Well after a none-to-fun flight, I was in Saigon. And I rate it better than Hanoi. Considerably better. Not only is crossing the road not an extreme sport, but people don't just chuck their rubbish on the ground, and spit of the ground, and urinate in the street. I hated stepping in puddles in Hanoi, because I didn't know what the hell was in there, or perhaps worse, I knew what was probably in there. There were quite a few billboards in Saigon, which is something Hanoi didn't have, but, and I have no idea how they did this, the billboards seemed almost... tastefully done. Well at least it didn't look tacky, seedy, or overdone. Thus, in terms of billboards, it was incredibly tasteful. The first night there we had a cyclo tour (my views on
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