They resound with beeping horns and screeching brakes, and traffic lights are a new phenomenon at most major intersections. Women wind their way between the endless stream of motorbikes carrying baskets balanced on poles with freshly cut flowers, vegetables, fruits and chickens bound for market. Steel girders are transported to building sites using bicycles or a cyclo. The city's sidewalks teem with entrepreneurs. Women set up portable food stands, and serve soups, rice and noodles.
Bike mechanics hunker beside their tire pumps and wrenches, awaiting their next client.
Pete Peterson's motorbike tour of Hanoi Like most foreigners living in Hanoi, Ambassador Peterson enjoys getting on his Honda Dream II motorbike and touring the city streets. Here are his recommendations of what to see in the central part of Hanoi. Click on the numbered spot for more information 1. This is Vietnam's leading museum and a center for cultural and historical research. It features exhibits designed so that the viewer can walk through the different periods of Vietnam's history.