The Amazing Race Asia 4

Hosted by Allan Wu, it featured ten teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around Asia and the Pacific Rim to win US$100,000.

Starting in Kuala Lumpur, teams travelled through Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and South Korea before finishing in Singapore.

Filipino friends Richard Hardin and Richard Herrera were the winners of this season, while Singaporean rebel pals Claire Goh and Michelle Ng finished in second place and Indonesian father and daughter Hussein and Natasha Sutadisastra finished in third place.

[10] Season 4's cast included the show's first father-daughter team, as well as martial arts experts, tattooists, social workers, and musicians.

Ho Gaya Na.... Manas finished runner-up as a contestant on the Indian reality-dating show Rakhi Ka Swayamwar,[12] similar in format to The Bachelorette of the American series.

[11] Jess & Lani, as well as Richard Herrera, have appeared in numerous media and print advertisements and commercials in the Philippines.

[13] Claire is a prominent bar musician who plays at numerous gigs around Singapore, while Michelle was a reality TV contestant on the Singaporean series S Factor.

[15] This season featured five non-Asians, Ivan, who is from Hungary and raced with his Malaysian wife Hilda,[11] Jacinta "Jess" James & Lani Pillinger are from Australia (though Lani is of Filipino ethnicity) and Richard (Hardin) & Richard (Herrera) are from the United States who are first generation Filipino Americans but raised in Columbus, Ohio.

The Starting Line was at Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia .
Nadine Zamira
Alan Luk
Richard Herrera
Complete route map. Note: the green dot represents both the starting point and transfer point in the third leg.
The first Roadblock of the 4th season of The Amazing Race Asia took place at Batu Caves .
Teams ended this Sabah leg at the floating village of Tanjung Aru .
Once in Colombo , teams visited the sitting Buddha inside the Gangaramaya Temple to receive blessings.
The second leg in Sri Lanka had teams visiting the seaside city of Galle , including its own historic lighthouse; the country's oldest light station.
While in the Philippine province of Albay , teams visited the Cagsawa Ruins , in the shadow of Mayon Volcano near Legazpi .
Teams ended this leg around the South Island of New Zealand at the snowy Coronet Peak , the country's first commercial skifield , near Queenstown .
Teams finished the leg in Sydney at Hyde Park 's Archibald Fountain , overlooking the St Mary's Cathedral , where they discovered that they would continue racing in Australia .
The leg in Queensland ended at Kangaroo Point , overlooking the skyline of Downtown Brisbane .
While in Indonesia 's Gili Islands , teams had to ride on cidomo s as their mode of transportation during the leg.
Marina Bay Sands in Downtown Singapore was the site of the final Roadblock and Finish Line.