Perspective: Overnight trains in Vietnam are the perfect amount of adventure and a way to see the country through a different lens.
— so I didn’t have to rifle through my bigger bags and could keep those stored out of the way under my bunk.What I didn’t end up needing was the emergency banh mi, crackers and package of cookies I packed. You’ll never go hungry on the Reunification Express, as the food and drink carts come by often. On the Lotus Express, they gave us a snack bag with some bread, yogurt, a banana and juice.
It took awhile to warm up to the intimate arrangement in the berth; Dac and I were sitting a couple feet apart with nowhere else to go but the bathroom or to walk the cars. There was no dining car or seating areas on the train, just the cabins of bunks or of assigned seats. On the shorter Lotus Express ride, I had much less bonding with my roommates, despite having the same cabin configuration. I spent most of the ride with just one foreigner who never spoke enough to catch what nationality; just a grunt when I mentioned it was time to get off the train.
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