VIDEO: Hanoi Train Street

Hanoi’s new attraction is a railway track in the middle of a residential colony. For many of us, riding the train is a part of the daily grind. And there are a few, for whom watching a train chugging by their balcony is a daily affair. These are the people that live barely a few metres away from a fully active railway track in Hanoi.

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Pluto, alias Guglielmo Zanchi, was born in Rome, Italy, on 19 December 1960. After obtaining a Degree in Political Science at the La Sapienza University and working six years at an accountant office, PLuto moved to Phuket, Thailand, in 1993. He had a short spell at a Gibbon Rehabilitation Center in the protected area of Bang Pae, then worked for 15 years for a local tour operator first in Phuket, and eventually in Krabi where he still lives since 2000. Pluto now works self employed in the tourist sector, managing to keep enough time free for his real passions: photography, travels and Vespa, at times merging the latter two. Pluto is one of asianitinerary.com photo reporters.

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