I prefer this name and apparently it is an acceptable alternative with the people. I am also realizing that I am glad that I did no research on these cities that we have and will visit on this trip. This has left me open to listening better to the tour guides and the lecturers, and it has opened me to being suprised. Bangkok was an odd mix of architecture and infrastructure (noisy and well used river ferries and a modern air conditioned sky train), and Sihanoukville was a disasaster, a squalid urban mess.
And today Saigon: a modern city in many ways with good roads, sidewalks, traffic lights, and many completed buildings. Due to high price of cars, most of the vehicles on the road are motorbikes and scooters - hundreds of them! More to follow...
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