Saturday 15 March 2008

Traffic Chaos in Hanoi

We've had some more difficulties posting blog entries from the hotel here in Hanoi. First we couldn't get to any blogspot.com websites, and then after posting our first post we couldn't even get to Blogger.com (the site where you actually interface with Blogspot to compose posts etc) - but today Blogger has at least been intermittent, so we might have more success. The good news is that apparently neither blogspot nor blogger are blocked by the VN Govt (our problems must have been local to the hotel) so we should have more success from here on out.

In our first post, I wrote about the traffic chaos and mentioned that I'd post a video, well, here it is (via youtube)

This was taken from a place called Highland Cafe on the fourth floor overlooking a five-way intersection. I'm not sure that the video quite captures the actual chaos (or maybe we are just getting more used to the chaos after a couple of days.) We've just been up to the same spot for a coffee after dinner (9pm Saturday night) and things seemed even more hectic. Unfortunately we didn't have the camera this time - otherwise we'd probably bore you with another similar video...

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