From Hanoi, we had an early morning start to catch the bus for our 3 day tour of Halong Bay. I am usually never much of a fan of organized tours in any country but sometimes it works out to be cheaper to join one since you split the cost with so many other people and its also nice sometimes when…

Since I'd already been backpacking in Hanoi for three days but hadn't seen anything due to being sick up to this point, I thought I would take about two more days here to check out the city. I thought a week would have been too much as Hanoi is a pretty busy city and it didn't seem like the kind of…