Apparently there are 6 million mopeds in Saigon, and we hate every single one of them. Its the most congested, and thanks to the constant tooting of horns, the nosiest city we've been too so far. The word chaos doesn't do it justice. Crossing the road is a living nightmare. Nobody stops at lights or zebra crossings so you're confronted with a constant stream of traffic that might be 10 mopeds deep all whizzing past at different speeds. Its like that classic computer game, frogger. We stayed in an area of the city called Pham Ngu Lao which seems to be where most of the backpackers hang out. We were warned about the agressive selling tactics of the Vietnamese, and sure enough, from the moment we climbed out of the taxi we were being hounded
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