The show, which returns after a three-year hiatus, will see five new pairs<\/a> attempt to travel from one end of Canada to the other without a phone, access to the internet or credit cards.<\/p>\n Armed with just the cash equivalent of the airfare to fly the route, the contestants will be travelling over 16,000 kilometres whilst dealing with budget constraints and bears<\/a> on their epic journey<\/a> \u2013 but which route will they be taking and where are the checkpoints?<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the Race Across the World season 3 route.<\/p> The 2023 season of Race Across the World sees five teams travel through Canada, starting off in Vancouver on the Pacific coast and hopefully ending in St John\u2019s on the island of Newfoundland \u2013 the most easterly city in North America.<\/p>\n The pairs that manage to complete the full journey will be travelling 16,000 kilometres across the breadth of Canada with a budget of just \u00a32,498.13.<\/p>\n They\u2019ll be hitting seven checkpoints along the way, however they won\u2019t know the location of the next checkpoint until they reach the one before it.<\/p>\n In episode 1, we\u2019ll see the five teams set off in Vancouver, with the starting point being Stanley Park, the city\u2019s first and largest urban park which Tricia and Cathie<\/a> struggle to get out of.<\/p>\n All five teams must make it to the first checkpoint of Tlell in the Haida Gwaii archipelago with a deadline of just a few days.<\/p>\n Episode 2 will see the cast start off at the first checkpoint \u2013 the indigenous island of Haida Gwaii \u2013 before heading into the heart of Yukon to reach the second checkpoint of Dawson city.<\/p>\n The journey from checkpoint one to checkpoint two is over 2,000 kilometres north up one of the most isolated highways in the world to reach Dawson, a former boom town established during the Klondike gold rush of 1898.<\/p>\n Race Across the World season 3 will start on\u00a0<\/strong>BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Wednesday 22nd March at 9pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Previous seasons are available to stream now on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Check out more of our\u00a0Entertainment<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.<\/strong><\/p>\n Try Radio Times magazine today and get 12 issues for only \u00a31 with delivery to your home \u2013 <\/strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a>. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to <\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Five teams will be trekking 16,000 kilometres across Canada for season 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31373,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/03\/race-across-the-world-2023-route-all-the-season-3-filming-locations-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Five teams will be trekking 16,000 kilometres across Canada for season 3.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/31372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Race Across the World 2023 route\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Episode 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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