Train Hanoi - Beijing

There is a safe, comfortable & affordable twice-weekly train service between Beijing & Hanoi.  A Chinese express train with modern air-conditioned 4-berth soft class sleepers and restaurant car runs from Beijing to Dong Dang on the Vietnamese frontier.  At Dong Dang you pass through customs & passport control and board a connecting Vietnamese metre-gauge train for the final run to Hanoi.  Note that at Nanning you may be asked to get off and wait on the platform for an hour or two while the train is shunted.