When we arrived in Hanoi, we decided to stay in the first guest house we found. It is actually very nice, and I was just glad to finally have a bed to sleep in. We spent our first day in Vietnam at Halong Bay. We actually didn’t get to spend that much time on the bay because we were stuck with a group who was planning on staying several days out on the bay, so the workers spent several hours trying to get their paperwork together. I can’t believe how much paperwork you have to fill out to do things here in Vietnam. I was disappointed that Sonja didn’t really get to experience much of the bay because it was one of the highlights of our trip last year. We still enjoyed looking at the limestone and cliffs and exploring the cave in Halong Bay.