Saigon: Motorbike city

Some tipp in advance: be sure to fill out the blue/white arrival card (available in the plane), no matter if you have a visa or not. If you don’t, you may end up like me standing in a queu for 20min twice!

Saigon has terrible traffic, thousands and ten thousands of motorbikes. finding their ways through the streets. The taxi driver was driving very concentrated, sometimes just some inches away of crashing into another car or motorbike. But nothing happened.. Never saw any accident there.

I stayd in Hotel Kim, very nice hotel for about 20$ in the Traveller district Bui Vien.

Some guys asked me to rent a motorbike, first i thought he was kidding, but he meant it deadly serious! Another thing is corring a street, but it’s easier than i first thought. Just walk slowly over the street. The motorbike drivers will get their way around you. The biggest mistake would be to walk unsteady back and forth! Marco from New York, who lived in Saigon since 4 month, told me that once a german guy freaked completely out in the middle of a street. He screamed “STOP, STOP IT !!”. They didn’t hear him i suppose…

After i was encourated to take the service of the moto taxis, i was driving all around the city. The drivers could bring you everywhere, just for 2$. Good thing is that they don’t drive that fast like the kamikaze motorbike taxi drivers in bangkok. In Vietnam they they drive more gentle. there was never a situation where i felt unsave, and i hope it will stay like this!