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Would You Take Vietnam’s LONGEST Train Journey?



I took my longest train journey ever, a 43 hour adventure from the north of Vietnam to the south on a local train. For $40 a ticket it got you a small a bed with a pillow and blanket and nothing more, not even food was included. We had no idea what to expect but we were ready for the experience! Would you take Vietnam’s longest train?!

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49 Comments

  3. Metalface Mark

    i did two overnight trains in vietnam, they were quite fun other than the odd cockroach and my ex falling out with me for wanting to play cards with some other women in the carriage 🙂 This brought back a lot of memories.

  4. KBC Visuals

    Great video mate, suprised by the quality of the train, not surpised by your continued pursuit to make your suffering as terrible as posisble 35hrs is insane and you brang kat along for the suffering 😂

  5. cappaman73

    Good video….but seriously, you have a travel channel and don't know how to use chopsticks 😂

  7. Football shorts 2

    I,I,I,I,I……Ben it’s ‘WE’..…continuing to say ‘I’ makes you look and sound a bit privileged tbf…don’t be a dick mate

  10. THE TRAVELING MONKEY

    Love the videos bro..keep them coming. You know what your ok i dont care what bald says about you. 😂. Take care and safe travels.

  11. Anand Iyer

    How disrespectful of you. Why do you step on those bedding with your shoes on. That door did the justice to you I believe 😂

  17. Silverfox

    I was just thinking as you sat in the food car, how funny it would be if Bald just walked through the shot, but never acknowledged You or Kat and was not mentioned at all. I do love a good Capsule hotel.

  19. Mr ABroad

    I have tried sleeper trains in Vietnam, but not 35 hours. Trains in Vietnam are comfortable enough to have this long trips I think. Nice adventure man.

  20. loveaodai100

    Actually that sleeper car was pretty nice but the more one is sealed off the less the adventure. My first train trip in Vietnam was back in 1990. In those days everything was simple with wide open windows. Vendors would come on the train with various items and get off at the next stop for the return. One the trip up to Nha Trang a blind girl of about 20 years of age came on board to sing classical songs for the hope of some charity. Coincidentally we were aware that a group of British doctors were doing free cataract surgery on the day we were to arrive. So my wife and I asked her if she would like to go all the way to Nha Trang which was about five hours away. She agreed and we got her a room for the night. We brought her in for examination the following morning. Regrettably… her corneas were too damaged for repair but we all felt some adventure not likely possible these days. I am from NYC and my wife from Saigon. We moved to Vietnam in 1995 and remain to this day.

  21. ah lau

    How about some vlogs in Singapore Ben. Would love to see you and kat here

  25. Tim Summers

    Let's talk about public bathrooms and toilet bowls. My #1 rule is I do NOT sit on a public toilet no matter how clean someone may argue it is. I recommend you do the same. Squat without touching your bums on the toilet 100% of the time. No exceptions! The #2 rule is to ALWAYS pack wet wipes (aka baby wipes, dude wipes, or whatever the heck you want to call them). They will leave a fresh sensation at times you can't shower afterward. I recommend you carry them as well.

  28. Ron Johnson

    Do you carry toilet paper? Those trains never seem to have any. How did it work for you in Mexico where they throw the dirty paper in the trash can, lol

  29. david nguyen

    Yo Ben I watched all your Vietnam series looks like you had a shitty time in Vietnam so why the hell did you come back?

  32. L Van Damme

    I love the adventures with the both of you.
    You guys are funny together and Kat is always smiling having fun 😃👍

  34. Greg Richards

    Blimey,you two are light weights! I just did tha 34 hour journey from Saigon to Hanoi 3 weeks ago. It was comfortable and cleanish, compared to nightmare Indian railroads 30 years ago.The food was ok as well .

  37. Ian from Kent

    This is great, I've just spent a week on a 4* cruise ship and I come home to a video about 43 hours on a train and a night in a capsule hotel. A return to the harsher reality of life. The capsule looks OK, but of course no ensuite bathroom etc. What are the facilities like, other than a place to sleep?

  43. Sid

    If you really wanna try we (India) have 72 hr of train so 😂😂 at your own risk

  44. Alternative Visuals

    She's a hippycat. I looked at the comments first before I asked the stupid question. Aaawww sharing a cube at the end. So I get the impression Cat did that on purpose? 🙂

  45. Michael Anthony

    I did the same journey in 2008, It was wonderful. There was a macdonalds style restaurant outside Hanoi station, I stocked up there.

