Reunification Express - June 18

We had heard alot about the train that runs all the way from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh and decided that we wanted to explore this cultural experience. Here is the advise I found on the internet that I would give to anyone who ever thought about doing this 1) Bring your own TP, sleeping sheet, pillow, purell, food, and lots of water, and butt gaskets (for the toilet). 2) It's not clean or romantic, it's dirty dirty dirty, and is clearly very very old. 3) I have been told that it's considered 'rude' to book a 4-person cabin for just two people, but if we had to do over, that is precisely what we would have done. Other cultures don't necessarily have the same 'bubbles' that we do, and in many cars two or three people shared a bunk making a cabin meant for 4 turn into a cabin for 10. We shared our four person cabin with three other people, and clearly, other cultures don't have the same rules on what is considered to be rude when people are trying to sleep. 4) If you have heard rumors about them playing obnoxious war-era music over the loud speakers...it's all true. Now here is the MOST amazing part. The views of the Vietnam country side from our train car made every single bad thing we had to put up with completely worthwhile. Their countryside really is just that beautiful...it was breathtaking. And since we knew it was going to be dirty before we got there, we were prepared. No pictures this time, Sean and I have come down with a bug.