
<p>Hotel advice to tourists wishing to cross a busy street in Hanoi, Vietnam: Be relaxed and self-confident. Look two ways or make eye contact with drivers. Walk slowly with purpose. Never step back.</p><p>According to a September 2012 article in The New York Times, "a decade or so of capitalist fervor has transformed Hanoi's once-quiet, tree lined boulevards and side streets into rivers of rubber and steel." According to the same article, there are nearly 4 million registered motorcycles and scooters in the city; add plain old human-powered bicycles and it "makes a Hells Angels gathering seem polite and orderly."</p><p>Photographer Debora Machado photographed the motoring multitude in February 2014.</p><p>Do you have your own compelling travel photos to share? Join the Yahoo! Travel Flickr group, or look us up on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. You can also download the Flickr app.</p><p><a href="http://travel.yahoo.com/blogs/compass/never-step-back--flickr-photo-of-the-day-200855704.html">Keep reading...</a></p>