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Driving And Walking In Ho Chi Minh City

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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The Vietnamese Philosophy on driving in Ho Chi Minh city.

The Vietnamese Philosophy on driving in Ho Chi Minh city.

So, this post is going to be about motor vehicle traffic (mostly motor scooters), pedestrians, and how they interact in Ho Chi Minh city. The T-shirt above fairly describes the attitude of most Vietnamese about driving in HCM. When I was in Kathmandu, Nepal, I never got on a motor bike and consequently, I always drove in taxis to get around the city. Best mode of transportation, albeit, I described it as being in an action movie chase scene, with the requisite near misses of other vehicles, cows, dogs, chickens, and people. The saving grace was that the traffic was so bad and the streets were either pot-holed or rough dirt roads, that you rarely attained speeds faster than 35 MPH. If you got in an accident, you would probably be a bit “banged up,” but alive.

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Vietnamese SUV 4 Passenger Motor Bike . . .

22 Saturday Feb 2014

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Ho Chi Minh city, motor bike, Vietnam

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All of these SUVs come with the convertible feature for supreme open air motoring . . .

Posted by blade3colorado | Filed under Miscellaneous Travel

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Oakley Sunglasses, 4 Movies Watched, And Wiped Out In Vietnam

18 Tuesday Feb 2014

Posted by blade3colorado in Miscellaneous Travel

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I left Denver, Colorado on time at 12:20pm, February 11th and fast forward thru the time continuum, I finally arrived in Ho Chi Minh City at 1:30am, February 13th. Yawn . . . A bit wiped out to say the least, as Customs and Immigration took over an hour, coupled with a half hour taxi to my hotel, I think I finally fell asleep at 3:00am (maybe 3:30am). Dunno exactly . . . Ha.
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