Stop signs

Imagine a city of 8 million or more people. Now imagine that that city has no stop signs. Hard to image.... but that is Ho Chi Minh City and the whole south of Vietnam. Sure they have traffic circles and the street lights in some major places but that is about it. The secret is that no one speeds. Everyone goes at the same pace. The only person I saw speeding on our whole journey through South Vietnam turned out to be an American. So watch the video to see it work.... one is from the hotel roof and the other is us just walking across the street. Once you realize that traffic never stops and you follow a local into oncoming traffic, you see and get into the rhythm of stepping off the curb, out into 20 advancing cars and 100 scooters and motorbikes, and walking slowly but steadily across the street.... is how everyone does it and it just somehow makes perfect sense...and I found it no end of fun. This marks the end of our Vietnam journey we are heading back to Thailand then off to Cambodia...