guys this is a quick driving tip for you
if you
live in vietnam and you want
a car lane or a driving lane all to
yourself all you got to do
is just drive in the sun vip
lane alrighty guys well
if you remember from the last video i'm
out here at night airport and i drove
out here just for a little thumbnail and
quick intro for the other video
so i thought i shouldn't waste this
drive i gotta drive back into the city
through this beautiful road and through
this from the outskirts of hanoi
all the way back into the city center so
i figured
why not shouldn't waste this trip why
don't i
take you guys for a drive and talk about
what it's actually like
driving here in vietnam because i've
been driving here three years
i love driving motorbikes southeast asia
is extremely famous for its
motorbikes i love driving them i also
have a license here this is actually the
only country other than the u.s i have a
license in
so i really feel like i understand the
laws here i understand the rules i drive
very safe i'm a very i'm a very good
driver actually
thanks mom and dad for teaching me so
well
uh but i thought i'd show you guys
around and what other what better way to
uh do that than actually taking you guys
on the road so
i got all my gear i got my god damn it's
hot
i got my driving gloves got my nice uh
jacket to protect me from the sun
sunglasses
and now
helmet oh yeah
we're ready to go all we need is a chest
strap
how's this gonna work chest strap and we
got
potentially hold on let me see how this
is gonna work guys
i gotta adjust the camera so that it
i hope this is working fine there's
nothing on the lens right
i don't have like a gopro mount or
anything for this camera so this is uh
we're gonna have to do and i think
you guys should be attached quite quite
well now huh
you guys aren't gonna move around or
anything yeah you seem pretty good
i think this is good guys hopefully you
can see me
am i filming
filming good so
let's go for i hope you guys can hear me
okay let's go for a drive
no special equipment no special effects
let's go i'm almost out of a gas here if
you can see so we'll have to stop for
gas on the way back but
let's drive back into hanoi
so obviously you guys can't see exactly
what i'm doing but i'll try to explain
we get across the road here there's a
giant truck coming
okay we are off guys
so first thing you may notice if if
you're a foreigner and you've
never visited vietnam is that vietnam's
pretty damn modern
so like it's not at all like i thought
it was gonna be
like the roads are modern people drive
cars nice motorbikes i mean this
motorbike here is like two thousand
dollars
and everything is a lot more like
developed to giant buildings
but they definitely use different
rules when driving here so
much different than we're used to in the
west
obviously there's tons of motorbikes
like i'm driving and you're going to see
that more as we get
more into the city but you know
regardless of that there's still good
signage the road quality is not bad
um yeah it's a lot different than i
thought it was going to be
first thing you're going to notice in
vietnam is that people do not
look when they pull out of places so
this white car right obviously just
pulled right out in front of me
people tend to look in front of them
when they're driving so
it's not like in the west where
you have laws about like for example if
you're pulling out of a place right you
you give right away to these
bigger uh or you give right away to
people who are traveling on the main
road right
that's technically the law here in
vietnam but that's not how it usually
works
so people just if you could see way out
there that motorcycle just flew across
the road
people don't really have right-of-way
here what it is is like
if you have space you go and so
and you'll see people going the wrong
way god damn there's so much to talk
about
so people just fly out of random like
alleyways you have to be very very
careful
people will jump in front of you when
you least expect it
these are all things that you have to
really
pay attention to when you're driving
here
so typically the rule is like if there's
space people will go and you need to be
prepared for that
at all times so as i'm driving i'm
constantly scanning here it's
it's not very busy there's like no cars
over here no motorbikes
typically these smaller roads in the
city you'll see people just flying out
and they're not looking and they will
cut you off they will go in front of you
it's just it's just how the road works
here guys
so i'm always constantly looking as far
as i can ahead like i'm looking down
this
this road i'm looking at this taxi to
see if potentially he'll pull out right
in front of me
these things will happen and you need to
be prepared for them this is a good
reminder for vietnamese people too like
they will
it will happen
and also this is it you have to be
prepared for random things on the road
so the road is not just shared or not
just used by motorists
but as you can see people drying like
