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# Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City
- URL: https://oroup.com/blog/2008/01/traffic-in-ho-chi-minh-city/
- Published: 2008-01-18T08:51:57.000Z
- Updated: 2008-01-18T08:51:57.000Z
- Description: I’ve been in a lot of cities with crazy traffic. Boston has no lane markers on the roads and few street signs. I once thought that was bad. Bangkok has congestion that means traffic jams at any hour of the…
- Author: Oliver Roup
- Tags: Travel, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-05 22:27

I’ve been in a lot of cities with crazy traffic. Boston has no lane markers on the roads and few street signs. I once thought that was bad.

Bangkok has congestion that means traffic jams at any hour of the day or night.

Moscow is still the only city I’ve been where I felt as a pedestrian that the cars were genuinely trying to kill me.

But still, nothing quite prepared me for Ho Chi Minh City. Every road has an endless stream of scooters carrying 1-5 passengers. Nobody stops, ever. Traffic merges and splits in a continuous and chaotic process that feels a lot like a river. Trucks and buses ease out into traffic and the little particles flow smoothly around them. Or sometimes they don’t…

[Observe.](http://www.youtube.com/v/evIu12W7bBM?ref=oroup.com)