As companies increasingly prioritize corporate culture, team cohesion, and emotionally engaging experiences, Amazing Race has emerged as one of the most preferred team building formats. Going beyond physical games alone, Amazing Race combines movement, exploration, problem-solving, interaction, and creativity to create a holistic journey that engages both body and mind.

For businesses, Amazing Race addresses multiple objectives simultaneously:

• Strengthening teamwork, communication, and strategic collaboration
• Encouraging flexible thinking, problem-solving, and fast decision-making
• Creating shared emotional experiences that foster deeper understanding and stronger bonds among team members
• Integrating cultural values and local identity, ensuring the program feels authentic rather than formulaic

As a result, Amazing Race today is not merely a team building activity, but a strategic tool that helps organizations recharge their teams, cultivate a strong “one team” spirit, and convey corporate messages in a subtle and meaningful way.

Discover a signature Amazing Race Saigon program with Exotic Vietnam – where corporate objectives are seamlessly connected with the city’s vibrant urban rhythm, layered history, and rich cultural fabric, in one of Vietnam’s most dynamic cities.

Saigon – An Ideal Setting for Corporate Amazing Race

Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City is a special urban center of Vietnam, where past and present coexist within a fast-paced, open, and constantly evolving rhythm. The city traces its origins back more than 300 years to the era when the Nguyen Lords “advanced southward to open new lands” ,gradually transforming the once-wild Gia Dinh – Dong Nai region into a strategic frontier and an important trading hub.

Through the colonial era, when Saigon was known as the “Pearl of the Far East,” the city continued to accumulate rich layers of historical and cultural heritage. Iconic landmarks such as the Central Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral, Nha Rong Wharf, Ben Thanh Market, and the vibrant streets of Districts 1, 3, and 5 (under the administrative structure prior to July 2025) are not merely tourist attractions, but living witnesses to Saigon’s long and evolving journey of development.

Today, built upon this legacy, Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City has emerged as one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic centers for economy, creativity, and international integration, where the pioneering spirit, boldness, and adaptability continue to pulse through everyday urban life.

Saigon is also a meeting point of diverse cultural communities, including Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, Khmer, and Cham, creating a colorful, open, and energetic urban fabric. Its rich street food culture, lively daily rhythms from early morning to late night, and the warm, open-hearted nature of its people form the city’s distinctive “living texture.”

It is precisely this convergence of history, culture, economy, and people that makes Saigon an ideal backdrop for corporate Amazing Race programs – a true “urban racecourse” where each challenge reflects real city life, every decision demands agility, and every step embodies the spirit of adaptability, innovation, and collaboration.

Amazing Race Scenario in the Heart of Saigon

The Amazing Race Saigon program is designed around the city’s central area – now administratively known as Saigon Ward – where key historical, architectural, cultural, and urban lifestyle values converge. The walking route spans approximately 3,000 meters, making it suitable for a wide range of participants, from young professionals to middle management and senior leaders.

The program features four main challenges built around the themes of history, architecture, urban life, and cuisine, complemented by community interaction tasks to enhance experiential depth.

Warm-up & Team Formation

• Each participant receives a conical hat in a different color at the hotel.
• Participants move to the starting point and form teams based on hat colors.
• Teams appoint a captain and take part in the opening Human Knot challenge, emphasizing communication, patience, and coordination.
• The winning team earns the right to choose its team name (representing Vietnamese cities such as Ha Long, Da Nang, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Saigon, Phu Quoc) and starts first.

Main Challenges & Bonus Tasks

• History – Independence Palace: Visit Independence Palace, a historic building that once served as the presidential palace of the former Republic of Vietnam prior to 1975. Teams answer questions related to the city’s history.
  Bonus: Take photos highlighting the palace’s distinctive architectural features.
• Architecture – Saigon Central Post Office: Teams enter the Post Office, send a postcard, and listen to a brief introduction to French Indochinese architecture in Saigon. By using ChatGPT, teams identify and distinguish Indochinese architectural features based on images of the city’s iconic buildings.
  Bonus: Take a team photo inside the Post Office’s classical architectural interior.
• Community Life – Nguyen Hue Walking Street: Teams observe advertising signage and digital billboards on high-rise buildings along Nguyen Hue Walking Street. Using images provided by the referees, teams identify and correctly fill in the missing brand names.
  Bonus: Take a team photo in the “Yomost” style, capturing the moment when all team members jump simultaneously with their feet off the ground.
• Cuisine – Ben Thanh Market: Teams receive images of ingredients used to create dishes that represent the “flavors of Saigon”. Based on these images, they select and taste iconic Saigon dishes such as banh mi (Vietnamese baguette sandwich), hu tieu (Southern-style noodle soup), fresh spring rolls (goi cuon), and iced milk coffee (Vietnamese iced coffee with condensed milk), all prepared using the featured ingredients.
  Bonus: Take a team photo in the lively atmosphere of the traditional market.

Closing Activity

The program concludes at a restaurant with a spacious setting for the final activity: a collective hand-painted artwork, serving as a highly symbolic highlight. Each brushstroke represents an individual contribution, yet only when combined does the full picture emerge – reflecting the core philosophy of a sustainable and well-coordinated organization.

Program Value for Businesses

Amazing Race Saigon is not merely a race, but an experiential journey that mirrors the realities of today’s corporate environment – fast-paced, open, multi-dimensional, and constantly evolving.

Through a series of thoughtfully designed challenges set within a vibrant urban context, the program delivers tangible value to organizations:

• Connecting people through emotionally engaging shared experiences in an authentic urban setting
• Strengthening adaptability, flexible thinking, and rapid decision-making – core competencies in modern business environments
• Fostering a spirit of collaboration and respect for diversity, as each participant contributes a distinct role within a diverse team
• Enabling teams to view the city – and their own organization – as an interconnected ecosystem that requires seamless coordination to operate effectively

Taken together, these experiences help Amazing Race Saigon build lasting team cohesion, reinvigorate the workforce, and transform team building into a highly practical and strategic organizational tool.

Exotic Vietnam – A Trusted DMC in Vietnam

With many years of experience in MICE, team building, and incentive travel, Exotic Vietnam is a trusted partner for both domestic and international corporate clients. What sets Exotic Vietnam apart is not only its operational expertise, but also its client-centric approach – carefully listening to each company’s objectives, messages, participant profiles, budgets, and experiential expectations.

On this foundation, Exotic Vietnam designs tailor-made Amazing Race programs, offering flexibility in content, duration, and investment level, while consistently ensuring strong local character, meaningful experiential depth, and effective team engagement. Amazing Race Saigon stands as a clear example of how a team building program can authentically reflect the spirit of a modern city while conveying organizational values in a subtle and sustainable way.

Exotic Vietnam does more than organize events – it partners with businesses to transform objectives into experiences, and experiences into lasting value.