# Tourism in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam: Help!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourism-in-laos-cambodia-and-vietnam-help/302350>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourism-in-laos-cambodia-and-vietnam-help/302350 "2005-05-04T10:57:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourism-in-laos-cambodia-and-vietnam-help/302350/21 "2005-05-06T12:54:53Z")

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My trip was just called off. Extenuating circumstances and all that.

Still, thank you all who bothered to respond in this thread.

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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourism-in-laos-cambodia-and-vietnam-help/302350/22 "2005-05-07T17:12:11Z")

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> [@Girl From Mars](#):
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> You have to be zen-like, just start walking across the road, at a constant pace, and trust that they will miss you. Don’t try and dodge, you’ll only get hit.

Must be an Asian thing. It’s the same in Hong Kong. But that’s just walking on the sidewalk. Avoid eye contact at all times if you want to avoid being hit by stray pedestrians.

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