

The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway or Sino-Vietnamese Railwa was a 855 km railway built by France during 1904-1910, connecting Haiphong,Vietnam with Kunming, Yunnan. Now the old railway is out of the use in Yunnan, the gorverment is building the New Yunnan-Vietnam Railway which is one part of the Trans-Asian Railway from Singapore to Vietnam and China. You will follow the Sino-Vietnamese Railway from Hanoi to Kunming. In Vietnam, You will visit the Halong Bay in Hanoi, and take the junk boat cruise in Ha Long Bay. After the cruise you will take the train from Hanoi to Laocai, that is one part of the Sino-Vietnamese Railway. Enter Yunnan from Hekou Border, and visit Kunming, the Stone Forest, Jianshui Anient Town, Mengzi County, Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces, Dali, Lijiang and Shangri-La. Finish the trip in Kunming, this trip will take you to experience different countries with exotic ethnic culture.
The Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was a 855 km railway built by France during 1904-1910, connecting Haiphong,Vietnam with Kunming, Yunnan. Now the old railway is out of the use in Yunnan, the gorverment is building the New Yunnan-Vietnam Railway which is one part of the Trans-Asian Railway from Singapore to Vietnam and China. You will visit Dali,Lijiang and Shangri-La in the western Yunnan first, then visit Kunming, the Stone Forest, Jianshui Anient Town, Mengzi County, Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces, and Hekou County along the Sino-Vietnamese Railway. You will enter Vietnam from Hekou Border. In Laocai, you will take the train to Hanoi, that is one part of the Sino-Vietnamese Railway. You will visit the Halong Bay in Hanoi, and take the junk boat cruise in Ha Long Bay. Finish the trip in Hanoi, this trip will take you to experience different countries with exotic ethnic culture.
This is about the overland tour around Grand Mekong River Region from Yunnan to Laos. You will visit Kunming,Shangri-La,Lijiang,Dali and Jinghong, then enter Laos from Mengla County in Xishuangbanna Prefecture. In laos, you will visit Mekong River, the sacred Pak Ou Buddha Caves, Luang Prabang Famous Waterfalls,the 4000 Islands area in Sii Phan Done, Vientiane,Xieng Khouane Buddha Park. At last you will fly back from Luang Prabang. Landmark agreement to ease the flow of people and goods between Thailand, Lao PDR and Viet Nam has been signed by the transport ministers of the three countries in Vientiane on 26 November 1999. Aimed at slashing the bureaucratic red tape that currently restricts cross-border traffic flows, the accord is expected to boost trade between the countries as well as between the region and the rest of the world.
Lijiang China International Travel Agnet in Yunnan arrange the overland tour form Yunnan to the neiboring countries. This Yunnan and Burma Old Road Tour will take you to visit Kunming,Shangri-La, Dali,Lijiang first, and then drive to the western Yunnan-Burma border and visit Tengchong, Mangshi, Ruili. you will enter Myanmar from Ruili Border Gate.In myanmar, you will meet your tour guide and driver for your trip to Mandalay and Yangon. You will have a beautiful cruise tour in Irawady River. The Yunnan-Burma Road is a road linking Burma (also called Myanmar) with China. Its terminals are Kunming, Yunnan and Lashio, Burma. The road is 1,154 km long and runs through rough mountain terrian. The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built with no machine, only with hand tools by 200,000 Chinese laborers(women, children and old men, as young men all went to war) during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938.
