Guatemala
Guatemala
A brutal Mayan-jungle season with punishing conditions and a pair of returning players raising the stakes.
Sole Survivor
Danni Boatwright
Won the jury 6-1
- Year
- 2005
- Location
- Guatemala
- Format
- Two returning players
- Days
- 39 days
- Castaways
- 18
- Grand prize
- $1,000,000
- Jury vote
- 6-1
Also read at the Final Tribal Council
How Danni Boatwright won
Danni won a must-win immunity at the final four to blow up the dominant alliance, then turned her late-game social bonds into the jury's votes.
In context
Era
The Old School Era
2000–2010
Timeline
11th of 50
Aired 2005
Filming
Guatemala
1st of 1 season filmed here
Starting tribes
The 2 tribes marooned when the game began — and where the names come from.
Named after Nakúm, a Maya city in the same national park as Yaxhá.
Named after Yaxhá, a Maya archaeological site in the Yaxhá-Nakúm-Naranjo National Park where the season filmed.
At the merge · they became Xhakum — Merge tribe — a portmanteau of the two starting tribes, Yaxhá and Nakúm (both named for Maya cities in the park).
Returning players
Veterans who came back for another shot at the title.
The twists in play
The whole arsenalIdol moments
The First Idol Ever Played
Bobby Jon Drinkard out insteadGary Hogeboom
Facing the vote, Gary found Survivor's very first Hidden Immunity Idol — tracking it down off a bogus clue — and flashed it before the vote, the only way it worked back then. He was safe; Bobby Jon went home.
In the record book
1st
the idol is born
Season 11, 2005: the first Hidden Immunity Idol enters the game and quietly changes Survivor strategy forever.
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Common questions
- Who won Survivor Guatemala?
- Danni Boatwright won Survivor: Guatemala (Season 11, 2005), taking the jury vote 6-1.
- Where was Survivor Season 11 filmed?
- Survivor: Guatemala was filmed in Guatemala.
- When did Survivor Season 11 air?
- Survivor: Guatemala aired in 2005 and ran 39 days.
- Who were the finalists in Survivor Guatemala?
- Danni Boatwright won at the Final Tribal Council alongside Stephenie LaGrossa.
Around the fire
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“Cirie never needed an idol. She WAS the idol — read every vote a round early and bent the whole jungle to her will without a single immunity win. That's the cei…”
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