{"id":48105,"date":"2024-05-19T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=48105"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T04:00:02","slug":"passenger-shares-impressive-experience-aboard-overnight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=48105","title":{"rendered":"Passenger shares impressive experience aboard overnight train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flying is expensive and not always practical, so a TikToker shared an amazing alternative: a sleeper train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These overnight trains in China is the best way to travel for someone who doesn&#8217;t like flying,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@themonkeykang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Monkey Kang<\/a>(@themonkeykang) said. &#8220;I have the whole day in the city I&#8217;m visiting to sightsee, save on that night&#8217;s hotel, and still be back in my home city at dawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@themonkeykang\/video\/7364028440120446251\" data-video-id=\"7364028440120446251\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@themonkeykang\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@themonkeykang?refer=embed\">@themonkeykang<\/a> <p>I took the high speed train from Beijing to Shenzhen. It\u2019s almost a 4 hour flight but I\u2019d rather spend 11 hours on an overnight train and sleep away the night than go through airport security and fly. I can get some work done, stretch out, watch some movies, and get some rest <a title=\"train\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/train?refer=embed\">#train<\/a> <a title=\"railway\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/railway?refer=embed\">#railway<\/a> <a title=\"highspeedrail\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/highspeedrail?refer=embed\">#highspeedrail<\/a> <a title=\"bullettrain\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/bullettrain?refer=embed\">#bullettrain<\/a> <a title=\"travel\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/travel?refer=embed\">#travel<\/a> <a title=\"flying\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/flying?refer=embed\">#flying<\/a> <a title=\"firstclass\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/firstclass?refer=embed\">#firstclass<\/a> <\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c Diary - \u5609\u742a\u5148\u751f\uff06\u5c0f\u5976\u74f6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/Diary-6874994400309544968?refer=embed\">\u266c Diary &#8211; \u5609\u742a\u5148\u751f\uff06\u5c0f\u5976\u74f6<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip was from Beijing to Shenzhen, a roughly 2,200-kilometer journey (1,367 miles) that takes three-plus hours by plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather spend 11 hours on an overnight train and sleep away the night than go through airport security and fly,&#8221; the creator&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@themonkeykang\/video\/7364028440120446251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;I can get some work done, stretch out, watch some movies, and get some rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best part? A ticket cost just $120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China is the standard-bearer for bullet trains, having added&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/english.scio.gov.cn\/chinavoices\/2024-01\/09\/content_116928609.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">45,000 kilometers<\/a>&nbsp;(around 28,000 miles) of high-speed rail track&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/china-high-speed-rail-cmd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since the 2000s<\/a>. That&#8217;s more than the rest of the world combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying is expensive and not always practical, so a TikToker shared an amazing alternative: a sleeper train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":48106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,9183],"tags":[266,9419],"class_list":["post-48105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-rail-travel","tag-china","tag-sleeper-trains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48107,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48105\/revisions\/48107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}