Subject: Post: <p>Today we got an idea to visit the historical site of My Son. Unfortunately it is located some 40 kilometers from Da Nang, over an hour drive. Taxi would be rather expensive (like 20eur one way.. :) ) so we naturally selected an economy option of self-driving.</p><p></p><p>In Vietnam driving cars or motorcycles is only allowed with Vietnamese driver's license or with the international license. I didn't think about that while still in Finland or actually did not even plan to come to Vietnam, so did not obtain such license before the trip. The international license is nowadays basically useless anywhere in the world, but seems like here not.</p><p></p><p>There was a solution though. Electric scooters are not limited by the license. So, we got one. And they are not even bad, this one had 100km real range and was going 50km/h silently. The acceleration performance with one fat guy and one smaller person was not great, but good enough.</p><p></p><p>Vietnamese traffic is not nice though. It's way worse than in most Asian countries like Thailand. 90% of the traffic is scooters, and nobody follows any basic traffic rules like driving directions and lines. In cities it's feeling like a video game where everything is trying to hit you from all directions, you have to avoid them and you have only one life. :)</p><p></p><p>Well, we survived just fine. And My Son was rather nice, although hot place in the jungle. Also visited a Greek restaurant and an another night market.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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