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Where To Stream Great Asian Railway Journeys Season 1 Episode 10

Hanoi to Ha Long Bay

Steered by his 1913 Bradshaw's Guide, Michael continues his thousand-mile journey through what was then French Indochina and is today the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Approaching Hanoi aboard the Unification Railway, Michael passes the famous train street, where the locomotive passes within centimetres of the houses either side of the tracks. Checking into the capital's famous Metropole Hotel, built at the time of his guidebook, Michael discovers a bunker where guests sheltered from American...