freenote
backpacker
Posts: 11

#1 Posted: 30/6/2007 - 23:31


I have heard conflicting reports on the possibility of a train going from Hanoi up to Kunming in china and also is it possible to obtain a Chinese visa in Hanoi.has anyone on this board taken this rout or know anything about it .

Discombobulated
longtail driver
Posts: 9

#2 Posted: 16/7/2007 - 14:02


Freenote,

as of Nov-Dec last year the rail line from Lao Cai (Vietnam - China) border to Kunming wasn't open. This may have changed since.

The line was completely destroyed in a number of places by flooding a couple of years ago and the Chinese hadn't gotten around to repairing it yet.

I may be wrong but I think you would need to take a bus from Lao Cai to Kunming.

Check out this site. Great information on train travel in Asia (and everywhere else actually)

www.seat61.com/Vietnam

freenote
backpacker
Posts: 11

#3 Posted: 16/7/2007 - 14:29


Thanks Discombobulated (nice name )It apears you are quite correct and the line is washed out ,with no sign of repair .So , it will have to be a train to Lao Cai ,cross border and bus to kunming ;-)