My Personal Amazing Race Challenge - Thailand

My favorite TV show is Amazing Race on CBS.  In the following posts, I'll be sharing my own personal "Amazing Race" moments where I visited the same location as was shown on the Amazing Race TV show.

I'll start with Season 1, Leg 9 - India to Thailand.  In this episode, as according to Wikipedia, "For the leg's Fast Forward, teams had to go to the Temple of the Reclining Buddha. Teams were then required to play a traditional Buddhist Game that utilized the 108 urns alongside the giant reclining Buddha. They had to choose a bowl of coins and attempt to drop exactly one coin in every urn. If the bowl they choose did not contain exactly 108 coins, they had to choose another bowl to play the game again. The first team to complete this task would win the Fast Forward. "

We visited Bangkok, Thailand in November 2007 (around US Thanksgiving time frame).   One of our stops was Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha).  For a small fee, they have bowls of coins for you to "play the Buddhist coin game."

My husband, Paul, playing the coin game.

I remember being so excited when I got to the last few urns and realized that I had exactly the same number of coins!  I won the challenge!



















I also found this YouTube Video of someone completing the same challenge.

Reclining Buddha