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| | How to buy train tickets in Vietnam | |  All trains require a seat or berth reservation, so you need a separate ticket/reservation for each individual train journey you make. If you want to travel from Saigon to Hanoi (or vice versa) stopping off on the way, this is not a problem, but you will need to book it as a series of separate journeys, with a separate ticket for each leg. You cannot buy an open ticket and hop on and off trains without a reservation. | |
| | International trains to / from Vietnam: Hanoi - Beijing (China) trains; Hanoi - Hongkong; Hanoi - Kunming | |  There is a safe and comfortable twice-weekly train service between Beijing & Hanoi. A Chinese express train with 4-berth soft class sleepers and restaurant car runs from Beijing to Dong Dang on the Vietnamese frontier (you might need to get off and wait on the platform for an hour or two at Nanning while the train is shunted). At Dong Dang you pass through customs and passport control and board a connecting Vietnamese metre-gauge train for the final run to Hanoi... | |
| | Ha Noi - Lao Cai (Sapa) Victoria 5-star express train | |  The Victoria Express offer more comfortable air-conditioned soft sleepers. The train offer is at its best in terms of comfort and services from Hanoi to Lao Cai and vice versa. The Victoria Express train offers two luxury sleeping carriages, one restaurant connected to the train, all with air-conditioning. Due to the increasing popularity of this alternative, they offer tickets to those staying at Victoria Sapa hotel only | |
| | About Vietnam railway network - Brief introduce | |  With a total length of 2600 km, Vietnam Railways network connects residential area to cultural, agricultural and industrial center, except the Mekong river delta area. Vietnam Railways is using 3 kinds of gauge, namely 1000 mm-gauge, 1435 mm-gauge (standard gauge) as well as 1435 mm and 1000 mm-gauge (mixed gauge).... | |
| | 5-star express train: Ho Chi Minh city - Mui Ne beach - Nha Trang beach | |  On 16 th December, 2006 - 5 STAR TRAVEL TRAIN have opened for public use, this success marked an important step forward of railroad branch and tourism in Vietnam. The super luxury tourist train - 5 STAR TRAVEL TRAIN is the first train has high quality in Vietnam. Everyday, it transports between two Cities, Ho Chi Minh City the largest commercial center in Vietnam and Nha Trang beach City with blue sea and white sand poetically. | |
| | Ha Noi - Lao Cai (Sapa) trains: LC trains; SP trains; Tulico trains; Royal trains; Ratraco trains; Pumpkin trains; Livitrains trains... | |  The Hanoi - Laocai (Sapa) trains runs every evening, departing from Tran Quy Cap street (B station) at 9:30pm, arriving at Lao Cai the next morning around 6:00am. The return train departs Lao Cai at 18:45pm, arriving in Hanoi the following morning at 05:00am. Three run at night, and one makes a day trip. Hanoi - Lao cai train stop at valley Lao cai, just 40 km from Sapa, so to reach Sapa you need to travel more 1 hour and a half by a public bus or private car | |
| | Vietnam reunification express trains (Trains from North to South and vice versa) | |  The Vietnamese railways are an excellent, safe and comfortable way of getting around and seeing Vietnam at ground level. The main line links Hanoi, Hue, Danang, Nha Trang, and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)... The Reunification Express? Trains between Hanoi and Saigon are sometimes referred to as the 'Reunification Express' by guide books or tourist agencies. However, there are now many trains on this route and no single train officially carries this name. | |
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