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| posted by Paps of Jura 249 days ago |
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Has anyone gone overland from China to Vietnam ?
How
Where
How long
etc etc
Juno your a sweaty travelling type.... where are you ?? Spunky I figure you might know too
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| posted by Lola 249 days ago |
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"How long"? Doesn't that kind of depend on where in China you start from?
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 249 days ago (edited 249 days ago) |
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I looked at this some time ago...
Hong Kong #9658; Hanoi:
There is no direct train service, but the best overland option is probably as follows, costing in total about $75 or £35 one-way. You cannot buy a through ticket, you generally buy tickets for each section of route as you go, although you might want to pre-book the Hong Kong-Guangzhou and Guangzhou-Nanning sections through Chinatripadvisor.com. If you have any more information (including fares) for travelling via this route, please e-mail me..!
Day 1, take a train from Hong Kong (Kowloon station) to Guangzhou (Dong station). There are a range of departures daily, including one leaving Kowloon at 12:15 and arriving Guangzhou Dong at 13:47. Fare about HK$190 (£13 or $25).
Take an overnight train from Guangzhou (main station) to Nanning, departing Guangzhou at 16:02 and arriving Nanning the next morning at 05:30. Soft and hard class sleepers available. Fare about 350 RMB (£24 or $44) in a soft sleeper, 255 RMB (£17 or $32) in a hard sleeper.
Day 2, take a morning train from Nanning to Pinxiang, leaving Nanning at 07:58 and arriving Pinxiang at 12:07. Fare about 17 RMB (£2 or $4).
Take a taxi from Pinxiang to the frontier at the Friendship Pass. This will cost about 80-100RMB. Allow 2 hours or so to pass through both Chinese and Vietnamese border formalities. Then take a taxi the next 3km into Dong Dang town. This taxi will cost around $3, payable in US Dollars.
There are several trains a day from Dong Dang to Hanoi. There are trains from Dong Dang at 06:00 (arriving Hanoi at 11:30) or at 13:35 (arriving Hanoi at 19:50). Frequent buses are also available. Dong Dang to Hanoi is 161 km (100 miles). Note: Please check Dong Dang - Hanoi train times locally, as these may have changed. fare about 36,000 dong (£2 or $4).
http://www.seat61.com/Vietnam.htm#International%20links%20from%20Vietnam
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| posted by Paps of Jura 249 days ago |
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Starting from the border of HK innit..
See Giant knew what I was talking bout binty
Cheers Giant
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| posted by Lola 249 days ago |
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Why didn't you just say so then? Not all of us are mind-readers like him with the knobbly club. 
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| posted by EmilyBronte 249 days ago |
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Paps, why would you want to spend 2.5 days of your holiday sitting on stinking, crappy, burp filled chinese trains?
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| posted by Lola 249 days ago |
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Another question I wasn't going to ask.
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| posted by puyi 249 days ago |
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paps I went by bus from wanchai to vientianne via nanning / friendship pass /hanoi .....bus left wanchai cts at 5 pm got to border changed bus for overnight to nanning got to nanning at 7am caught 8 am bus to town just near viet border then a taxi to border border closes at 5 pm) walked across and found a van going to hanoi was in hanoi at 7pm that night ....took 14 hours and only $200 hk dollars
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| posted by EmilyBronte 249 days ago |
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Originally posted by Lola
Another question I wasn't going to ask.
I can't help myself. It just comes out. Talking of holidays- have a great time!! Take a cardi!
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| posted by Lola 249 days ago |
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A cardi?? Surely you jest. My suitcase will be empty because I will be wearing all my clothes. 
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| posted by Paps of Jura 249 days ago |
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Originally posted by EmilyBronte
Paps, why would you want to spend 2.5 days of your holiday sitting on stinking, crappy, burp filled chinese trains?
It's not for me.. as if I would waste my days doing that s**t
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| posted by Lola 249 days ago |
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So who you hate that much that you'd send 'em off on this cross-border sh*thole run then?
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| posted by EmilyBronte 249 days ago |
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quote:
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A cardi?? Surely you jest. My suitcase will be empty because I will be wearing all my clothes.
Yay, more room to bring back all of the stuff you will buy.
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| posted by Paps of Jura 249 days ago |
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Oh just an old mate from Mud Island
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| posted by geraldo 249 days ago |
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Originally posted by puyi
paps I went by bus from wanchai to vientianne via nanning / friendship pass /hanoi .....bus left wanchai cts at 5 pm got to border changed bus for overnight to nanning got to nanning at 7am caught 8 am bus to town just near viet border then a taxi to border border closes at 5 pm) walked across and found a van going to hanoi was in hanoi at 7pm that night ....took 14 hours and only $200 hk dollars
count me in
and in Hanoi we rent a fatboy and drive all the way down to Saigon
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| posted by Paps of Jura 249 days ago |
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rent a fatboy.... I thought rent boys were supposed to be pretty, slim and firm ??? No ??
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 249 days ago |
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Originally posted by puyi
paps I went by bus from wanchai to vientianne via nanning / friendship pass /hanoi .....bus left wanchai cts at 5 pm got to border changed bus for overnight to nanning got to nanning at 7am caught 8 am bus to town just near viet border then a taxi to border border closes at 5 pm) walked across and found a van going to hanoi was in hanoi at 7pm that night ....took 14 hours and only $200 hk dollars
By my calculations that's 26 hours. Good going though.
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| posted by puyi 249 days ago (edited 249 days ago) |
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
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Originally posted by puyi
paps I went by bus from wanchai to vientianne via nanning / friendship pass /hanoi .....bus left wanchai cts at 5 pm got to border changed bus for overnight to nanning got to nanning at 7am caught 8 am bus to town just near viet border then a taxi to border border closes at 5 pm) walked across and found a van going to hanoi was in hanoi at 7pm that night ....took 14 hours and only $200 hk dollars
By my calculations that's 26 hours. Good going though.
was in vientianne on 2nd day by 5pm......2 reasons for doing trip ,one had ear infection so was unable to fly and 2nd reason the challenge.....worth it
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| posted by Juno Watt 249 days ago |
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Now then Paps, I did this trip last year, but you don't need to sit on buses and trains for the whole trip. You can stop off at nice places like Yangchun (karst scenery), Beihai (beaches and colonial streets), Ningming (river trips to see prehistoric paintings) and Detian (second largest transnational waterfalls in the world) before crossing the border to Vietnam. I took about two weeks over it.
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