page_title: The Amazing Race 15
section_title: Leg 3 (Vietnam)
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 15 / Race summary / Leg 3 (Vietnam)
caption_attribution_description: English: Reunification Palace, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. July 2009.
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 15 is the fifteenth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. This season featured 12 teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world, and was the last season to date to feature 12 teams of two, as subsequent seasons have featured 11 teams of two as normal.
  The fifteenth cycle started on Sunday, September 27, 2009, with a two-hour premiere. It aired on CBS in the United States, and CTV Television Network in Canada, on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with the season finale on December 6, 2009. The show was hosted by Phil Keoghan. In Asia, it was aired on AXN.
  Dating couple Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney were the winners of this Race.
  The complete season was released on DVD on May 21, 2014.
context_section_description: Airdate: October 4, 2009
   Cái Bè to Mỹ Tho (Mỹ Tho Boat Pier)
  Ho Chi Minh City (Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre)
  Ho Chi Minh City (Ho Chi Minh City Post Office)
   Ho Chi Minh City (Tao Đàn Park (in Vietnamese) or Hotel A Dong) 
  Ho Chi Minh City (Điện Cơ 008) 
  Ho Chi Minh City (Reunification Palace) 
  The first Detour of the Race was a choice between Child's Play or Word Play. In Child's Play, teams had to find a kiosk named Nhiep Anh Công viên Tao Đàn Kiosque Giao Anh in Tao Đàn Park and deliver a concrete animal statue to a children's playground, along with five different colored balloons they collected along their route, in order to receive their next clue. In Word Play, teams had to go up to Hotel A Dong's observation deck and search the traffic circle of Ngã sáu Cộng Hoà (Six-way Intersection of the Republic) in front of the hotel for six Vietnamese letters hidden atop vehicles passing through the circle. Once a security guard approved their letters, teams had to get assistance from the locals to unscramble the letters to spell the Vietnamese word Độc Lập, which means "independence", to receive their next clue.
  In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to disassemble two VCRs and organize the parts into separate piles in order to receive their next clue.
  Additional task
  At the start of the leg, teams had to travel to Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre in Ho Chi Minh City. There, teams had to grab a Race-colored ribbon from the mouth of a dragon puppet moving about in the water. Inside the ribbon was a small metal capsule with a postage stamp concealed inside, leaving teams to figure out that the stamp depicted the Saigon Central Post Office (referred to as the "Ho Chi Minh City Post Office" in the show), where teams would find their next clue.
  Additional note
  During the Pit Stop, the Bassac III traveled from Cái Bè to Mỹ Tho, where teams would begin this leg of the Race.
caption: Teams ended the second Vietnam leg in Ho Chi Minh City at Reunification Palace, which was once the seat of power in former South Vietnam.
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