Trains, Planes and Automobiles ….and cyclos, motorbikes, bicycles, walking, boats, ships, buses, I have used about every means of transportation in Vietnam. I have even used those big beat up looking old buses with carts of pigs, bicycles etc on top. They are the cheapest and in my opinion not bad at all. I rode one from Ha 'Tien to Can tho for 53000 dong, about $3.30 cents. This was my first experience on a train in Vietnam. The trip from Saigon to Hanoi is billed as three days and two nights but actually you leave late in the evening, spend two nights on the train and arrive in Hanoi early the third day. It is more like two nights and one day. It cost me 65 dollars for the trip. I guess I could have
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