Commute by Water
Explore · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Use a public river or canal boat instead of a taxi for one journey.
The catch: No private longtail charter.
Bonus +50: Take a canal boat as well as a river boat.
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Free travel game
Turn Bangkok into an adventure.
Tell us where you are. Pick your kind of adventure. We'll give you something unexpected to do. No account. No app. Just go.
Start a side questPlay anywhere · Complete quests · Earn points · Screenshot your wins · Challenge your friends
Step 1
Tell us what city you're exploring.
Step 2
Choose a category or let us surprise you.
Step 3
Finish the challenge, earn points and screenshot your achievement.
Bangkok is a water city that grew a skyline. The pack puts you on public boats, plastic stools and inside neighbourhood temples where the etiquette actually matters.
No location access needed — just tell us the city.
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100 points to Explorer
Scores are saved in this browser on this device only. No account, no email, nothing sent anywhere. Clearing your browser data clears your score.
These challenges only work here. Play them in any order — the game will mix them with quests that work anywhere in Thailand.
Explore · Easy · 100 points · 1 hr
Use a public river or canal boat instead of a taxi for one journey.
The catch: No private longtail charter.
Bonus +50: Take a canal boat as well as a river boat.
Food & Drink · Quick · 50 points · 30 min
Eat a meal sitting on a plastic stool on the pavement.
The catch: No air conditioning, no table cloth.
Bonus +25: Add one condiment from the caddy you have never used.
Local Culture · Easy · 100 points · 45 min
Visit a neighbourhood temple and observe every custom correctly.
The catch: Not one of the ticketed headline temples.
Bonus +25: Stay for a few minutes of chanting if any is happening.
Hidden Gems · Adventure · 200 points · 1–2 hrs
Visit a fresh market at dawn instead of a night market.
The catch: No night markets today.
Bonus +50: Try a fruit you cannot name.
Share your Side Quest
Send Bangkok side quests to whoever you're travelling with. The link opens this city ready to play.
https://buybeforeyoufly.com/de/side-quest/bangkok
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A side quest is a small, self-contained challenge you can complete wherever you happen to be standing. Side Quest is a free browser-based travel game from Buy Before You Fly: you tell it which city you are exploring, choose the kind of adventure you are in the mood for, and it hands you something unexpected to do. Every quest is built from an objective, a constraint that makes it interesting, and an optional bonus — so instead of another list of the same twenty attractions, you get a reason to walk down a different street, order something you cannot pronounce, or look at one painting for twenty minutes.
There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. It works on the phone in your pocket, in the gap between a late checkout and an evening flight, or on a full free day in a city you have never visited.
Markets, bakeries, street food and the dish locals order without looking at the menu.
One room, one object, one story — museum challenges that beat drifting past everything.
The landmark experiences, with a twist that stops them feeling like a checklist.
Neighbourhood walks, wrong turns on purpose and streets guidebooks skip.
Small photo missions that train you to notice details other travellers walk past.
Language, music, craft, ritual and everyday life where you happen to be standing.
Parks, water, viewpoints and green detours between the busy bits.
The small, quiet, odd and overlooked corners of a city.
Side Quest has no accounts, no friend lists and no leaderboards to join — which is exactly what makes it easy to play together. Everyone opens the page on their own phone, plays the same city, and compares screenshots at dinner. Agree on a target before you split up: first to 500 points, most quests completed before sunset, or one epic quest each. Points are kept in your own browser, so the only scoreboard is the one you keep between you.
Side Quest is free and always will be. When you want the rest of the trip sorted, the same site covers it:
Country-by-country guides, things to do and short itineraries.
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