  47. Thể Thao và Tổ Quốc

    As long as Vietnam is still ruled by the oppressive and exploitive Communist regime, her potential remains greatly diminished. For any 1% that wants to stay, 99% of the population wants to get out, and many have risked their lives doing just that (for example, 39 doomed lives found in UK container truck recently on the news, and that's only what's been reported), unfortunately. Yet another shocking and also recent example is that during the Covid pandemic when almost all countries assisted their citizens with financial aids in one form or another, the corrupt and murderous Vietnamese Commie regime saw it just as another opportunity not to help but to exploit its ruled citizens even more, essentially making money over the corpses of its citizens by presumably killing at least 30-50K of them, due to grossly misdiagnoses and being thrown into barbwired unhygenic living quarters for isolation, so that they had to sleep on concrete floor, even next to filled trashcans, with inadequate toilet, food, water, or medicine, like animals (searching hard enough, one is able to see shocking video clips on Facebook though the regime tried hard to crack down the leaks by Vietnamese citizen journalists), with the fake nostril Covid test kits, mislabeled as approved by World Health Organization (WHO) in Việt Á scandal, colluded by at least 4 different government agencies (Y Tế , Khoa Học, Công Nghệ, Quân y) and the top Politburo members, including Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Phạm Minh Chính, Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. Murderous Vietnamese Commie regime even had a thug murdered Christian pastor Giuse Trần Ngọc Thanh, like it has done with many other pastors across the nation. There is a reason why the current Commie Vietnam ranks at the bottom of the world in freedom of speech, (true) freedom of religion, and freedom of the press, barely above Commie China and Commie North Korea. There is no true freedom of religion in Commie Vietnam, as this corrupt Vietnamese Commie regime only authorized the fake organizations headed by Commie monks, many of whom were Commie Party officials, and those religious organizations not approved to be infiltrated by them or headed by their Commie agents are accused of malicious and nonexistent crimes and banned, with innocent religious leaders arrested and jailed, as in the recent case with Thiền Am Bên Bờ Vũ Trụ, a harmless Buddhist meditation monastery, for simply having many followers (hence, more influences that the regime fears it can't control) than the Commie Party's officially approved ones. Similarly, its passport ranks at the bottom, 89th out of 111 countries for a reason, barely above North Korea 104th rank. even below many African nations. For comparison, South Korea is at 2nd rank. That's what Republic of South Vietnam would have likely been ranked among at least the top 10 had it not been invaded and occupied by the North Vietnamese Commie terrorists, aided by Commie Soviet and Commie China. Search "cuop dat dan" (meaning "land-robbing of citizens") to see millions of footages across the country from North to South, spanning for decades, dated back to Ho Chi Minh's bloody land reform 1953-1956 that killed nearly 1 million North Vietnamese in only 4 years, or 250K people brutally slaughtered in torturous painful deaths (like being shot, stabbed, mutilated while being alive, or heads being plowed over by water buffaloes while bodies being buried underground) each year on average to rob their lands and homes. Even today, if the rightful owners refuse to have their homes or lands robbed, the ruthless Vietnamese Commie terrorist regime simply jail or massacre them, have tractors run over their bodies or openly assassinate them in their own homes. When it comes to robbing, these barbarian Vietnamese Commie bandits even prey on each other, just as the recent case with then 84-year-old Mr. Lê Đình Kình, a 55-year-Commie Party veteran from Dong Tam, near Hanoi, that got shot dead at 3am in his own home by the Vietnamese Commie terrorist regime. When his wife Mrs. Dư Thị Thành refused to lie about the incident as ordered, the Vietnamese Commie terrorist police brutally tortured her (see more details from "dandongtam" on Facebook). The corrupt Vietnamese Commie government officials routinely dine on lavish gold-plated Salt Bae steak $100K per meal with blood money not just from taxpayers but also from robbed-lands and robbed homes recently drew international condemnations, while many Vietnamese citizens, including elderlies in their 60's and 70's as well as kids as young as 6's to 16's selling lottery tickets on the streets to survive on $2-3 per day. Even Phạm Nhật Vượng the richest man in Vietnam (via his VinGroup) made the bulk of his wealth mainly by colluding with the barbarian Vietnamese Commie regime in selling their robbed-lands from Vietnamese citizens. Travelers to Vietnam in her current form (not at all like this before the Communists took over) should keep this in mind. Behind the beauty of the land and smiling faces at popular tourist destinations, there are a lot of darkness and tears, bloods, sweats, sorrow, horror, and sufferings all over the country.

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