| | Happy holidays! i'm having my warmest Christmas in my whole life this year -- spending 8 days in Vietnam backpacking with a few colleagues. We're getting up in 5 hrs for boat trip up Mekong River tomorrow but before i forget i needa put down a few thoughts in the past 8 hrs i've been in this country
1. Vietnam is a mini China
- Vietnam is a communist country
- Vietnam is market economy
- The Vietnamese government "logo" (or whatever the thing/pic/symbol that appears on the cover of your passport) looks exactly like China's, only with 1 star as opposed to China's 5.
- Vietnam's Asia's 2nd fastest growing economy, second to China
- Vietnam's GDP per capita is USD600, 60% of that of China
- Vietnamese Customs officers are dressed no different than Chinese "gong-an". Brown suit, green collars, brown straight pants.
- Ho Chi Minh City airport smells like the check point on the China side along the HK-Shenzhen border, especially the bathrooms
2. Customs people are interesting
- more on this later
3. Motorbikes rule the streets
i've never seen so many motorbikes in my life. They roam the streets like water gushes in a bursting river.
More on this later
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| | Posted 12/25/2006 12:50 PM - 1 view - 2 comments
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