amazing race asia season 3: henry & bernie is eliminated

after 8 legs of intense racing, the malaysian brother and sister team of henry and bernie was eliminated from the race of the amazing race asia season 3. the elimination leg came after 2 pre-determined non-elimination legs where ida & tania, also of malaysia, escaped being eliminated both times.

here is the summary of tasks in this eighth leg of the race:

order of departure: geoff & tisha (phi), sam & vince (hk), ad & fuzzie (sing), henry & bernie (mal) and ida & tania (mal); about a 4 hour difference between the first and last team

> at pit stop: teams were instructed to go to the ruins of st. paul, a unesco world heritage site to retrieve next clue

> at st paul's ruins: teams were instructed to proceed to the entrance of macau tower, where they did the climbing task roadblock in the previous leg

> at macau tower: roadblock: one of the team members will bungee jump 233 meters off macau tower, the highest bungee jump in the whole world according to the guiness book of world records. team members who did the roadblock: (in order) tisha, sam, ad, bernie and tania

> after the roadblock: teams need to catch a ferry to go back to hongkong and proceed to maskargo warehouse to search for a parcel addressed to them, open it and read the letters inside before they receive their next clue. for the first team that finished the roadblock, caltex provided a helicopter ride to hongkong which gives them a headstart, which was won by geoff & tisha

> at maskargo warehouse: after reading letters from home (where almost everyone cried), teams were instructed to proceed to a temple in cochin, india for their next clue. flight taken by teams: first flight: geoff & tisha (hk - singapore - cochin); second flight: ad & fuzzie and ida & tania (hk - bombay - cochin); third flight: henry & bernie and sam & vince (hk - singapore - bombay - cochin) - note that these 2 teams missed their connecting flight to cochin so they have to go to the domestic airport to catch a new flight

> at the temple: teams need to be blessed in the temple before receiving their next clue. hours of operation: 6am to 10pm - geoff & tisha arrived at the temple at 10:30pm, so they stayed in the hotel for the night. ida & tania and ad & fuzie arrived at the temple at 4:30am, and stayed there until opening; getting in front of geoff & tisha

> after getting blessed: teams will proceed to kumbalam and wash an elephant

> at kumbalam: teams encountered a detour: in fish, teams need to deliver 6 large swordfishes to a restaurant. in fill, teams need to finish an intricate column design on the floor using colored rice. how the teams choose tasks: fish was done by geoff & tisha and sam & vince, fill was done by ida & tania, ad & fuzzie and henry & bernie; the faster task proved to be fish

> after the detour: teams will proceed to the next pitstop, the bolgatty palace at cochin

order of arrival at pitstop:

1st: geoff & tisha (philippines)

2nd: ad & fuzzie (singapore)

3rd: ida & tania (malaysia)

4th: sam & vince (hongkong)

5th: henry & bernie (malaysia) - eliminated

for winning the race, geoff & tisha won a trip to hongkong and USD1,000. actually, ida & tania arrived 2nd at the pitstop but they have a 30 minute penalty since they did not arrive first at the pitstop, the consequence of the non-elimination leg. ad & fuzzie caught up with them and checked in 2nd.