The Amazing Race Asia 3

Production

Development and filming

Casting

Release

Marketing

Broadcasting

Cast

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• A placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg.
• *An placement indicates that the team was marked for elimination; if the team did not place 1st in the next leg, they would receive a 30-minute penalty.
• *An placement indicates that the team had to relinquish all of their money and were not allotted money for the next leg.
• A indicates that the team won a Fast Forward.
• A indicates that the team chose to use the Yield, and a indicates the team who received it.
• A means the team chose to use a U-Turn, and a indicates the team who received it.

Race summary

Leg 1 (Thailand)

• Episode 1: “The Toughest Race Ever”
• Prize: for each team member, courtesy of Standard Chartered Bank
• Eliminated: Neena & Amit

• Bangkok, Thailand
• Bangkok
• Pathum Thani → Suphan Buri
• Suphan Buri → Chiang Mai
• Mae Raem
• Mae Hia

• Teams set off from King Rama I Monument in Bangkok and were instructed to travel to Khaosan Road. There, both team members had to consume one large bowl of Thai street food, consisting of assorted fried bugs, frogs and scorpions, to receive their next clue.
• The clue instructed teams to head to Caltex Service Station in Pathum Thani and completely clean a 22-seat passenger bus to the supervisor's satisfaction before receiving their next clue.
• The clue instructed teams had to sign-up for one of three newly washed buses to Suphan Buri, the first and second carried three teams while the last bus would carried four teams. After travelling to Wat Phai Rong Wua, teams had search the temple grounds for their next clue hidden amongst hundreds of Buddha statues. The first two buses, however, would depart 20 minutes after they arrived at the temple. After finding a clue, teams had to board the next available bus to go to Chiang Mai. Upon arrival at the Arcade Bus Station, teams found their next clue.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Race or Rice. In Race, teams had to proceed to the Chiang Mai X-Centre and drive an off-road buggy over an track to receive their next clue. In Rice, teams had to work together to pound rice into paste and make two rice balls before receiving their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams had to check in at the Pit Stop: Ratchaphruek Garden.

• Paula Taylor from the previous season was the greeter on this leg.

  Leg 2 (Thailand → Vietnam)

• Episode 2: “I Wanna Be a Man”
• Prize: Free Caltex fuel with techron for a year
• Eliminated: Isaac & William

• Chiang Mai
• Mae Kham Pong
• Chiang Mai
• Chiang Mai → Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Ho Chi Minh City → Cái Bè
• Cái Bè
• Cái Bè
• Cái Bè → Ho Chi Minh City
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Ho Chi Minh City

• At the start of the leg, teams had to travel to Flight of the Gibbon where they had to go through a jungle heights course consisting of zip-lines and a parallel drop before getting their next clue, instructing them to Sathit Buarawong Banana Plantation to search for their next clue.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to cross a plantation and retrieve their next clue from a hanging backpack without being hit by snipers brandishing paintball guns, who would fire paintballs at the team member. If the team member was shot, they had to return to the starting point and perform the task again.
• After the Roadblock, teams were instructed to fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Once there, teams made their way to Saigon Opera House to grab their next clue, directing them to Saigon Phố Cafe, where each team member had to play a Nokia N-Gage game, known as System Rush: Evolution, on a Nokia N82 handphone and complete three laps around a track within a time limit to receive their next clue, that would lead to direct them Bến Thành Market, where they find a specific flower stall to the lady that would hand them their next clue, instructed them to travel by bus to Cái Bè. Once there, they made their way to Cao Dai Temple to get their next clue.
• This leg's Detour was a choice between Sampan and Some Walk. In Sampan, teams would have had to load a sampan with fruit and then row it across the river to a trader, who would give teams their next clue. In Some Walk, teams had to gather twenty live chickens and then deliver then using a đòn gánh to a vendor in the land market to receive their next clue. Some teams attempted Sampan, before switched and completed Some Walk.
• After the Detour, teams made their way back to Ho Chi Minh City and travelled to Thánh Nữ Jeanne D'Arc Church, teams had to choose a Red Cross aid expert, each representing one of the nine available charity organisations, and use US$500 from Singha to purchase supplies as needed by the organisation. Once complete, team would find their next clue outside the Saigon Central Post Office, instructed them to the Pit Stop at Museum of Vietnamese History.

• All route markers in Vietnam were colored yellow and white rather than red and yellow, so as to avoid confusion with the flag of the former independent state of South Vietnam.