We spent 4 nights in Ho Chi Minh and were joined by Si Phong’s sister, Cong Soi who’ll be travelling with us for a fortnight before she returns to
Anyone who’s visited Ho Chi Minh will have been left with a lasting impression of the traffic. I’ve read of some European countries that conducted experiments in removing the traffic controls around junctions, entrusting motorists to negotiate right of way with each other. Ho Chi Minh is the proof on a massive scale! The city centre is built in a grid and apart from the rush hour, where traffic police are present, the mopeds come at each other from all directions yet miraculously, avoid colliding with each other. Crossing the road involves taking slow predictable steps in to the oncoming traffic and trusting the mopeds to swarm around you.
We probably overdid it a bit in Ho Chi Minh as I think you could get most of the sites done in 2 days. We’ll be heading off in to
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