Would You Take Vietnam's LONGEST Train Journey?
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- čas přidán 16. 10. 2023
- 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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Kat is such a good traveler, we want more videos with her.
🤝 coming
Yeah, she's awesome. Love the Roma aesthetic she's rockin' in this video.
Spicy 🌶
@@MillaSofia-mo8xf why would he gets jealous if he is with her?! 😂😂😂 nonsense and petty you are coming the same subject in all his videos! Seems childish to me 😅
Yes, they're a cute couple. And it's something different from the endless amount of solo travellers on youtube.
Kat has the best attitude. She’s adorable ☺️
Ben, I hope you fully realize what you've found in Kat. She's rare, brother. Safe travels.
A top security
Much easier on the eyes than that Bald MFer you often travel with.
😂😂😂
You're not a sad chap but you seem happier when Kats around!
In saying that,so am I.
You two are such a great couple 😃
Up next a country that many of you have perhaps never heard of…any guesses where it can be? Stay tuned in a few days you’ll see me there 🚀
Are you going to see the sultan of Brunei Ben?
Myanmar or Bhutan maybe?
Laos 🤔
Bhutan?
Cambodia
Another really great video, Ben! I love your laid back attitude and subtle humor. Kat's a real sport and adds loads to the overall trip -- great chemistry between the two of you. I think I am enjoying your videos more than Mr. Bald's! I look forward to the next leg of your journey. Cheers from Richard in Reno
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mr Bald has lost his spark, needs to do more collabs with Baldr (Who also has lost his Spark) Simon Wilson or Ben (Who is are both on a roll). (Definitely not Tim K or that Johnny FD dude though!)
@@SilverfoxJB Johnny FD Is nothing more than a whinger 🤣
@@pierreverschueren8382 I can't stand him or Tim K
Cat is a gem. She makes your videos come alive with her fantastic energy.
Another great video Ben.. hope you and Kat made the most of the capsule 😉
Don't come a knocking when the capsules a rocking!
Kat is always happy
Kat's energy is excellent! Ofcourse everyone want's pics with her lol
Great video again Ben, really shows what the true experience is like. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@BackpackerBen Always! ... So far 😂
LOL so adorable when she shows you the capsule 😂 what a fantastic travel Duo
I did the same journey in 2008, It was wonderful. There was a macdonalds style restaurant outside Hanoi station, I stocked up there.
Brilliant Video as usual Ben mate great to to see you back on you’re Travels. And what a woman Kat is her smile is the best!
Absolutely⭐️
35 hours on a train is nothing. I spent 7 days on a train from Moscow to Beijing a couple of years ago... The longest train journey in the world. And 90% of the 7,000 mile line is just a single track railway, travelling through all of Russia, Mongolia and into China.
Ooh you're ard 💪
Kat you look like a hippie from the seventies. love it 🥰
Fantastic video! The previous train medley was a nice touch. As soon as I see a video title starting with "Would you..." I immediately think no and I didn't even see what it's about yet! Hahaha. I'm more of an adventure in a nice hotel. Maybe when I was younger, though! Thanks Ben and Kat!
😆 the dreaded would you
Thanks for your regular updates. Always very entertaining and informative. Greetings from Scotland
Thanks for watching!
沒想到歷經43小時的酷刑之後, 你們還是選擇繼續接受酷刑!
Unexpectedly, after 43 hours of torture, you still chose to continue to be tortured! 😂👌
P. S. When you come to my country, I will teach you how to use chopsticks correctly!
Torture is content for you guys 😅
@@BackpackerBen Thanks a lot for telling me, you are very nice!
That makes sense, thank you for your British humor, hahaha!
Is Cat this sweet off camera as well? What a keeper!
She's adorable!!
So good - keep it going and have fun!
Your Tanzanian train ride from hell is what brought me to your channel a few days ago. Such a hoot
Best video ever!
cat is looking great
Thanks for another great video! You had me lmao a few times! Cheers!
Even though a 40+ hour train ride may seem like it would be a daunting journey, Cat and Backpacker Ben make make great travel companions, and the trip goes fine. Can't wait until you two get out into Ho Chi Minh, this is really shaping up to be a fun adventure, thanks again for sharing !
Thanks man! No Vietnam vids though now. Next place up next
@@BackpackerBen anytime
Fantastic work and content again safe travels both of you .
Many thanks!
Great videos Ben love following you1
Awesome, thank you!
Great vid.
Been binging on Ben’s vids. The appalling diet pains me, puts me off doing any backpacking at 40! In my 20’s it didn’t bother me. Great vids though!
Yay more train videos Ben! I did Bangkok to chang Mai which was awesome and I'm planning to do Vietnam next year train from one end to the other... respect!
Sounds great!😎🚀
Wow! This trip was even better than the last one! It's always good when you bring Kat along.
The train ride was great and I liked the look of the hotel at the end - not the capsules coz I reckon they're too small, but the look of the hotel in general is sorta cool.
