Wow. That’s seems to be the only word that sums up my impression of Hanoi. The city is huge in some regards, with a population of about 4 million people it probably isn’t that large by some regards, but where you’re right down on the street you become overwhelmed by the shear volume of people. There are motorcycles everywhere, they’re on the road, on the sidewalk, going into stores, I mean everywhere. Just walking around you get a sense of sheer terror because the motorcycles don’t follow any rules. They zip where they want and at the speed they want with the only warning you have that you are going to be run over is a horn. The problem with the horn is that there are so many horns going off all the time you can’t tell if it’s for you or some other poor soul near you.