Hi,

I recently heared about a direct bus connection between Kunming and Hanoi. Can anyone confirm this? If true, where does this bus leave. If not, what is the best way to travel to Vietnam via land nowadays? I checked other posts, but they might be dated.

Thanks for your answer(s).

hey,just came back from vietnam! no direct bus to hanoi,unfortunately. you first have to take a bus to hekou (daily or sleeper bus 150rmb) then from hekou bus station a taxi to the border (10min).then go through immigration and walk across the bridge on the border to the vietnam side,the city of lao cai. from there you can either walk (20/30min cant remember exactly) or take a taxi to lao cai train station,where you can get a train to hanoi. there's one in the morning 09.50am vietnamese time (i highly recommend

getting soft seats if you take the one in.the morning,not the hard seat!)

train timetable from lao cai to hanoi
9.50
18.50
19.35
20.20
we were told it would have taken 8hrs,but it took us 11hrs both ways

Thanks for your answer! How long did it take you in total? I have to pick up someone at Hanoi Airport so it's important to know when i arrive.

I gathered that you went to Hekou/Lao Cai, slept over there and took the train to Hanoi the next day?

There is a new highway from LaoCai to Hanoi, should take just three hours by bus as i read in the news recently

not sure about the bus! you can catch one from lao cai to hanoi but when i was there it was still supposed to take more or less the same time as the train.
@jorrit i left kunming at 7 pm ( east bus station), arrived in hekou around 1/2 am, slept on the bus till 6 then crossed over to lao cai. took the 9.50 am train and got to hanoi around 9 pm. there's 1 hour time difference in vietnam!

ok, thanks again for the information. I guess I'll find out once i get there!

There is direct bus from kunming to hekou (the Chinese border). it s just 6 hours of trip. The price is 146 kuai and there are some busses during the dayand also at 19.00 so you can sleep on the bus ;) after when you enter in Vietnam (the first village is called Lao Cai) there is a direct train to Hanoi (but it's long trip, around 10 hours) and buses.

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