After Saigon, Michael & I flew to Hanoi. We did the self-guided walking tour of the city recommended in the
Lonely Planet book we were carrying. We saw lots & lots of stores selling lots & lots of crap. At the end of the tour, we arrived at the venerated
water puppet theater. I was excited to see a show - Michael not so much, but he went along with it anyway.
Now, if you've never seen a Vietnamese water puppet show, you really haven't seen Vietnam - at least that's what the brochure says. The puppeteers stand behind a bamboo screen in a pool of water, manipulating wooden puppets to tell the story of kings, dragons & rice growers. It's campy, but I loved it anyway. It was great entertainment for two bucks.
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