Auschwitz on wheels...

After my beautiful trip through Vietnam - Hanoi, Halong Bay and picturesque Sapa - I arrived at the China-Vietnam border in Lao Cai. It was early evening in late summer - a humid and sticky night. Thirty poor unsuspecting souls bound for Kunming were rounded up and led to their carriage. 10 hours to Kunming i thought... As a smelly sweat sodden man scrambled in to take birth next to me. And the man above cleared his throat. Spat, missing my bag by a Nat's proverbial and then reclining to light his cigarette. The Kunming sleeper the closest thing to hell on wheels.

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