We arrived back in Hanoi with a few hours to kill before out 10pm train to Hue. I’m not going to lie, it was nice to have wifi again!
After freshening up and sorting our bags out, a few of us went for dinner at a restaurant called The Blue Butterfly before heading to the train station. It was lovely! Love Vietnamese food!
The sleeper train left Hanoi at 10pm and took around 13 hours to reach Hue. I’d never been on a sleeper train before and had heard horror stories about them. However, it’s also part of the travelling in Vietnam experience so I was keen to give it a go.
In my opinion, it wasn’t too bad. It was a bit rickety but that’s to be expected. Luckily, our carriages were the first class ones. Don’t expect anything too fancy by this! We had 4 people in our sleeper room (?) and there was a toilet for our carriage. This did get progressively worse as the journey wore on and it would be a good idea to have some toilet roll or tissues of your own towards the end of the journey!
It was relatively clean. We got a bottle of water and a bottle of coke. I actually managed to get a bit of sleep as well which was good. I was on the bottom bunk but apparently the top bunk can be either really hot or really cold. Just FYI!
Overall it wasn’t a terrible experience and I would do it again if travelling Vietnam. I’d have to have first class again though!
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