OK so here is the Official Contest: Be the first to email to this site (in the Comments to this post) the city, country and place name of any of the three following photos, and we’ll send you — at our expense! — a nifty souvenir from the country in question. Could be a sandalwood elephant, could be an opium pipe. (Probably won’t be an opium pipe: customs and whatnot.) As an exciting bonus, if you email the exact GPS location where the photo was taken, we’ll make the prize extra special.
We’re off on our peregrinations north, into the mountains. We’ll survey the responses and notify the winner(s) in five days when we get back. Sabaai-dii!
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February 9, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Picture # 3
Singapore
Singapore
By the Singapore River
Bronze Sculpture called by Fernando Botero
Latitude: 103 degrees 51′ 04″
Longitude: 1 degree 17′ 09″
February 9, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Singapore
Singapore
By the Singapore River
Bronze Sculpture called Bird by Fernando Botero
Latitude: 103 degrees 51′ 04″
Longitude: 1 degree 17′ 09″
February 9, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Picture # 1
Bangkok
Thailand
Phra Mondob(the Scripture Hall) at Wat Pho Temple
Latitude: 100 degrees 29′ 30″
Longitude: 13 degrees 44′ 46″
February 9, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Wow, you’re quick. I only knew the first one, Wat Po in Bangkok. But I didn’t know which building it was!!
February 9, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Picture #3
6 Battery Road
Singapore 049909
Republic of Singapore
February 9, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Picture #2
KTM Berhad
Corporate Headquarters
Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin, 50621
Kuala Lumpur
February 9, 2007 at 8:02 pm
oops. just read in the other post that I’m not allowed to play….sorry!
February 9, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Hey, wait…I thought we were supposed to EMAIL our responses. Anyway…I beat you all to the punch with my emails yesterday 😉
February 9, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Argh. Guess I didn’t read carefully enough, again. Oh well. Argh.
February 9, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Ok, sore loser, here…”post” would have been a better word than “email” in your instructions, since email is something else entirely.
I still love you guys, though.
Oh, by the way, Harvey is dead. Suicide…I think he had PTSD. Hid the body behind a bush at my old place, but I did say a few words out of respect.
February 11, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I only know #3; Hartford Ct. Latitude: 41.76 N, Longitude: 72.69 W
February 13, 2007 at 4:19 am
Fletcher wins twice! Congrats. Pat also wins, because he guessed the middle pic and he wasn’t there with us when it was taken, so he had no advantage. I will contact the winners soon.
Josh — good point about “email” and “post.” But no consolation prize for you.
In an upcoming post we’ll have the second contest, including pictures just for the winners to guess (sort of a Round Two). These will be harder, because you guys are obviously web-heads with too much time on your hands! 🙂
M and L
February 13, 2007 at 12:55 pm
KOOL! Anyway my advantage is I have relatives in KL…and I’m pretty good with Google.