reposting this here:
From the
Jonathan Littman interview: (thanks to
Slowhatch)
Littman: *"We're going to a couple of places that I don't even know where they are on the map. I've had to go look them up."
CBS Press: *This season, teams will travel approximately 50,000 miles (or is that 30,000?), covering five new countries including
Ireland, Lithuania and Croatia. *This year's race includes stops in
Croatia, Burkina Faso and Alaska and features the first-ever Goth team. --
ocregister RTVW*
Ireland is one of five new countries The Amazing Race 12 filmed in, along with Croatia, Lithuania and two African countries with names that van Munster said most people can't pronounce.
*"It's very exciting to go to new locations because we have gone to places where people have never seen a television camera or have never seen television"
*The Amazing Race 12's course will span approximately 30,000 miles in 21 days, making it one of the shortest courses in the show's 12 seasons
ocregister*This year's race includes stops in
Croatia, Burkina Faso and Alaska and features the first-ever Goth team.
rockymountainnews*5 countries where The Amazing Race had never been will be featured in this season's trek, including
Ireland, Lithuania and Croatia. Other locales include
Burkina Faso, West Africa, and Taiwan. AOL*The show will crisscross the world, from
Holland to India to Croatia, and head to a few off-the-beaten-track towns that will send viewers grabbing for their globes.
*"There are probably four places that the average person is going to hear and say, 'They're going where?' And they're going to have to get out a map to know where it is. They are very remote," said Bertram Van Munster, the other half of the executive producing team.
"We hit most of the continents, except Antarctica."