grain and mill and things like that
people will literally they will be trash
on the road there will be like
people again like drying their mill and
their grains like
you have to be prepared for everything
when you drive here guys
it's pretty crazy especially when you're
driving a motorbike because like little
things
little things can uh
like knocked you over you know you lose
your
wheel like you only have two wheels
right so you one wheel loses traction
and you're completely screwed
you'll also see vehicles come on to the
wrong side of the road
right so the car started to creep on my
side of the road so they wanted to pass
a motorbike on his side
and you have to be prepared for that you
have to like maneuver around and prepare
to stop be prepared to uh
be prepared to like move into little
crevices on your side of the road
how it is
okay i think i'm not mistaken i think
there is a gas station to the left here
but i'm not mistaken uh one really
interesting thing about vietnam
see how the light is on the close side
of the road guys
so this is where i'm stopped the lights
are on the opposite side of the road
so it's not like the west where we uh
have our lights on the other side
sometimes they have boat
but they'll never have um they'll never
not have a light like on
your side of the road there's our gas
station
pv oil let's get some gas
did you use blinkers here usually
let's see where did motorbikes fill up
bob
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i was so in vietnam when you fill up on
gas hold on let me reset my uh that's
one thing i like about this bike you can
reset the mile count or the kilometer
count i should say because we use
kilometers here in vietnam
so i always know roughly when i get to
like 150 to like 200 depending on
the roads i'm driving the speed i'm
driving like i need to start filling up
it also has a gas meter but i know
roughly like when i'm getting
close to running out so with gas here in
vietnam you just like you don't fill it
until you fall i mean you can
you can say like like by like
usually they just feel according to like
a mountain like give me 60k worth of gas
you kind of learn like what your
motorbike will take
you just kind of fill it up like that
and it's not like the states where we
fill up gas ourselves
so this is really interesting if you're
a vietnamese person watching this here
in vietnam right
you someone fills up your gas for you
unless you're driving a car cars seem to
fill up their own gas
but in america like we all fill up our
own gas so there's no workers to fill up
gas
so passing passing happens
everywhere at all times in vietnam blind
corners it doesn't matter
people will pass you people will pass on
the other side of the road and almost
hit you
you need to be prepared i never do that
right because i'm not gonna pass someone
when i can't see but the fact of the
matter is like people here will
will do that they will patch you at
random places
that place that they shouldn't and they
will almost cause accidents
it's amazing it's amazing that there
aren't more accidents to be honest
we're still on like the really far
outskirts of the city it's windy i don't
know if you guys can hear me we're still
on the really far outskirts of the city
so
i'm probably gonna switch the camera up
here we'll talk a little more when we
get closer
like that i mean this is a
i think this is a one-way road this is
the thing the sign is sometimes is off
too like this is a yellow line which
would mean like two-way right
but things changed so fast here
that this could be a one-way now i just
don't know i think i see arrows out
there that showed two ways
i'm pretty sure this is still a two-way
but there are roads where it's like it's
become a one-way
even though it used to be two-way see
the different arrows should be
i don't know but like he couldn't see
over that hill and he still passed right
so i'm gonna switch off the camera we'll
talk about more when we get
here we're going to cross one of my
favorite bridges in
all of vietnam which is kung thunder and
yep bridge as you can see on that big
sign
and this is one of the places where you
can get one of the best views
of like the outside of hanoi you're
going to see all the skyscrapers and
at night this bridge actually lights up
it's not lit up right now obviously
because it's daytime but
it looks really nice at night
why not go straight okay guys this round
is called
one interesting thing in vietnam is that
all the roads are typically named after
like historical figures so
was a historical figure in vietnamese
history and
major the majority of the other roads
like
uh like when she's hanging they're all
historical figures
vietnam places a lot of emphasis on
their history so
they do have a very long and uh
also very proud you see history bumps
you have to avoid them
all right now we are officially kind of
in the city guys so this is uh
we're gonna start to see more motorbikes
we're not quite we're like the very
outside but
we're essentially back in the city
