Dangers of Sleeper bus travel in Vietnam

DirtyPierre wrote:

Many backpackers travel by sleeper bus in Vietnam because it is cheap and saves them accommodation costs.
I prefer to call them coffins on wheels.

Totally agree with you on that comment, mate.  By coffins on wheels, I mean for the people riding in the buses as well as for the people riding motorbikes outside the buses.

I'm not really a fan of any buses since there's some unwritten LAW that says bus drivers must drive at 2x the speed limit MINIMUM, never sleep, take over the entire road while driving and run over every motorbike they see.

I've considered building an egg launcher so I can egg the next bus that runs me off the road.  Happened to me twice already.

But thanks for the heads up on sleeper buses.  I would recommend the train as a safer alternative if you're a backpacker exploring the country; they do have sleeper cars.  Train engineers aren't pressured to rush to their destination or stop every 10 meters to pick up a fare.  (A little sarcasm in my measurements).

Agree with you. Not only that....when travelling by boat i feel not safe also. So how we do now? At home all the time? Never travel?

Maybe we have fate, if we are not lucky, even we are at home, we still have accident. So just enjoy life..dont worry a lot.... But many times my heart almost fall down bcz on the crazy bus or boats

Yuli

Don't know if Phuong Trang (Futa) has sleeper buses or not, but their regular buses are OK with me, and they certainly don't speed. I recommend them for any reasonable-length trip through Vietnam.

saigonmonkey wrote:

Don't know if Phuong Trang (Futa) has sleeper buses or not, but their regular buses are OK with me, and they certainly don't speed. I recommend them for any reasonable-length trip through Vietnam.

Phuong Trang has sleeper buses.

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Last time I drove up Highway 1 near Phan Thiet, I saw a bus overtake 5 other vehicles whilst going through a small town, total maniacs.

does any one know how to show a photo on here so as all can see ? its a bus buster

mark stutley wrote:

does any one know how to show a photo on here so as all can see ? its a bus buster

Yes.  If your photo is already on the web/Internet you just let this browser point to the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) where the picture physically resides on a computer server.  Kind of like how your put photos on your local computer under the C drive, i.e. C:\Users\mark\Pictures\busbuster.jpg.

To do that you first go to that picture (google works if you just need a generic photo) and right click, then "copy image URL".  Then on this forum when you "Post", there is an icon under the "Message" that says Image:  It's located to the left of the happy face emoticon.  You can click that and then paste your image URL into the pop-up.

Alternatively, you can just type in "[img]" paste the URL, then type in "[/img]".

So if the URL for the picture is "https://www.expat.com/yadi-yadi.jpg", then the code should be written as  
"(img)https://www.expat.com/yadi-yadi.jpg(/img)"   Replace the ( ) with [ ] because if I write it with the [ ], this program/post will execute it and show an error because the yadi-yadi.jpg image is an example that doesn't exist.

I ll have a go tommorrow thanks