Vietnam

[jamoor]

Anyone here been to vietnam?

I am putting together some kind of itenerary for two weeks over there.

I am starting in Hanoi and making my way to Saigon, by train, anyone able to offer ideas on where to stop?

[havoc]

Look on p.2 - there's a whole thread about it!

[phumy]

Here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Herman Toothrot]

jamoor said:

Anyone here been to vietnam?

I am putting together some kind of itenerary for two weeks over there.

I am starting in Hanoi and making my way to Saigon, by train, anyone able to offer ideas on where to stop?

Ditch the train if you only have 2 weeks, very glad we flew it in two stages domestic flights are so cheap and easy it was £38 from Da Nang to Saigon for example and took 50 minutes + 50mins check in & 5 minutes baggage collection. The train wastes too much time, its something daft like 38hours Hanoi to Saigon. We met a girl in Hanoi who got the train from Saigon and she basically failed to sleep at all as she said the train just seemed full of mothers with screaming kids.

[jamoor]

Herman Toothrot said:

jamoor said:

Anyone here been to vietnam?

I am putting together some kind of itenerary for two weeks over there.

I am starting in Hanoi and making my way to Saigon, by train, anyone able to offer ideas on where to stop?

Ditch the train if you only have 2 weeks, very glad we flew it in two stages domestic flights are so cheap and easy it was £38 from Da Nang to Saigon for example and took 50 minutes + 50mins check in & 5 minutes baggage collection. The train wastes too much time, its something daft like 38hours Hanoi to Saigon. We met a girl in Hanoi who got the train from Saigon and she basically failed to sleep at all as she said the train just seemed full of mothers with screaming kids.

I was obviously thinking of doing it gradually, not in one hit, also does going for "first class" not get rid of the screaming kids scenario?

[phumy]

First class on the train in Vietnam means the matress on the sleeper is 1.5 inches thick instead of 1 inch LOL. First class = Cattle class then go down from there, really!!!

[XJSJohn]

phumy said:

First class on the train in Vietnam means the matress on the sleeper is 1.5 inches thick instead of 1 inch LOL. First class = Cattle class then go down from there, really!!!

And just don't ask what teh matress has been stuffed with either .....

[jamoor]

phumy said:

First class on the train in Vietnam means the matress on the sleeper is 1.5 inches thick instead of 1 inch LOL. First class = Cattle class then go down from there, really!!!

Hmm, interesting, I found the "first class" sleeper cabins in China to be very acceptable.