Vietnam Part 3

Now we're getting to the best pictures.  The next part of our trip was in Northern Vietnam, where the landscape was much more interesting, but the food wasn't as good.  We flew from Saigon to Hanoi and took a bus out to Halong Bay.  For those of you who have never heard of Halong Bay, rent the movie Indochine.  The bay is full of thousands of tooth-like islands, definitely a must-see location for anyone visiting Vietnam.

We spent the first afternoon settling in.  We visited an newly built park that was part beach-side resort, part museum, and part Seaworld-style entertainment.  We then checked into our downtown hotel, where my parents ended up with a room three times the size of mine and Megan's.  The next day was great, sailing the between the islands of the bay.  We stopped on one of them to walk through a massive underground cave (battling hundreds of other tourists).

Pictures of the resort, our hotel, the caves and beautiful bay are here.