Water puppetry

You absolutely must go to a Water Puppet Show (mua roi nuoc) when you are in Hanoi.especially if you have children or are a child at heart. They are absolutely charming and it's a uniquely Vietnamese art form that you really won't find anywhere else in the world. The stage is a small pool and the puppeteers hide behind a screen.so the brightly colored puppets come in and out of the water in amazing ways. The live music is wonderful and here is quite a cast of puppets from men fishing, to dancing women, a wide variety of animals .and of course fireworks and some modern stage effects. The hour show is done entirely in Vietnamese with accompanied by traditional Vietnamese sting instruments. It consists of short skits of traditional Vietnamese stories (that if you've been in Vietnam for awhile you will know). But you won't need to know the stories or language to be totally enthralled. It was such a wonderful show that when you leave you will be "walking on water" !.

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