Nanning, Guangxi Province. 100km to Nam
July 5th 2008 27 hours to Nanning... the closest big city to Friendship Pass (the border crossing to Vietnam).
After shopping for food for our long journey, we hopped on board the semi-modern train in a hard sleeper car. Hard sleeper cars have about 20 rows of triple-decker bunk beds. We had to top bunks next to each other. The bottom bunk functions as a bench during the day. The squatter toilets empty out on
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