The Amazing Race 9 - Prizes

Prizes

Individual prizes were awarded to the first team to complete a leg unless otherwise noted.

• Leg 1 - $10,000 cash for each racer.
• Leg 2 - All expense paid trip to Tahiti sponsored by Travelocity.
• Leg 3 - All expense paid trip to Africa, including whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River, an elephant-back safari, and seeing Victoria Falls, sponsored by Travelocity, for the first team to bring a Travelocity gnome (collected during the Roadblock in the second half of this leg) to the pit stop. By coincidence, Eric & Jeremy, who were the first to reach the pit stop, were also the first ones to bring the gnome to the pit stop, and thus won the prize.
• Leg 4 - Digital imaging package from Duracell.
• Leg 5 - Cruise for two to Mexico sponsored by Travelocity.
• Leg 6 - Trip to The Da Vinci Code movie premiere in Hollywood, California (The prize was awarded to the first team to arrive at the Pit Stop bearing two parchments and demonstrating that, when combined, they revealed a picture of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and a coded message; the first team to arrive at the Pit Stop did show the message and were awarded the prize).
• Leg 7 - All expense paid trip to Rome sponsored by Travelocity.
• Leg 8 - All expense paid trip to Hong Kong sponsored by Travelocity.
• Leg 9 - Two one-year leases for Mercedes ML350s like the ones driven on the leg.
• Leg 10 - Cruise around Sydney Harbour, a tour of the Hunter Valley wine district and the Great Barrier Reef; as well, a luxury hotel room for the time that they would normally be at the Pit Stop (The prize on this leg was awarded to the team that had a picture of a "golden gnome" in an envelope they received with the Roadblock and Fast Forward clues and were told not to open until they reached the Pit Stop. Ray and Yolanda had the golden gnome and won.)
• Leg 11 - Two T-Mobile Sidekicks, each with three years of free service.
• Leg 12 - $1,000,000