Would You Take Vietnam's LONGEST Train Journey?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- 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.
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 two are such a great couple 😃
Kat has the best attitude. She’s adorable ☺️
Cat is a gem. She makes your videos come alive with her fantastic energy.
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
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
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⭐️
I did the same journey in 2008, It was wonderful. There was a macdonalds style restaurant outside Hanoi station, I stocked up there.
Another great video Ben.. hope you and Kat made the most of the capsule 😉
Don't come a knocking when the capsules a rocking!
Love the Ben and Kat vlogs 🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
😬🤝
@@BackpackerBen Ben what’s your take on the Israel and Gaza war
Just admit she’s your girlfriend already…
Kat you look like a hippie from the seventies. love it 🥰
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!
Your Tanzanian train ride from hell is what brought me to your channel a few days ago. Such a hoot
Best video ever!
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
Kat is a moral booster during your trips
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.
Is Cat this sweet off camera as well? What a keeper!
She's adorable!!
You traveled to Vietnam with Bald, Tim K, and now again with this cute lady. Definitely you have a thing for Vietnam.
Great vid.
Kat and Ben videos are the best videos. ❤
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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
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
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
This channel could be called "Have Kat, Will Travel."
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.
Congratulations on the bird mate 💪🏻
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 😆
Love Kats energy!
Wish you both safe travels. Any chance you can show a map when traveling long distances? Love your videos
Thats a long ass train journey you guys have some patience and then some
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
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
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
WOW brutal 43hr journey 😮 Hey Kat 👋 🏴
16:20 Looks like Cat was waiting to get with you on the same bed 😂
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.
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! 😅
You look nice with bandana Kat! Love you!
She said thank you 😬
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!
Super cool video, I enjoyed it. I hope one day I get to travel around like you guys do. I've been coast to coast in America by hitch hiking, seen some pretty amazing shit.
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
Love your content especially when cat joins you
Appreciated 😎🤝
Cool video ! Thanks ❤
Thanks for watching 🤝
Thanks for watching 🤝
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
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
Love these videos your train journeys are good content
Glad you like them!
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 🤝
Give that woman a ring, for the love of God.
Congratulations finally a video without slating off India 🇮🇳 in some context or other
Lol when do I ever mention india
@@BackpackerBenthe bus journey
That capsule bed looked like paradise by comparison. Enjoy. 👍🏼
Damn cold in there though like a closed fridge
@@BackpackerBenNot too cold I hope. 😉
If Kat. Ever dumps you..I will Love her & Take care of her.....awesome human
You both survived this long train ride.
Thanks for another great video! You had me lmao a few times! Cheers!
Kat is bewitching 👍 😊😊
When you say "absolute bargain!" I wonder if you're being sarcastic lol
Was like 30p so yes was serious 😬
KAT SHOULD BECOME A FULL MEMBER OF THIS CHANNEL FOR THAT SACRIFICE..LOL
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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 UA-cam it's been a blast.
You love train trips , that's very clear
Fantastic content as always Ben....Ah Ha!
Legend! ;)
imagine spending 40 hours in a train just to arrive and sleep in a capsule. LMAOOOOOOOO. 20 dolllaridoo could have get you a decent room near downtown hcmc.
Content init
So good - keep it going and have fun!
When the door slammed on your finger I literally jumped
Hurt like hell believe me then was bleeding 😆 see the plaster on my finger
@@BackpackerBen I wish you a speedy recovery sir 🫡
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
43 hours on a sleeper and then books a capsule LOL... only on Ben's channel
My suffering brings you guys joy then I’ll do it 🫡
Blame it on Cat, apparently she wanted some snuggly time with Ben 😂
I was watching your Tanzania train trip and this one after, it's night and day.
Alls well that ends well. Something wholesome about this video.
I seriously want to visit the 'Nam, ever since I saw Top Gear on their stupid motorbikes there fifteen years ago.
Kat is beautiful that smile wow
No way i would travel on a train that long hours..🤢🤮 . Respect to u Ben and Kat!🙌
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.
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!😎🚀
We stayed in a spaceship pod too in Bangkok in June. Exactly the same.
Great video. Mind your fingers n give kat her eye brows back.think u picked up the wrong g ones half sac.
My favorite part was when you helped the rickshaw driver at the Peruvian border and he gave you the cold shoulder right after ruining your shoes lol
😆😆 guy was a savage
Love theese lond distance journeys amazing
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I love the adventures with the both of you.
You guys are funny together and Kat is always smiling having fun 😃👍
Good content Ben. Cheers
You got it mate!
An Absolute Grueller of a trip Ben .... But at least the company with Kat is Good eh!
Yep. Keep Kat Ben. It gives a Ying/Yang experience for the viewers. Well done.
43 hours on a train🤯. Amazing and interesting video as always. 👋
Glad you enjoyed😜
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
the wild one. eating just rice OMG
Nobody ever says Xin chào in Vietnam’s. It’s just Chào. Chào em, Chào anh, Chào bo, Chào ba, etc. depends on the situation.
Noted Alex
i was on the train from Hanoi to Hue for 10 hours in 2018 and afterwards I swore I would never do it again 😂
Horrendous mate
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
Awesome, loved it 👌👌👌👌
Thank you! Cheers!
Fantastic work and content again safe travels both of you .
Many thanks!
Guarantee that was a 2 way mirror in that Saigon capsule
Hope not 👀
katt, tip fur ben, dont touch the weiner in your shorts when talking to your new roomiez. funny to see that. enjoy our travels together. im here, and doing it with you all from canada.
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.
You & Kat are lovely people 😊.
You missed so many great stops Ben, you could have stopped a day & still made it on time on bus or motorbike
Been all over Vietnam twice before
Need a new adventure and it’s coming next
That blue light is definitely to help with cleaning the capsule.
It must be annoying to be sick when traveling abroad, because of the language barrier and the cost of medical... 🤔
Usually very cheap
Welcome back to Vietnam bro i am situated in Hai phong city
Good one mate. I love Vietnam and their food :-)