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Daily Bus Hanoi - Thanh Hoa to Sam Neua, Houaphanh Laos
From Vietnam
Head overland from Vietnam to The Last Frontier for the experience of a lifetime. You’ll venture through rarely viewed landscape and cross the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Hanoi/Thanh Hoa to Sam Neua, Houaphanh
Journey from the Vietnamese Capital to the home of the Lao Revolution at Vieng Xay’s Cave City in Houaphanh.
Bus
The key to the overland trip is Thanh Hoa and its West Bus Station, some 150 km south of Hanoi. Thanh Hoa has little to offer tourists except accommodation, a beach located 15 km away, and one daily bus to Sam Neua, the door to Viengxay Cave City. The small 25-seat bus with no air-con departs the station at 08:00 for the rugged 245-km, 12-hour scenic mountain drive.the bus waits at the Nam Soi-Na Meo border checkpoints until all passenger, mostly Lao or Vietnamese, have cleared
immigration.
A 12-hour daily bus service from the Thanh Hoa Bus Terminal to Sam Neua leaves at 08:00 on Tuesday to Saturday, but operation is often suspended. You can also hire a car in Hanoi for the journey, but expect to pay upwards of $300. However most travellers heading from Hanoi to Sam Neua travel via Thanh Hoa, as it’s a reliable bus crossroads and getting there is cheap and easy.
Train & Bus
Three Reunification Express Trains depart the Hanoi Railway Station for Thanh Hoa at 06:00, 09:00, and 19:30 for the 3.5-hour ride. A comfortable air-con berth “soft seat” Busses to Thanh Hoa depart Hanoi’s Giap Bat Bus Station every hour between 07:00 and 18:30 for the 4-hr, 175-km ride for $24, and make one bathroom stop. You can also find a car service for around $1200 that can gets you to Thanh Hoa in less than 3 hours, which is a good share option for groups wanting an early departure from Hanoi to catch the 08:00 bus.
Back Roads
Backpackers working their way on the back roads from Hanoi to the Nam Soi-Na Meo border checkpoint will find sawng taews waiting from 10:00–11:30 for the 80-km, drive to Sam Neua. Outside those hours, immigration officials can arrange a sawng taew to Sam Neua for about LAK800,000, regardless of the number of passengers, or take a thrilling ride on the back of a motorcycle for about LAK200,000.
Editor’s suggestion: Take the 09:00 train from Hanoi to Thanh Hoa, check in to a hotel, purchase your bus ticket for the next day’s 08:00 bus, and then relax before the exciting mountain ride to Laos. please double check all border crossing with your Embassies and Tourism departments prior to departure.