The Amazing Race 14

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

Starting in Los Alamitos, California, racers traveled through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Romania, Russia, India, Thailand, and China before returning to the United States and finishing in Maui.

In an interview, executive producer Bertram van Munster revealed that the teams took a 13-hour train ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway and got into a Siberian snowstorm with below-zero temperatures.

In addition, CBS revealed the season included the world's second tallest bungee jump, suffocating heat in India, and an Olympic-themed challenge that left the teams "gasping for air.

[7] Mike White had originally been chosen to participate on The Amazing Race 13 with director Jon Kasdan, but the latter dropped out before filming.

CBS posted short videos on its website after each episode aired in the Pacific time zone to show the eliminated teams interacting at the villa.

'"[20] Michael Russnow of The Huffington Post criticized this season's route as the show "didn’t travel in as diversified a fashion, and wherever the teams wound up they stayed in the immediate region a lot longer than in earlier years.

"[21] Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger wrote that his "interest in the season dropped rapidly after Mel and Mike were eliminated" and that he "lacked either an emotional investment in another team or an admiration for them as pure Racers.

Teams were brought to the season's starting line at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base in California by Seahawks .
The route of The Amazing Race 14.
While in Switzerland , teams traveled to the Verzasca Dam near Locarno and performed the second-highest bungee jump in the world.
While in Germany , teams visited the lake town of Schönau am Königsee deep in the Bavarian Alps .
Teams ended the leg in the shadow of Bran Castle in Transylvania , the fabled home of Dracula .
After arriving in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia , teams had to figure out that their next destination was the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Dam .
The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre in the city of Novosibirsk was the fifth Pit Stop.
One of the Detour choices in Jaipur had teams transporting hay alongside its city wall , including the Zorawar Singh Gate.
At the Phuket Zoo , teams had to participate in an elephant show.
Teams traveled along Bangkok 's series of canals using traditional Thai long-tail boats in this leg.
The Roadblock in Guilin introduced teams to the traditional Chinese method of cormorant fishing on the Li River .
In Beijing , the host city of the 2008 Summer Olympics , teams compete in a swimming Detour inspired by Michael Phelps .
The Beijing National Stadium , which had been the main venue of the Olympics , served as the Pit Stop on the penultimate leg of the Race.
While in Maui , teams prepared puaʻa kālua : a pig roasted in the traditional kālua method.