Road clue guides · Asia
How to recognise Vietnam from the road
Drives on the right
Tall, narrow houses, scooters and rice paddies. Vietnam uses the Latin alphabet, but with more accents than anywhere else.
What to look for
1
Traffic on the right
Vietnam drives on the right, while Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia drive on the left.
2
Heavy accents
Vietnamese is written in Latin letters stacked with accents, such as ư, ơ, đ and ế.
3
Tube houses
Houses are tall and very narrow, often several storeys high and only one room wide.
4
Scooters and paddies
Scooters dominate the roads, and flat green rice paddies fill the river deltas.
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