China has blocked blogger, while the communist Vietnam is very open mined to Facebook and Blogger. When talking about this to Vietnamnese, I can see proud from their faces.
Ok let's get to the point. From Guangzhou to Vietnam, you have to go to Naning first.
Guangzhou- Nanning Slow train takes 12hours trains for Nanning station
High speed rail 4hours. Trains for Naning Dong(east) Sation. There are few
High speed Trains for Nanning Station too, but very few.
Tickets can be purchase on www.12306.com or download apps for ur mobile, apps search keywords:12306
When arrived Nanning, take the international train from Nanning station to Hanoi. from Nanning dong(east ) station to Nanning station takes about 40mins by taxi cost about 50 Yuan. Also have bus service, but I have forgot the route number. Just Check on the station.
Nanning Dong (east) station --- 南宁东火车站
Nanning station --- 南宁火车站
Hi, do you know which bus go to the Nanning Station.? ---您好，请问坐多少号公交到南宁火车站？
Just show the Chinese sentence to people on the bus station.
Tickets for Ha Noi can be purchase at the train station or purchase on Taobao.com
Fare: 218 CNY soft sleeper.
Only one train on service everyday. Departs at 18:30 and arrives at 05:30 Ha Noi local time.
The train staff will wake you up at about mid night, then let you take all of your belongings for the borader control. That is the Chinese custom. Then take your things back to the train, and it moved about 30mins, you will be asked to take everythings out and pass the Vietnamnese custom. Which will cost you about 40mins. You can exchange currency here, where many people think has best rate in Vietnam. it seems they only trade US dollar and Chinese Yuan.
How is Ha Noi looks like? I think it is very similar to the old town of Guangzhou, which is not interested to me at all. So I only spent one night and leave for Phu Quoc Island.
I got scammed by taxi drivers in Ha Noi, they always found new ways to scam people. It is very disappointing. I have just arrived then got scammed twice?! Although that was just worth about 20 dollars but I Really got bad feelings about this, and I don't want others to experience this again. so I reported to the airport police. What makes me feeling better was the policemen were very nice, and patiently helped me, treat me like a guest. While the Guangzhou policeman always treat everyone like a suspect. But very few taxi scams in Guangzhou, as you people use mobile apps to book and pay , fare calculation is controlled a third party.
