Crossing the Street in Saigon

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) has some of the craziest traffic in the world--streets clogged full of motorbikes. Chinatown is the worst. Traffic controls are basically a joke, so crossing the street as a pedestrian requires a particular approach--which is basically to start walking at a steady pace, and everyone will weave around you. It actually works. I make it straight across, while Eric is too tentative.

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Travel & Events

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• Saigon
• Ho
• Chi
• Minh
• City
• street
• crossing
• pedestrian
• motorbikes
• scooters
• Vietnam
• traffic

[Mrherbalful]

I heard a great analogy for crossing the street in HCMC, "You are a rock, and the traffic is the water. It flows around you"

[Kenddrick]

i remember crossing and saying mission accomplished!!!

[zSuperCrazyz]

Chill out guys . They just gonna hit the break as hard as they can if they think they gonna hit you somehow

[yoko1998]

what you do is dont stop walking haha what they do is the bikers will manage to get around you =P im viet.

[trido1986]

beautiful country,kind people,,want living there,,,,for me

[r0cd0x]

haha i like the little lady hiding behind the guy in the beginning.

[punkrockballad]

I remember doing that! Amazing!

[back4goodnova]

Ha ha,you guys are really brave:))I've been in VN and never durst to do like that;))

[WuHa105]

Scary...but Vietnam still is coooool!

[hsle317]

Holy shit. you are a brave man. I'm 17 and could never manage to cross a saigon street.