@dolphin
From 9 to 12 minutes. We are making progress. Keep going.

Be bold go for a whole hour!

And I am not stalking you. I told you; you are like one of these attention seeking little dogs jumping around my legs and I keep tripping over.

Don't know why it might matter, in terms of the non-operating night train, but note that Sept. 2 is Viet Nam's National Day, celebrating the Viet Minh's establishment of the republic on this date in 1945.

This thread has gone "off the rails."

It now looks like all trains are cancelled from 27th Sept onwards, as are the trains to Mengzi.

What the what??

Does anybody know anything about buses?

I've seen a bunch of info about a night bus to Hekou, but the online schedule I can see for KM East station shows the last bus at 14:30.

Does anybody have any bus info? Help a Selly out.

Cancelled, or booked full by millions of Chinese going for holiday elsewhere than their families?

Cancelled.