The Amazing Race Australia 1

Hosted by Grant Bowler, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the Eastern Hemisphere to win the grand prize of A$250,000.

Starting in Melbourne, racers travelled through Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, South Africa, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Israel, Sri Lanka and Singapore before returning to Australia and finishing in Perth.

[13] The cast included married fitness entrepreneurs, farmers, friends of Egyptian descent, models, Big W workmates and reunited sisters.

[17] After this season, Mel Greig replaced Maude Garrett as a co-host of the Hot30 Countdown on the Today Radio Network, where she later gained international notoriety for her role in a controversial prank call to an English hospital that was treating Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge for morning sickness.

[19] Mo El-Leissy had a role on a Muslim sketch comedy show on SBS called Legally Brown.

The first series of The Amazing Race Australia started in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a Roadblock sending racers up and down one of the stadium's six light towers.
Mel Greig
Tyler Atkins and Nathan Joliffe
The route map of the first series of The Amazing Race Australia .
The islet of Gili Trawangan was the first Pit Stop in the inaugural series of The Amazing Race Australia .
This leg's Pit Stop was located at the citadel of the former Vietnamese capital in Huế .
In Hong Kong , teams visited the Jumbo Floating Restaurant , where they had to bite into fortune cookies to find their clue.
For the leg's Roadblock, racers had to bungee jump off of the Bloukrans Bridge outside of Port Elizabeth .
The final task in Cape Town had teams search the Atlantis Dunes for a clue.
Teams visited the Oud Hollands Gebakkraam food cart in Amsterdam , where each team member had to eat two appelbollen before receiving their next clue.
While in Prague , teams paid a visit to the Dancing House .
Teams ended this leg in Poland at Niedzica Castle .
After arriving in Israel , teams visited the Azrieli Center for a clue.
In the "Pilgrim's Trail" Detour in Jerusalem , teams had to carry an 80-kg cross along the Via Dolorosa , the path Jesus took to his crucifixion .
In the town of Ambalangoda , teams had to search a street festival for a man wearing a particular mask in order to receive their next clue.
Teams visited the Singapore Flyer before returning to Australia.