The bus from Hanoi left at 19:30, an overnight journey that should arrive in Hue at 08:00 the next morning. They have this thing called a "sleeping bus" here in Vietnam. I've never seen anything like it before but in principle it sounds like a very good idea. Instead of seats you have three rows of bunk beds, so you're almost lying flat while you travel - hence sleeping bus.

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