Saigon to Hanoi

The train left Saigon at 11 pm. The train will take about 30 hours to get to Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam. We will arrive around 6am.

Life on the train

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We had a cabin with 4 beds and a small table. The beds where very narrow and hard, but Tiril and Lars where very tired and fell a sleep right a way. The next morning we woke up at 6:30 am to sunshine and a  very talkative  group of  60 years old Australians. Outside we could start to see mountains, the train tracks run along the coast line, and at one point we where driving on the side of a mountain and had the ocean below us, spectacular view of the sunset!!!   
The train made a few longer stops along the way so we have time to run out and buy food and snacks. Here Ove and Lars is out shopping for French baguettes(which is sold every where here in Viet, after the French colonial time) and some drinks. The small shops is almost on the train tracks. Tiril and Lars spend the time playing Nintendo, Uno and looking out the window at all the water buffaloes, ducks and people working on the rice fields.

The lunch cart was very interesting and a bit scary, but we still tried some.  Rice and chicken!!! 

On the last night Lars fell out of bed twice, good thing we where able to convince him to sleep in the lower berth.