Good Morning (Vietnam), Well we arrived back from Halong Bay yesterday so I thought I should tell you all about our trip! We made the long trip from Hoi An to Hanoi with little problems, I would really recommend the Sinh Tourist sleeper buses, they are by far the cheapest way to get around Vietnam and are pretty comfy! We checked into a guesthouse/hotel which was touted to us at our bus stop-over in Hue (14 hours away from Hanoi, these touts will do anything for some business), and used our first day in Hanoi to book the Halong Bay trip and look around, we haven't liked Hanoi much, everything is just so difficult, its hard to get around, hard to find things, hard to buy relatively normal purchases which we have been able to find
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