Scary VietNam Taxi Ride | Scary Taxi ride in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi
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Here are some tips with the taxi's in Vietnam.
Bring a smartphone with GPS (there's free GPS in Vietnam--no need for wifi). Research directions of where you want to go prior to getting on the taxi. Use the GPS function to see whether you're being driven the right way or just to indirectly let your driver know that you're not an naive tourist they can cheat.
Use tripadvisor app to help you locate sites
When entering the car, snap a pic of the driver's license, meter, contact information just in case you need to file a complaint after
Research ways in which taxis can scam you--be an informed traveller to avoid it!
Almost all the taxis we took cheated us by:
a. telling us to pay for toll (when we shouldn't have to)
b. pretending to be lost to take us to a restaurant to get commission
c. driving unnecessarily slow (do they get charged for the time?)
d. trying to sell us on unnecessary tour packages
If you happen to have a good and honest driver, ask for their card to call them again. It's rare!
Drivers in VN do not obey traffic law. Ask them not to pass double lines--it is unsafe for you as well as people on the road
if your drivers is honest and good, encourage and thank them for being honest and tip them well. It's a great way to change the culture.
ABOUT VIET NAM;
(Vietnamese have a break between the name, westerners tend to spell it as one word)
Vietnam (UK: /?vj?t'næm, -'n??m/, US: /?vi??t'n??m, -'næm/ (About this sound listen);[8] Vietnamese: Vi?t Nam [vî?t na?m] (About this sound listen)), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: C?ng hòa xã h?i ch? nghia Vi?t Nam (About this sound listen)), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 92.7 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast.[d] Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976, with Ho Chi Minh City as a historical city as well.
The northern part of Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. An independent Vietnamese state was formed in 939, following a Vietnamese victory in the Battle of B?ch Ð?ng River. Successive Vietnamese imperial dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century.
Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War, with heavy intervention by the United States on the side of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1973. The war ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.
Vietnam was then unified under a communist government but remained impoverished and politically isolated. In 1986, the government initiated a series of economic and political reforms which began Vietnam's path towards integration into the world economy.[10] By 2000, it had established diplomatic relations with all nations. Since 2000, Vietnam's economic growth rate has been among the highest in the world,[10] and, in 2011, it had the highest Global Growth Generators Index among 11 major economies.[11] Its successful economic reforms resulted in its joining the World Trade Organization in 2007. It is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. Vietnam remains one of the world's four remaining one-party socialist states officially espousing communism.
[source : Wiki]
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