The Amazing Race 12

Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world to win US$1,000,000.

This season visited four continents and ten countries and traveled over 30,000 miles (48,000 km) during eleven legs.

Starting in Los Angeles, racers traveled through Ireland, the Netherlands, Burkina Faso, Lithuania, Croatia, Italy, India, Japan, and Taiwan before returning to the United States and finishing in Anchorage.

[4] However, when Viva Laughlin was canceled in October, The Amazing Race 12 debuted early to take the time slot.

The shortened filming schedule was initially attributed, in part, to the removal of non-elimination legs, which would have been a first on The Amazing Race.

Executive producer Bertram van Munster felt that "it was not intentional" for casting to leave out young-male teams commonly found in past seasons.

[1] During The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, Christina Hsu revealed that she was engaged to Azaria Azene.

CBS posted short videos on its website after each episode aired in the Pacific Time Zone, which showed the eliminated teams interacting at the villa.

Teams gathered outside the Playboy Mansion to begin the twelfth season of The Amazing Race .
Vyxsin Fiala and Kynt Cothron
The route of The Amazing Race 12.
After arriving in Ireland , teams traveled to Teampall Bheanáin on Inishmore in the Aran Islands .
While in the Netherlands , teams went to the rural village of Ransdorp for the Roadblock.
The Roadblock in Burkina Faso required one team member to milk a camel.
For one task of this leg's Detour, teams had to learn a traditional local dance and perform it with Winiama masked dancers.
The Roadblock of this leg focused on the city of Vilnius, Lithuania .
After arriving in Dubrovnik , teams visited the historic Fort of St. Lawrence for the Roadblock.
Teams ended this leg at the Boboli Gardens in Florence .
After arriving in Osaka , teams visited Kishiwada Castle to find a clue.
While in Taipei , teams drank a cup of tea , which had a clue written underneath in Chinese .
After a final leg in Anchorage, Alaska , teams crossed the finish line at Girdwood Airport .