Jungle Run - The Temple of The Jungle King

The Temple of The Jungle King

At the end of the show, the contestants go to the Temple of the Jungle king. The jungle guide explains the rules, and once the temple doors opens, the team must enter the temple without the jungle guide. Inside the temple is a series of rooms each containing a large monkey statue. Once the challenge in each chamber is completed, the door to the next room opens. In the early series the teams could only receive one prize but that was changed so that they'd get as many prizes as the number of idols they had collected. The more rooms the contestants get through, the better the idols they collect. When a team has only 20 seconds of time left in the temple, a warning sounds, and they must escape before the door to the temple closes. If any of the team members do not get out in time, those team members are locked in the temple until Sid and Elvis get them out after the show, and they receive no prizes even if they have completed tasks in other chambers.

There were several differences between the Temple of the Jungle King in the pilot and in the main series. In the pilot the puzzles were different, the temple was smaller, and it looked like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The temple changed throughout the various series. In the earlier series it was more colourful than in the later series. When the contestants collected bananas, they would put them into a basket, but when they began collecting statues instead, they put these into a stone altar. In later series, the teams would get a Jungle run monkey no matter how badly they had done in the temple, provided that they managed to escape. During the earlier series, the types of monkey idol were Wood, Stone, Metal, Silver, and the Jungle King's most precious possession, the Golden Monkey. In the pilot that was never shown on CITV, they were Wood, Stone, Metal, Sapphire, and Ruby. Later, the Wood monkey was phased out and the Metal monkey became Bronze. The Golden Monkey idol was also changed and became larger.