you're gonna start to see a lot more
motorbikes
a lot more people things are gonna get a
little more interesting
all right first thing you're gonna
notice if you see the guy going across
the road
the wrong way and through the red light
is that green does not always mean go in
vietnam you always have to constantly be
scanning
constantly be aware because
people will go through red lights they
will cut you off this guy's going to
come right in front of me
is he oh he's not wow that's a first
but especially with lights green does
not mean go
red does not mean stop with vietnamese
people i wouldn't learn from that
if you're watching this and you're
vietnamese or foreign
don't don't copy that attitude but
that's what that's the attitude you need
to be
you need to have when you're thinking
about other drivers
green does not mean stop it's like green
does not mean go red does not mean stop
and uh also as a motorbike you can weep
through traffic and other people will do
it too
but you need to do it smart always be
ready for things to happen
oh yeah here we go now we're getting to
the fun part guys this is where we're
gonna
have some fun
you need to always be a step ahead so
like if you know someone's going to come
into your lane
you need to one you need to be looking
at your mirrors and you need to be
taking a quick look with your head
to see if anybody is actually in your
blind spot or is on the
on that side of you you need to have an
escape route essentially
and once you know that then you can get
out of the way they will be moving
to again they're just not looking behind
them like this guy could come right here
and if he comes right here i know i have
space
on my left to move into
essentially you always need to have a
place where you can move into you need
to always have a space
and if you don't you need to like slow
down and make a space or be prepared to
completely stop
like here when i'm going through this
roundabout like people won't stop
it's just like sort of right i'm just
gonna go right after this guy
these cars are gonna kind of go in front
of people i'm going to go in front of
this car
and then behind these bikes things just
flow people know
where they people know where they're
supposed to go here in vietnam
sometimes they don't and that's when
accident accidents happen and you always
need to be aware
but you need to you need to be ready to
flow with the
go with the flow go with the flow
okay one very interesting thing that
foreigners don't typically know i don't
know vietnamese people know it either
i think most people know it you're not
allowed to turn right on a red
unless there's a sign it'll say like yo
something like that but
many foreigners will turn right on reds
and actually it's illegal
so here there's no sign that's right
you're not allowed to turn right
well i mean you can unofficially but
according to the law you're not supposed
to
also lights unofficially turned green
like two to three seconds
before before they actually turn green
here
all right here is pothole heaven guys
this is one of the worst roads in
vietnam
they're so bumpy my god you really need
to be ready
not only to move yourself but also for
other people to move right in front of
you because they're avoiding a pothole
let's see this is the way you really
need to be using your gears and you're
ready for people to just cut in front of
you
like i'm only doing things like this
because i'm looking behind me i know you
guys can't see on this camera but i'm
constantly looking at my mirrors
to look behind me and make sure nobody's
behind me or
next to me and then i can actually like
move into these places that i'm using to
avoid potholes
i'm constantly aware of these things
guys
all righty guys and this is by far my
favorite thing about
driving a motorbike here in vietnam guys
it's just the freedom it gives you like
you know like i can just like get it on
here and like people will just park
their thing on the sidewalk like this
right like
and i could just run into the store
really quick i don't have to at my
filming
i don't have to find a place to park
right or i don't have to uh
you know worry about like
i don't know it's just like so
convenient so i love driving a motorbike
here
biggest piece of advice i'd give you i
didn't cover everything i thought it was
going to cover because this ended up
being long but i hope just like driving
here kind of showed you
how it was i don't know if you guys kind
of like these videos i kind of like this
first person point of view i know the
audio might not be the best but
i'll figure out a better solution if you
guys like them i kind of just like like
motorbike vlogs like this is kind of
cool i don't know maybe show you guys
around hanoi but i'm gonna
film another video in this direction
this is
back towards the outskirts of the city
again but i'm going to film another
video from like four videos today so
hope you guys enjoyed this one let me
know if you have any other ideas and
see in the next video peace