28th September 2008 Flew to Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon as the locals still like to call it). The traffic is really crazy here (as is the jumbled wiring which hangs low across the roads...). Makes Phnom Penh seem like a quiet backwater... There are millions of mopeds/motorbikes/bikes/cyclos criss-crossing the streets carrying up to four people at a time and all manner of other items, (animals, washing machines, piles of boxes, sheets of glass. You name it, you can get it on the back of a moped!) and appearing to bear scant regard for the rules of the road. It's quite common to find someone coming towards you on your side of the road... Everyone honks all the time to let everyone else know that they are there. Crossing the road calls for nerves of
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