Great video Ben Kat enjoying each and every one keep safe looking forward to the next subscriber Australia ❤
Thanks so much! More to come matey
Love these videos your train journeys are good content
Glad you like them!
You traveled to Vietnam with Bald, Tim K, and now again with this cute lady. Definitely you have a thing for Vietnam.
These videos do not exactly give me the urge to get up and go travelling but its nice to experience some of it vicariously through the channel
😂 understandable
Cảm ơn - Thank you!
I like this alot. I do wish you'd show us some of the scenery out the window that you're riding by. The capsule hotel was cool - love the blue light - so relaxing.
Thanks for watching 🫡
I love the adventures with the both of you.
You guys are funny together and Kat is always smiling having fun 😃👍
That train looked better than the Glasgow to London and no mistake.
Also, chopstick protip - rest the bottom stick against your ring finger and do not move it, the other moves using your middle finger or wedged in the crack between your middle and index fingers with you thumb supporting it. But like all things, practice makes perfect.
Good content Ben. Cheers
You got it mate!
What happens in the capsule , stays in the capsule 😅 . Great vid as always Ben 👍🏽
Appreciate it pal
@ray
Oh don't worry... there's a camera behind that two way mirror... in every capsule!
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Keep these coming!!
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Looks like a fun trip. At least as fun as a sleeper train can be.
Well said Churchill
Ben, you make my hunger for traveling grow every time I watch your video. Nice to have Kat back and fully in this time.❤❤
Glad to hear it mate! Hope you see the world
@@BackpackerBen I hope so too. I've started traveling around my country seeing places I've only heard of or read about and making videos here on CZcams it's been a blast.
Spend new years eve on that train a few years ago, where I ended up drinking about 25 cans of beer with a couple of rough guys from northern Australia. No complaints though. The beer was good and the food did not make me sick.
my regular train journey as a child was a 54 hours train trip between my parents homes... the train was similar, though an older model (stylewise, maybe something between this & that which you saw in Ethiopia). it did not make as many stops, but, by memory, that line was smoother than at least the parts of the Vietnamese network I traveled on (north of Hanoi). one of the fun parts was that the train did not have onboard catering, but had some stops which were 30 or 40 minutes, so you could quickly run to the stations makeshift market and return with something tasty (traveling as often as I did, you got to know the seasonal & local specialties of each town, and look forward to how the diet changed from fish and pies to fruits and feta as you moved south)
this was before the time of the phone, so it was a place where I had read many books (for me, it would usually take a single journey to complete a standard sized short novel like Hound of Baskerville or later one of the first Harry Potters), other times, there would be a musician traveling in one of the berths, and everyone would gather around to hear him play... there were also storytellers and such, a whole culture to that kind of train travel.
My grandmother *(who hated flying) would visit her cousins in Uzbekistan from her place (one day north of Moscow)... the whole journey would take 5 nights and 4 days on one train, and then a short night on another.
Kat is a moral booster during your trips
i noticed you have some new tracky bottoms Ben! Traveldrobe getting a bit expansive now.. staedy on bro ;) keep up the good work
Flashing that cash with my £12 chinos from Thailand
I'm impressed how clean the loos are, they are cleaner than most UK train toilet loos!
Agreed. They were a state however shortly after we left
Love the Ben and Kat vlogs 🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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@@BackpackerBen Ben what’s your take on the Israel and Gaza war
That was brutal Ben 2 days in a sleeper train good thing you’re with Kat 😅 Looking forward to more videos Ben
More to come!🤝
this not even brutal, siberian is the true one.
WOW brutal 43hr journey 😮 Hey Kat 👋 🏴
Excellent video. You and Kat make a dynamic duo ! 😂
Fantastic content as always Ben....Ah Ha!
Legend! ;)
The trains have improved a lot since I last used the Hanoi to Ho Chi Min sleeper, the AC system was freezing and I was on the lower seat, they had no beds back then. At night I was woken up and told to leave my seat for some women I refused and after I started shouting they left me alone. This was in December so with the AC blowing out cold air it was bad until we passed the halfway mark then it warmed up.
Never book an hotel in Saigon there are plenty of hotels always look at the room first before booking in you'll get a better room and take plenty of $1 dollar bills, if you give them a $20 dollar bill for something that costs $2 you will get 18 $1 dollar bills back. I really liked Hanoi the people are so friendly while Saigon is a compleat rip off.
The last trip i made from North to South we aquired a motorbike in Hanoi and rode the entire distace to Saigon, Bunny from Singerpore left me after that journey but it was her idea to ride that distance, I did warn her.
Kat and Ben videos are the best videos. ❤
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Awesome, loved it 👌👌👌👌
Thank you! Cheers!
Ben, thanks for picking up a new shirt, I should have said something last
Video !! Please hold on to that beautiful lady with a great sense of adventure.
It began to rot that shirt 😆
Congratulations on the bird mate 💪🏻
Great video, that capsule hotel looked amazing. Hope to do that one day as well
Ain’t all that 😆 annoying rules and everyone around you
Thats a long ass train journey you guys have some patience and then some
Love Kats energy!
