Saigon city and airport 15 Feb 2016

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  Heading to airport... People in the park exercising (8am on a Monday) - notice the folks all lifting their left legs together. Way cool blue sign for the three lanes - in the left lane are cars, buses, trucks. In the middle lane scooters, cars, and vans. In the right lane, scooters, tiny scooter 3-wheel "trucks", and bicycle/pedestrians. MANY more scooters than cars here! Traffic is crazy but not gridlocked. Love the countdown timer on the lights. Crazy electrical wiring in Saigon just like in Cambodia. Green light has countdown timer too. Penang had this too, wish US did.

 
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  Locals eating breakfast at street cafe's. Tet and Chinese New Year celebrations continue. This is 8am on a Monday in Saigon, heading from District 1 to the airport. Love the street signs here. No words / translation needed. No having to read words like "right turn only". No need to speak the local language. Wish the US would adopt this.

 
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  At the airport just got out of the taxi. The overhead blue sign is interesting. "Well-Wishers Gallery" for Departures. Ok. Huge control tower at Saigon airport. Interesting that it's not symmetrical. In the duty free area, cute m&m truck dispensers.

 
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  Good varieties of m&m's here. The tables of this display are made of old sewing machines! Year of the Monkey. Cute and inventive way to carry your kid on your suitcase! Jet Star

 
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  VetJet Jetstar Pacific Vietnam Airlines Phillipines Nok Air (going to Bangkok I think)

 
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  FedEx is everywhere. Ramp is too small to hold a jet taxing by the parked ones, and a jet backing out, so jets are backed onto the taxiways... so taxiing jets can get by the ramp to get to their gate or get out to the runways. Love the tail logo on the Thai Airlines! Short squat tug with huge tires.

 
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  Air Asia Tiger Air Malaysia Airlines This one is our flight from Saigon to Kuala Lumpur.

 
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  The gate has lat/long. Have not noticed that in the US, will have to look for that now! Eva Air Aeroflot "The AirAsia Mobile App" :-)

 
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  Fuel truck, both front wheels turn! Thanks BillS for identifying, this is Mandarin Airlines. Priority boarding seats - from right wheelchair, cane, baby, pregnant? Or is the left one an obese guy :-)

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