The trip started in the city of Saigon is Southern Vietnam. The presenters were given 15 million Vietnamese dong to buy a car. This made the presenters happy as they thought that this was a lot of money to buy a car. However, they soon discovered that the 15 million dong was only worth 1000 US dollars. Jeremy stood in the rain and asked passer-byers if he could buy their car for the money he had. Later at lunch, they decided to buy bikes with Jeremy reluctantly trying to refuse. An hour later, they met the American War Museum with their bikes. Hammond purchased a Russian Minsk, May purchased an ancient Honda 50 Super Cub and Jeremy purchased a Vespa which has no stand. A producer hands them a challenge. It says that They are told to drive themselves from Saigon to Ha Long City. A journey t