Hanoi and Halong Bay
May 9th 2011 The sleeper train to Hanoi was, by all relevant standards, a remarkably comfortable affair with the train not stopping too many times during the night. Even better, for the first time, everyone was in our carriage by the time we set off so they didn't wake us up in the night, until 4:00 am when we had to get off the train.
A short, if slightly dubious taxi ride later (dodgy meter), and we
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