Bangkok Week 207 June 14, 2012 Amazing race: Bangkok Edition! View fullsize The members of BCG Bangkok's social committee put on an epic activity for us last Friday: Amazing Race Bangkok Edition. Here, we're getting our pre-race briefing. View fullsize Go Red(dish orange) team! (I think the other teams were stacked. Somehow, we had 3 foreigners.) View fullsize We get our pack of clues on the elevator down to the lobby. View fullsize Our first task was to take a photo with 2 of our team members and a monitor lizard. View fullsize We also had to sing happy birthday with 2 strangers. Here, the blue team has at it. View fullsize Confused about where to go next. View fullsize We also had to cook street food and serve it to 4 customers. View fullsize We realized later that skewered meat didn't count, though, since it wasn't a "dish". So we tried again with fried eggs. View fullsize Two shocked tourists weren't sure why they were getting free lunch boxes. View fullsize Trying to figure out what our next task was. The guy in the middle is a Vietnamese intern who's never been to Bangkok before. View fullsize All 5 of us jumped in a tuk tuk and headed off to Paragon. View fullsize The other 2. View fullsize When we hit traffic, we jumped out... View fullsize ... and climbed up to the skytrain instead. View fullsize A refreshing 2-minute respite in the AC'd train. View fullsize We had to take a picture at a temple, with something "local to the area." This motorcycle driver was local to the area! View fullsize Then we used him to get to our next destination. View fullsize Nothing like an added challenge from a little Bangkok traffic. View fullsize Safety first! View fullsize This team (comprised of 4 Bangkok locals, I should add) was the first to finish -- but they scored fewer points than other teams. View fullsize The blue team -- whom we met in the park while singing -- ultimately won the challenge. View fullsize In the end, we finished 2nd out of 5 teams. Not too bad, considering the foreign nature of our team. View fullsize This team -- which included all of our office's leadership team -- finished 4th of 5. View fullsize Relaxing, with 2 of the organizers, at the dinner venue. View fullsize The transformation of Digital Gateway into a giant bottle of coke is complete! It's only taken them 3.5 years to figure out! View fullsize Stuck at Balikpapan airport for 6 hours. What better to do than enjoy rich chocolate desserts and french fries.
