Wicked places in Asia

If you are a guy and want to go local, get a haircut. You can either go to a shop or try one of the barbers in the streets. No matter what hairstyle you request, you will get the same hair cut. Super short at the sides and a bit fluffy on the top. In addition to your new style the few stray hairs on your ears will also get plucked. You can even have your ears cleaned. The hairdresser then mount a headlamp and dick into your ear canals with a long stick. Whatever he catch he will deliberately put it on a napkin on your shoulder, so you see how much he have managed to get out. It can be a very violating feeling to have your ears clean that well.

Karaoke is BIG in Asia and Vietnam is no different. Every city, town and village have at least a couple of enterprises with private rooms furnished with a plastic couch and a huge TV. Some of the more dodgy ones might even sports some red light. Here you can scream along with your friends or have that romantic duet with your chosen one.
Keep in mind that in Vietnam and neighbouring countries karaoke bars also doubles as brothels, so not all karaoke goers are that keen on singing.

Narrow buildings are iconic for Vietnam, and no place is it more extreme than in Hanoi. Plots have been split and split until the front is no wider than a double bed. There are never any windows on the side of the building and paint is something that is only used on the facade. A good game is to find the slimmest building in the old quarter - and we have a guess.

Sapa town planning when down the drain a long time ago. The charming old French colonial buildings are heavily outnumbered by slim concrete monsters, and more are coming. Every time someone managed to put up another hotel with a bit of view, some entrepreneurial soul had score the lot in front and will at first destroy the peace with construction hammering for then finally obstruct the view for good. So walking around Sapa can at times feel like trespassing a never ending work site - but it does create some wicked architecture.

The streets in the Old Quarter was originally named after what was sold there. Hang means merchandise, so the street names are like Hang Gai for Hemp Street (now known as Silk Street), Hang Mam for Fish Sauce Street, Hang Be for Bamboo Raft Street... and so on. Hang Bac is the Silver Street, but it is also here you find the tombstone carvers. The tombstones are made really detailed with pictures and everything. To attract some attention to his shop, one carver came up with the wicked idea to make a tombstone for Britney Spears.

Recently the picture of Britney has been replaced with one of Michael Jackson, which actually makes more sense.

Traffic in Vietnam is in general mind blowing, but rush hour in Ho Chi Ming City is down right scary. Like a human ant nest scores of scooters, and a few cars and cyclos, fill the streets in a random manner of slow zigzagging and dodging. They come from every direction, some even on the sidewalk or against the traffic, and signs and traffic lights are rarely obeyed (red is just another shade of green). The strange thing is though, traffic jams hardly occur. There exists a strange system of courtesy which means any one can cross the street without getting hit. Just keep walking in the same slow pace and the traffic will flow around you.