Baku appears on Amazing race reality show

This week on CBS’ Amazing Race, popular reality show, the teams headed to Baku, Azerbaijan, also known as the land of fire.

Baku episode, according to the project of executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, is one of the best episodes in the history of the Amazing race project. Viewers were able to see how participants compete in the capital of Azerbaijan for the right to move to a new stage of the race, coping with the most incredible, extreme, and sometimes amusing tasks.

The information about Baku episode was kept a secret both by the team, and CineX Film Production company, which organized a trip to Azerbaijan.

In Baku the participants of the Amazing race show visited National Sea Park, the Ateshgah Temple, Naftalan health complex, the Icherisheher (Old Baku), Green Bazaar and other places.

The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams. Contestants strive to arrive first at "pit stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg. Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including planes, balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, taxicabs, personal car, jeepneys, trains, buses, boats, and by foot. Clues provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member.

These challenges are related in some manner to the country wherein they are located or its culture. Teams are progressively eliminated until three are left; at that point, the team that arrives first in the final leg is awarded the grand prize.

Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, the original series has aired in the United States since 2001 and has earned twelve Primetime Emmy Awards, including every award from 2003 to 2011, except in 2010, for "Outstanding Reality-Competition Program" (Top Chef won in 2010). Emmy-award-winning New Zealand television personality, Phil Keoghan, has been the host of the show since its inception. The show has branched out to include a number of international versions following a similar format.


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