We arrived in Saigon about two pm and met our guide who looks like she is about 15. Our hotel is along the river just on the outskirts of the Old French Quarters. Saigon as we know it does not have the history of Hanoi and is more crowded and much larger. Statistically there are 9 million people and 6 million undocumented. We spied Starbucks and McDonalds along the way to the hotel neither of which were in Hanoi. Night is falling and the city is turning on her lights. Although there are more cars and scooters on the streets, the drivers stay in their lanes and the scooters are limited to two passengers. Mai told us that if there are 3 on a scooter the one in the middle had better be ill. Apparently the police enforce this law, but they cannot enforce the no parking on the sidewalk law. Like all of the other cities we visited scooters line the side walk sometimes two deep. Troy and I immediately noticed the difference in Saigon from the other cities we visited. There is graffiti, people are not very welcoming and there is not a gently spirit about it that we noticed in other cities. Still we are looking forward to exploring and going out into the countryside over the next few days. More tomorrow about South Vietnam.