overnight train to lao cai

inside the train cabin...guess the picture makes it look nicer than it was haha...

the hanoi train station was really packed with locals and tourists alike...was abit lost of where we were supposed to go...when it was time to board the train, we were rejected at the gate as we supposely do not have the small white ticket stubs...but we weren't given them in the first place!!!...what we got was just these big colorful tickets which have proven weren't enough for us to enter...then this guy came up to us and told us that there was a mistake yesterday when we bought the tickets as that lady forgot to pass us the small ticket stubs as well...and he was here to give us that...a sigh of relief...so he led us thru the gate and kindly all the way to our soft-sleeper cabin...was a rather small room with 4 beds, and already we are debating who will sleep on top...surely me as a guy will do the favour of climbing up and sleep on top i guess...but when a young vietnamese lady walked into the cabin to occupy the last top bed...i figured i felt rather funny having to face her when i sleep, so i changed with myyher who later will be glad to have slept on top with the air-con blowing directly while me and dawn was abit stuffy and warm at the bottom...