The Amazing Race 23

Production

Development and filming

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.
• An italicized and underlined placement indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop, but there was no rest period at the Pit Stop and all teams were instructed to continue racing. There was no required Speed Bump task in the next leg.
• A indicates that the team used an Express Pass on that leg to bypass one of their tasks.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn and a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.

Race summary

Leg 1 (United States → Chile)

• Episode 1: "We're Not in Oklahoma No More"
• Prize: Two Express Passes
• Eliminated: Hoskote & Naina

• Santa Clarita, California
• Los Angeles → Iquique, Chile
• Alto Hospicio
• Iquique
• Iquique

• At the Melody Ranch Motion Picture Studio, teams had to choose a vehicle and use the in-vehicle communication system to contact a man named Javier, who revealed their first destination: Iquique, Chile. Teams then drove to Los Angeles International Airport, where they booked one of two flights to Iquique, the first of which carried seven teams and arrived 2:30 hours before the second flight, which carried the remaining four teams. Once there, teams had travel to the Zona de Parapentes in Alto Hospicio and find Javier, who had their next clue.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to direct their taxi to follow their partner, who paraglided from Alto Hospicio down to either Playa Brava or Huayquique Beach. Once team members reunited on the beach, they received their next clue.
• After the first Roadblock, teams had to travel to Muelle Prat and find their next clue.
• In this leg's second Roadblock, the team member who paraglided in the previous Roadblock had to collect five fish from one of three boats, reaching them by rowboat, and then deliver them to a fishmonger in order to receive a postcard, which depicted their first Pit Stop. The three fishing boats each had a limited number of fish, so if a boat ran out of fish, racers had to find one of the other boats in order to get their remaining fish.
• After the second Roadblock, teams had to travel on foot to the Pit Stop: the Teatro Municipal de Iquique.

  Leg 2 (Chile)

• Episode 2: "Zip It, Bingo"
• Prize: A trip for two to the Turks and Caicos Islands
• Eliminated: Rowan & Shane

• Iquique
• Iquique
• Tarapacá Region
• Tarapacá Region
• Iquique → Santiago
• Santiago
• Santiago
• San José de Maipo

• At the start of this leg, teams had to find the Museo Corbeta Esmeralda, where they had to repeat to the deck officer a quote uttered by Arturo Prat at the Battle of Iquique – "¡Al abordaje, muchachos!" – "Charge the ship, men!" – in order to receive their next clue. Teams then had to travel to the Irlanda 3 Road Sign in the Atacama Desert, where they found their next clue.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Brining or Mining. Both options required teams to bike to the salt mine in the Tarapacá salt flats. In Brining, teams had to carry bags of salt and dump them into a pool in order to reach neutral buoyancy. Once they were able to float on the surface, they could receive their next clue. In Mining, the teams had to use pickaxes and sledgehammers to open halite boulders until they found one that contained their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams were instructed to travel by bus to Santiago. Once there, they had to travel to the Plaza de Armas, where they found their next clue.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to work as a Chilean shoeshiner. After shining a customer's shoes, the racer had to properly put all of their supplies into their cart and transport it back to the storage depot in order to receive their next clue, which directed them to the Pit Stop: Cascada de las Animas in San José de Maipo.

• Promotional photos showed some teams riding a zipline above the Maipo River at Cascada de las Animas before checking in at the Pit Stop. Once it was nighttime, teams could no longer ride the zipline and simply checked in at the Pit Stop, which was also moved from the suspension bridge.