receive their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop: Palacio Baburizza.

• Once in Valparaíso, teams had to travel to Wulff Castle in Viña del Mar and find their next clue, which sent them to Ascensor Villaseca. This task was unaired.
• Dana & Adrian were unable to complete the Roadblock. After all the other teams checked in at the Pit Stop, Phil came out to the Roadblock to inform them of their elimination.

  Leg 2 (Chile)

• Episode 2: "When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head"
• Prize: A pair of sailboats
• Eliminated: Jody & Shannon

• Valparaíso
• Valparaíso → Santiago
• Santiago → Puerto Varas
• Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park → Todos los Santos Lake
• Puerto Varas
• Puerto Varas

• At the start of this leg, teams had to travel by bus back to Santiago before boarding another bus to Puerto Varas. Once there, teams had to drive themselves to the Hotel Petrohué and then take a boat to Isla Margarita on Todos los Santos Lake in order to find their next clue.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Llama Adoration or Condor Consternation. In Llama Adoration, teams traveled by boat to a farm where they had to properly dress a llama in order to receive their next clue. In Condor Consternation, teams traveled by boat to a beach where they used hang glider-like condor costumes to "fly" to their next clue in the water.
• After the Detour, teams had to drive to the Onces y Cabañas Bellavista in Puerto Varas, where they found their next clue.
• In this leg's Roadblock, teams had to collect the ingredients to make Kuchen – including a plate of butter, a bowl of sugar, a bag of flour, a baker's dozen of eggs from a hen house, and a cup of milk from a cow – and then deliver them to the baker in order to receive a serving of Kuchen and their next clue directing them to the Pit Stop: the Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Puerto Varas.