Famous journalist Llewellyn King – founder and executive director of the White House Chronicles program broadcast nationally on PBS in the US – in the last days of 2014 wrote an article expressing his feelings when
Like many other European and American tourists coming to the Vietnamese capital, Llewellyn King did not pay much attention to the large, busy roads or the buildings from the French colonial period.
Tourists to Vietnam are often quite scared when crossing the street.
Looking at the movement on the street, American journalists think of ants, crowded and moving chaotically.
Not only King, many first-time visitors to Vietnam are not confident enough to drive themselves into the flow of traffic on the streets.
`I sat in the back seat of the taxi and watched everything. I was sure there would be bloodshed because people raced down the road with a determination that you can only see in Nascar racers, at high speeds.`
One of the things that makes tourists most apprehensive when coming to Vietnam is crossing the street.
A foreign tourist, after reading Llewellyn King’s article, also shared a lovely memory when talking about traffic in Vietnam: `Mr. King, I think when you come to Ho Chi Minh City you will find the traffic much more congested.
Describing Vietnam’s traffic, King said that this is `one of the wonders of the world`, it is like a ballet in which the actors are millions of people controlling the vehicles.
He also noticed that bicycles had almost disappeared from the streets of the capital, even though 20 years ago when he came to Vietnam, this was the main means of transportation for people.
Anh Minh (according to Huffingtonpost)