{"id":1059,"date":"2024-01-10T03:52:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T03:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2024-01-10T03:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T03:56:19","slug":"tues-9th-jan-hoi-an-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Tues 9th Jan – Hoi An -> Reunification Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Big train day today, boarding at 2pm and arriving the next day at 8am. Declan booked a two bed berth, so it was just the two of us, with a door that shuts to the carriage corridor. Very comfortable although you can still hear the sounds of people outside of the berth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Food drying on the footpaths is a nice quaint touch. I’m always worried about accidentally stepping on them though and getting in a lot of trouble. DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Coffee in Hoi An killing time before the shuttle to the train station. Definitely a living room with table and chairs. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where these workers (presumably) on break crouch bare footed on chairs, cigarettes in hand, gambling at 9am. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Declan makes some tough decisions about snacks at the Tourism Office in the train station before we leave. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our longest train trip (18 hours) from Hoi An to Saigon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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When the train goes through a level crossing, all of the bikes have to stop and wait. It is the only time I think they do. Although sometimes people are waiting between the boom gates, so I guess they got stuck? In the bigger cities you end up seeing hundreds of bikes stacked up waiting for you to go past and zoom back off. DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dinner served as the sun sets on rice paddies. The train attendant in our carriage appeared what couldn’t have been more than 10 minutes later and brusquely collected our plates, with more than half of our dinner remaining. I suppose we could have said we weren’t finished yet but she gestured with such force we were stunned into submission. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-summer-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}