Traffic Patterns in Da Nang

I posted the following to my IBM Corporate Service Corps blog:

New York City may style itself as 'the city that never sleeps" but having spent (over three days) waking hours at all hours of the clock, I think that Da Nang is the real "city that never sleeps", or at least "where the traffic never stops."

In the morning (let's start at 4am, when I woke up today), the traffic is pretty quiet. A moderate two car/motorbikes a minute and no honking. It is quiet enough that you can hear a deep, beautiful, mellow "gong" striking from somewhere not too far and the occassional dog barking (protesting the gong?). Around 4:30, the traffic starts to pick up but it still isn't heavy enough for horns to be required. At 5am, the horns start, but its really more of a warm-up honk from most drivers, not the real, in-your-face-6am to 8pm type of honking.
Horns are heaviest (so far at least) between 6am-8am and about 4pm-8pm. That isn't to say that they aren't there between 8 and 4, its just that they blend into the regular background noise of life.
Between 8pm-10pm the horns are getting one last shout before being put away. It may be the Da Nang equivalent of taking your dog out for one last walk before bed. That doesn't mean that people are going to bed, because the traffic is still noticeable until 11pm to almost midnight when it dies down to the soothing one-two passers-by a minute that lulls you into a gentle, tired sleep.