In Vietnam, a Moto is ‘a Bionic Limb, a Magic Carpet, a Personal Jet Pack’

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  10.06.08 | 12:40 PM ET

imageAnyone who has traveled in Vietnam has seen the motos—everywhere. Patti McCracken paints a vivid portrait of the country’s moto culture in the Christian Science Monitor.

“Day after day, I’d watch—through taxi windows—the dizzying theater of street traffic,” she writes. “From my backseat perch, I’d jot notes to myself about the two- and three-wheeled vehicles minnowing around me, heaving with cargo—coconut-laden rickshaws; old bicycles bulging with baskets of raw meat; cyclo drivers pedaling oversized spools of cable wiring; and motorbike after motorbike weighted down with six-foot bookcases, stereos, refrigerators, extension ladders…From my view inside the taxi, I felt like an onlooker who’d been plopped down into the middle of a parade.”

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Tags: Asia, Vietnam

Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at the Matador Network and at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she loves to write about travel, history, sports, and culture high or low.


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