The next stage of our journey was not the best decision we'd made. Instead of flying from Hanoi to Da Nang, we chose to take another overnight train, partly to see more of the countryside and partly because Chris didn't want to face another take off and landing. Our previous experience of night trains to and from Sapa had not been wonderful but Chris convinced me that this train would probably be more modern - unfortunately this was not the case! Sixteen hours in a grubby, noisy, uncomfortable sleeping compartment, sharing with a Vietnamese lady and an elderly Vietnamese man ( who bore a resemblance to Ho Chi Minh ) who was like a cat on a hot tin roof and wanted to leave the door open all night, was not the most relaxing journey! Anyway,
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