Malaysia was our last stop on this adventure. Per usual, we reserved a centrally located hotel because we love walking around a city. We quickly learned that KL is not a walkable city. To quote the travel website Travelfish, whose KL article is titled, Walking in Kuala Lumpur: Are you mad?: "Kuala Lumpur, with its energy-sapping climate, would be a tough place to be a pedestrian at the best of times. But combined with inadequate pavements, dangerous road crossings, and drivers who never, ever, stop for you, it can often be a complete nightmare to walk in the Malaysian capital." True that! Nevertheless, we persisted...
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Good morning [from] Vietnam! We spent several days in Hanoi, in northern Vietnam, where everyone and their mom owns a motorbike. There are literally millions of them! Similar to Shanghai, Hanoi traffic horns seem to be everyone's second language: drivers honk their horns, not in rage, but as a continuous communication tool ("Let me in," or "I'm passing on your left...on the sidewalk.")
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