Symbol of Saigon: Cyclos to be completely banned by June 2008

by Anna Brones   Mar 2nd 2008

It was a hot afternoon in Saigon. I was sitting in a small plastic chair, busy drinking an iced Vietnamese coffee, when a smiling man came up to me.

"City cyclo tour? I give best one. So good, I'm in magazine. Magazine comes by I wave and say hello and they take picture."

Sure enough, there he was smiling brightly, smack dab in the center of a long article about cyclo city tours. When I told him "no, thank you very much," that obviously wasn't good enough for an answer, so he proceeded to leaf through a small, worn book that he was carrying. He pulled out two plasticized 3x5 cards and laid them down on the table. They were consumer testimonials. He had many in his book, probably in over 10 languages, but he put down one in English and one in French for me.

See full text at http://www.gadling.com/2008/03/02/
symbol-of-saigon-cyclos-to-be-completely-banned-by-june-2008/