User:AmazingRaceClub

Welcome to my user page! I joined wikipedia on June 11, 2012. I will try to help to edit pages related to Euro 2012 and The Amazing Race. Happy to be on here. Remember: Love, don't hate. The Amazing Race is a reality game show in which teams of two race around the world against other teams, with the first-place team winning $1,000,000 (U.S.), $100,000 (Asia), A$250,000 (Australia), R$500,000 (Brazil), A World Tour (China Rush), ₪1,000,000 (Israel), 300,000,000₫ (Vietnam), US$250,000 (Latin America), 500,000 kr and a Subaru XV for each team member (Norway). There is a total of 8 international versions of the show: The Amazing Race Australia, The Amazing Race Asia, The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária, The Amazing Race: China Rush, HaMerotz LaMillion (המירוץ למיליון), The Amazing Race Norge, The Amazing Race Vietnam: Cuộc Đua Kỳ Thú 2012, The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel/The Amazing Race Latinoaméricawith The Amazing Race France and The Amazing Race Philippines coming soon.

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The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)

Countries Visited

Countries that The Amazing Race has visited are shown in color.

Most race routes in The Amazing Race circumnavigate the globe, starting from one United States city and ending in another. Two exceptions include The Amazing Race 7 where the route was a great circle, crossing through Argentina, South Africa, and India before returning westward; and The Amazing Race 8, the Family Edition of the show, which stayed entirely within North America.

North America
United States - Country of Origin	Canada	Panama	Costa Rica	Jamaica	Mexico

• Including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the unincorporated organized territory of Guam.

Anchorage, Alaska was the final destination city of The Amazing Race 12.

The final leg of season 15 took place at various resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.

Pigeon Key Historic District, at the end of the Old Seven Mile Bridge in Florida Keys, was the finish line of season 18.

In season 19, in Panama City, teams had to figure out the next location by examining traditional pollera dress of tamborito dancers.

South America
Argentina	Brazil	Chile	Bolivia	Ecuador	Paraguay
Peru	Uruguay

The Petrohué River in Chile's Los Lagos Region was the site of Detour in Leg 3 in season 11.

Teams race around in Salvador, Brazil in season 13.

Leg 3 in season 16 featured tasks relating to gauchos and other aspects of Argentine equestrianism.

Teams visited Rio de Janeiro, Brazil back in season 2 and in season 18.

Europe
Germany	Austria	France	Italy	Russia	Netherlands	Sweden
Switzerland	United Kingdom	Norway	Spain	Belgium	Croatia	Czech Republic
Denmark	Estonia	Finland	Greece	Hungary	Iceland	Ireland
Lithuania	Liechtenstein	Poland	Portugal	Romania	Turkey	Ukraine

• Including the territorial collectivity of Corsica.
• Including the autonomous region of Sicily.
• As of season 20, the race has only visited the constituent countries of England and Scotland.

Teams visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and paid tribute to the millions killed during the Holocaust while they were in Poland back in season 11.

At Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire, England teams participated in various medieval-themed tasks in season 17.

In Saint Petersburg, Russia, inseason 17 at the roadblock, teams played gorodki at the Peter and Paul Fortress.

In season 18, teams traveled to the Matterhorn where they participated in mountain rescue-themed Detour tasks.

Africa
South Africa	Tanzania	Morocco	Botswana	Burkina Faso	Egypt
Ethiopia	Ghana	Kenya	Madagascar	Malawi	Mauritius
Mozambique	Namibia	Senegal	Seychelles	Tunisia	Zambia

• Including the semi-autonomous area of Zanzibar.

In season 7, before heading to Botswana, teams fed a lion at the Rhino & Lion Game Reserve in Krugersdorp, South Africa.

At the roadblcok in season 12, in Burkina Faso, one team member had to milk a Dromedary camel and then drink the milk.

In season 16, in Seychelles,one of the Detour tasks required teams to use a banana to lure a 100-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise across a marked course.

In season 20, at Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater, teams participated in Detour tasks based on the everyday lives of the local Maasai people.

Asia
India	China	Japan	Thailand	Malaysia
Vietnam	Cambodia	Oman	Singapore	South Korea
Taiwan	United Arab Emirates	Azerbaijan	Bangladesh	Indonesia
Kazakhstan	Kuwait	Mongolia	Philippines	Sri Lanka

• Including the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

File:2. Abu Dhabi (1).jpg Burj Al Arab in Dubai was visited back in season 5, however Dubai was later visited in season 15.

Back in season 10, Meridian Gate in Forbidden City was the location of the race's first ever mid-leg elimination.

In season 13, for the roadblock in New Delhi, one team member had to paint an environmentally friendly natural gas-powered tuktuk green.

In season 16, the Fast Forward task took place in Singapore at the Singapore Flyer, the tallest Ferris wheel in the world.

Oceania
Australia	New Zealand

Teams visited the Sydney Harbour Bridge, where they climbed to its summit to receive their next clue in the second season.

In the second season, one of the detour choices was to bungee jump 450 feet off the Nevis Highwire Platform.

Ellis Beach near Cairns in Queenland was the Pit Stop for one of the leg's in season 4.

Back in season 5, one team member rode in a Zorb down a hill in New Zealand before receiving the next clue.

In season 18, teams visited Oceanworld Manly in Sydney, where one team member did the Shark Dive Extreme: a scuba dive in the aquarium's shark tank.

As of the twentieth season, The Amazing Race has visited 82 different countries.

The Amazing Race Australia

Countries Visited

Countries that The Amazing Race Australia has visited are shown in colour.

As of 2012, The Amazing Race Australia has visited 13 countries and 4 continents but not the Americas.

Europe
Netherlands	Czech Republic	Poland	Turkey

Africa
South Africa

Asia
China	india	Indonesia	Israel	Vietnam
Singapore	Sri Lanka	Philippines	United Arab Emirates

• Including the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

Oceania
Australia