Title: waste of money
Review: I wasted $$ buying this book which was, at best, marginally useful. The cycle taxi drivers in HCM City are not ex South Voetnamese army; they are simply dudes trying to scratch out a living. Worse still, there is too much emphasis on treating the environment properly and not enough on how, where and why to travel to various spots; I bought the book as a travel aid, not as a Cole's Notes on how to dispose of waste products. Once you get a bed in the right area in HCM city, you should, with some prior Internet research work, be able to get around yourself. The Cu Chi caves and Mekong trips are easily organized without this patchy volume. You can always pick up a discarded or pirated copy as you go along.
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