Well, Ho Chi Minh City is not the kind of place you want to be in when you've had 2 hours sleep, may have drank a little too much the night before and you're far too hot. Our taxi driver from the airport told us it was a small city where 20 million people live and 5 million motorbikes & scooters are on the roads. That was before he tried to rip us off. We agreed $9 (they use a lot of US dollars here) yet 10 minutes later he was saying it was $12 plus a toll f...

I'm taking my stats back. The taxi driver was a liar as well trying to con us! Our tour guide yesterday for the Cu Chi tunnels told us that 9 million people live in Saigon...with 6 million motorbikes. That's 2 in every 3 people. He also said that it only takes 1 day to get your motorbike licence. You can tell. He also told us not to get upset today as Vietnam now has no problem with France or America. The tour is more about how the people pulled together to survi...