If you are planning to stay in hostels or take night trains, I highly recommend that you take along a pair of earplugs to sleep in. It can be very difficult to sleep without them.

In the hostels, some of your roommates will come in at 3am, while others will get up at the buttcrack of dawn and make a lot of noise with their backpacks and lockers.

On the trains, some people will be rowdy and loud, and others will snore like a buzzsaw.

To each his own, but don’t forget your earplugs.