The Amazing Race 30

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 New York City, racers traveled through Iceland, Belgium, Morocco, France, the Czech Republic, Zimbabwe, Bahrain, Thailand, and Hong Kong before returning to the United States and finishing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As happened before in the twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh seasons, the show's official website announced that they would begin filming on October 1, 2017, at Washington Square Park in New York City, and invited fans to join them as they saw the new teams off.

[5] On October 8, photographs were posted to social media of teams playing pétanque at the Place des Lices in Saint-Tropez, France.

[9] Host Phil Keoghan said that the casting focus for this season was to pick the most competitive lineup of teams in Amazing Race history.

The cast included former NBA players Cedric Ceballos and Shawn Marion, IndyCar racers Conor Daly and Alexander Rossi, freestyle skiers Kristi Leskinen and Jen Hudak, Well-Strung members Trevor Wadleigh and Chris Marchant, and competitive eaters Joey Chestnut and Tim Janus.

The 30th season of The Amazing Race started filming on October 1, 2017, at Washington Square Park in New York City .
The route of The Amazing Race 30.
Teams ended the first leg in Iceland at Iðnaðarmannahúsið, on the shore of Lake Tjörnin in Downtown Reykjavík .
Grote Markt in Antwerp , in the shadow of Brabo Fountain and City Hall , hosted the very first Head-to-Head and the second Pit Stop.
The tasks in Tangier were focused in the old Medina quarter and its narrow alleyways.
The Roadblock in Saint-Tropez had racers sailing Optimist dinghies to get their clue.
One half of the Detour in Provence had teams visiting the Arles Amphitheatre .
Teams ended this leg in Prague on the hilltop of Letenské Park , overlooking the Vltava River and Prague's Old Town .
In rural Zimbabwe , teams traveled to the Imire Rhino & Wildlife Conservancy and ran most of this leg with a swapped partner for the first time.
Teams ended the eighth leg in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare at the First Street Pedestrian Mall.
After arriving in Muharraq , teams participated in traditional Bahraini boat-making by weighing the right amount of wood to make a dhow .
The iconic Wat Chedi Luang , a Buddhist temple in downtown Chiang Mai , served as the Pit Stop for this leg.
After arriving in Hong Kong , teams visited Lions Pavilion at the top of Victoria Peak , overlooking the skyline of the Central Business District , to get their clue.
The flight deck of the USS Hornet in Alameda, California served as the finish line of The Amazing Race 30 .