Nhà Hát Múa Rối Thang Long

So the next stop on the tourist trail involved water puppets. Water puppets are truly amusing. A traditional art in northern Vietnam, water puppetry is now kept alive not in the villages where it began, but in the Thanh Long Water Puppet Theatre in the middle of Hanoi. Anyway, they also do a show out at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. This museum, aside from having some fascinating on some of the primary ethnic groups in Vietnam, has just opened a gallery on Hanoi from 1975 to 1989, the period of the subsidized economy. Very interesting, and, to say it mildly, unusual to see.

The GREEN words in the above paragraph are links to the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

Randomly, just to keep you thankful for fresh air and freedom, here is what you would look like if you were a snake and were dropped into a large jar of fermenting rice with some of your friends and left on a shelf somewhere. “Snake wine.”

So here is a photo of the water puppets.


To top all of that, today is also to test out my ability to post videos. Apologies to people using dialup, it might take forever to actually see the videos, but they are still there, trust me!