Hi, I'm looking at entering China via Hekou and heading back to Vietnam that way after the end of my business trip. I may request my company to pick me up by car at the border, but if the expressway is finished then a bus wouldn't take that long anymore. It used to take up to 8 hours for the 400km journey due to a stretch of horrible road north of Mengzi, going past Kaiyuan to south of Shilin. I have heard that the expressway missing link may not be finished. If so, then bus travel times would probably be down to 6 hours or less. Does anyone know the latest? Oh and otherwise maybe it would make sense to catch a bus going along the Mengzi expressway to the train station there and catching a train to Kunming instead? Apparently it only takes 4 hours by train now. is there still only 1 train a day on that line?
