All seeing eye

adventures above and below ground in Saigon

---

November 15th 2010
Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon to anyone who has spent more than one day there is a city on two wheels. When crossing the road it feels like all of the city's 4 million motorbikes are competing with you for road space. Rights of way are a mystery to outsiders but might is right in that the pecking order has the biggest vehicles taking precedence while pedestrians are right at the bottom of the food ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

---

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more