29 hours on the 'hard sleeper' The train journey to the north was as we had hoped - the scenery rolled by, there was actual Vietnamese people in the carriages rather than westerners and there was a food trolley packed with yummy food. It might seem a strange itinerary to travel the entire length of a country just to make your way back down again but somewhere along the line we'd booked our slight out of Saigon as well as entering the Vietnam from Cambodia there...

Got a Hanoi Heeling! So after a pretty easy yet long train journey the entire length of the country we arrived in Hanoi at 5am! We were, as with all SE Asian cities, bombarded with an awful lot of people shouting "taxi". Being 5 in the morning, we jumped in a cab after telling the driver to take us directly to the hotel we had booked. Little did we know at this point that he had his meter on "warp speed foreigner rate" so for the 10 minute...