Hong Kong to Shanghai by Train

I decided to travel by train from Hong Kong to Shanghai.

Although this might seem like a waste of time (20 hours, rather than 2 hours maybe for a flight) I love trains,
but also it gets you a night's accomodation, it's cheaper, and it's better for the environment.

So, train travel is cool.

There's one train a day, and it leaves Hung Hom station at 15:15, and I paid $470HK for "Ying Wo" or "Hard bed"

You can also choose to sleep at the top, bottom, or middle.

For some reason I went "middle", although, actually, I prefer to be on the top, and it's actually cheaper.

So I'm a bit of a doofus.

Given its a 20 hours journey, you'd be advised to take some snacks, although the restaurant on the train is quite good (but it closes at 8pm).

Amusingly we got ourselves caught up in the "swine flu" epidemic.

In the room nextdoor there were some Spanish guys, who were quite loud.

During the night someone reported that they were ill, so in the morning quickly word spread, and everyone put on their hygiene masks, until we arrived at Shanghai to a host of police, white suited health officials,
and an ambulance.

Meanwhile the Spanish guys seemed ok,
but everyone kept a distance from them,
and eventually they were taken off in an ambulance.

Pretty fun stuff.