The first thing you'll do in this country is to take a look at the faces of the Vietnamese. How do they exactly look like? Chinese? Thai or Indonesian look? When I walked out of the airport.. I felt like a movie star. There were so many people waiting outside the airport with a cleared walkway for you to walk out. They look like Thais. More towards the dark side but yet abit of the chinese look.

In our taxi on the way to our hotel, New World Hotel. The traffic was conjested. We were overwhelmed by the road populated with scooters. There were so many people on the streets. The roads were full of car horning sounds.. forever horning. You felt as if nobody in Vietnam stayed home. It's so densely populated on the roads and streets. Inside the taxi, I felt as if the window pane was a thin line of separation between the fortunate and the unfortunate. Or maybe we weren't used to it. People in this country do not really dress well on the streets. Everything looked old. Everybody were looking for money on the streets. Anything to find a way out for them. How to feed such a big population?

Scooters carried the men, the women, the old and the young kids. It's their main form of transport. Not even walking. The country was too hot to walk maybe. I saw a scene with a man and a woman on the scooter and a young 2 year old kid in the middle. There were more scooters on the street than the cars. To give it a figure, it's like 1 to 10 ratio. In fact, it was faster to travel by scooters. Cars had to give way to the scooters sometimes! Then most of the other cars are taxis. We were surprised by the traffic rules. Besides red light and green light, I think there are no other traffic rules. You can do anything on the road.. Making a U-turn out of nowhere.. making a turn out of nowhere.. cut lanes without thinking or signals.. Phew.. I really hate to cross their roads. Zebra crossings never work. Haha.

A short "expressway" took about 20-30 minutes due to the congested traffic. It's always crowded at any time of the day. Thank god, we finally reached.