Cool video ! Thanks ❤
Thanks for watching 🤝
Thanks for watching 🤝
Wish you both safe travels. Any chance you can show a map when traveling long distances? Love your videos
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 😂
Had to bring her for the torture 🤝
This channel could be called "Have Kat, Will Travel."
Im not sure... but i think Ben enjoyed Vietnam much more better this time around... with Kat K's company over Tim K's company.
We need more of Kat's infectious smile and positive attitude in future vids!
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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.
Good one mate. I love Vietnam and their food :-)
The bumpy African trains were my fav, but these train videos are fun too. I just mostly like to see you suffer lol Very funny😅
Cheers! 😅
Looking forward to this one ❤
Hope you like it!👏🏼
Love the no nonsense approach 👍
The train looks not so bad 🤔That surprised me 👍Good job mate 👏Thanks for sharing and stay safe guys 🤗😁🤣✌
Many thanks 😬
To be fair, it looks a lot better than I was expecting when I first saw this in my feed. I'd definitely give it a whirl for the experience.
Good luck 🤞🏼
You're spoilt. Try a 3 day train from Kerala in the South of India, to the North. Love your travels with Kat@@BackpackerBen
Looks fun mate just chill out for 43 hours ahah least you had a nice bed to lie on
My lovely shelf bed
@@BackpackerBen Least you weren't sardine canned on a windy road. Imagine that for 40 hours nahhhh
Yep. Keep Kat Ben. It gives a Ying/Yang experience for the viewers. Well done.
Love your content especially when cat joins you
Appreciated 😎🤝
You both survived this long train ride.
Love theese lond distance journeys amazing
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Great video! Im shocked at how amazing the train looks! I dont think I ever got any trains in Vietnam when I was there and just did overnight buses. Im currently in India and cannot believe the difference between the standard of the trains!😂
Ah man those Indian trains give me PTSD. Good luck to you 🫡😂
@@BackpackerBen So proud of Ben 11 minutes in and has not said SPEAK ENGLISH , carry on and enjoy.
India a dump
That's insane Benjamin,I can't imagine Mr Bald sitting on the Train Roof for 43 hours 😅
He would probs do that
@@BackpackerBen you're right, he's insane in the membrane!
I've done that train journey. If you buy the right ticket you can get on and off as many times as you like.
Call that a long train journey? Try taking the Trans-Siberian "express" from London to Yokohama, which I did there and back in 1970. Takes two weeks, but you can fly the middle section which cuts the journey down to one week. Luxury!
Jack, the Japan Alps Brit
I've taken it from Hanoi to Nha Trang a few times. The best is the scenery and the people you meet but yeah, it's definitely not comfortable.
I think you have missed the best part of the most interesting country I have ever traveled in.
Rowing through caves. Seeing everything in Hue. Going to all the caves in Phong Na. And relaxing in Hoi An. That just gets you into the south. You didn’t even see the waterfall on the Chinese Vietnamese border.
Did all that before 😬
just finished the video. Glad to see you upgraded your t-shirt selection!..just kidding. Cool video guys!...nice job smashing your finger man! OUCH!
You love train trips , that's very clear
That capsule bed looked like paradise by comparison. Enjoy. 👍🏼
Damn cold in there though like a closed fridge
@@BackpackerBenNot too cold I hope. 😉
Alls well that ends well. Something wholesome about this video.
Great Video. The Train doesn't seem too bad tbh . Very clean ..... hope more videos soon. ? I can't believe you don't know how to use chopsticks by now 😮🤪
More to come! Many more 👏🏼
43 hours on a train🤯. Amazing and interesting video as always. 👋
Glad you enjoyed😜
16:20 Looks like Cat was waiting to get with you on the same bed 😂
Trains are a must for backpacker ben 😂😂
Smellier the better
I don't how you do it, but no way I could share a small compartment with 2 or 3 other strangers on a train. All it takes is one of those strangers to snore like a chainsaw cutting logs and let's face it, everybody has to fart. So count me out and more power to you and Kat.
😆 trust me there was loud noises
I had the same experience on a Viet sleeper train, the fella below me was just watching Chinese action movies full blast well into the wee hours of the morning , interspersed with him violently clearing his throat
Looool the throat clearing is constant out here. Horrendous noise
I was watching your Tanzania train trip and this one after, it's night and day.
We stayed in a spaceship pod too in Bangkok in June. Exactly the same.
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 .
Absolutely love your videos ben much love and support from Australia 🇦🇺 PS When are you going to meet up with Bald? 😊
Thanks mate! Not sure with Bald 👩🦲
An Absolute Grueller of a trip Ben .... But at least the company with Kat is Good eh!
6:35 Blimey Ben same t-shirt you wore
Kat representing with the Colorado hoodie 🙏🏼
You look nice with bandana Kat! Love you!
She said thank you 😬