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Horrible Morning Saigon Traffic Jam

Submitted by on Monday, August 20, 2007 – 10:19 pm3 Comments |

Wow, it is really amazing at how bad the traffic in Saigon has become just in a couple of months.  I was going from my house, in the Phu Nhuan District, to the Omni Hotel.  Normally the trip on my motorbike would take a little more than 5 minutes.  Today, it took me nearly 20 minutes. I hit a traffic jam on Pham Van Hai street which tends to be a free flowing street.  Since I could not move anywhere, I started to honk my horn and turned right going against the flow of traffic.  I then hit a second traffic jam near the Novotel Hotel.  Eventually I made it to the Omni Hotel…

saigontraffic3 Horrible Morning Saigon Traffic Jam

(In front of me)

saigontraffic4 Horrible Morning Saigon Traffic Jam

(Left of Me)

saigontraffic5 Horrible Morning Saigon Traffic Jam

(Second traffic jam)

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