Traffic never sleeps

Another video from the back of a motorbike. This time in the evening after dinner. Perhaps its the narrow streets, maybe it's that nobody walks and everyone's in the street on a motorbike, pedal bike, three wheeler with or without motor or maybe its just the unfamiliarity of it all but it seems to me that more than any other city I've been in HCM is always bustling.

There has not been a time when the streets are not busy. For me its fascinating.

Life happens on the sidewalks here and moves in the streets. Motorbikes park everywhere and crowd the sidewalks. Where there aren't motorbikes there are vendors on the sidewalks selling pho (soup), rice and rice flour dishes and sandwiches. Also drinks of various sorts.

Then there are the customers sitting all around on various sorts of low plastic furniture. There is hardly room to move on the sidewalks. So everything that moves, pedestrians, bikes, motorbikes, three wheelers, cars, etc. moves in the street.

If you ever come to Ho Chi Minh be prepared to experience traffic in a way you've never imagined before.