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Originally Posted by maccaoz
Vietnam will not recognise an International licence(available in Australia)...
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I think we have to be quite careful in this discussion to discriminate between an 'international licence' - whatever the heck that is - and an 'International Driving Permit (IDP)'.
An IDP is, essentially, a multilingual translation of a full driver licence issued by a country. By itself it confers no privileges or qualifications, it merely provides a translation of certain key bits of information that appear on your full driver licence. Both the underlying (original, full, home country) driver licence and the IDP need to be presented at the same time. The IDP by itself is nothing.
A full description of the IDP, including details about the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic that established the IDP and governs how it is issued, can be found on Wikipedia at International Driving Permit. I haven't read the actual document to see what countries have ratified that Convention, but it appears from the information provided at Wikipedia that Vietnam has ratified the Convention. Hence, an IDP accompanied by the original underlying licence should be accepted in Vietnam. Whether the local traffic cops know that or not is another question.
So, before further confusion develops, would the original posters (above) clarify if they are speaking about an IDP or not?
Michael
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