Hanoi again
Back again in Hanoi and nothing has changed! We've got a few days to just bum around and not do much, because we have booked a flight to go to Kuala Lumpur on the 28th January. Really looking forward to it, especially as I'm fed up of wearing a jumper! Hooray!
It was the cheapest flight on that date so we are stuck for a bit in Hanoi, killing time, but the price difference was about $100 and for that money, I don't mind taking it easy for a few days. So today, we went and checked out the Water Puppet Theatre.
Basically, Hanoi is very famous for its water puppets, which are wooden dolls with some moveable limbs and they are moving about in a pool filled with water. The water is quite dirty, so you can't see the strings and sticks used to make them move, but it's quite an art form and very difficult to do well. When done well, the dolls look alive and as if they are walking on water.
So we were in this theatre and watched the show with about 100 other tourists which was a bit poo. But the show was quite good fun. They were narrating some kind of story in Vietnamese and the puppets were doing their thing to some traditional music. The music was interesting - I liked it for a while and then it got a bit much because I think you have to wail quite a lot, which is fine when you understand what they are saying, but if you don't, well ...
The stories were short, such as 'Children playing in water' and 'Raising a flag', but some were a bit more complicated, such as 'Rearing ducks and catching foxes' or 'Agriculture'. :o)
It was the cheapest flight on that date so we are stuck for a bit in Hanoi, killing time, but the price difference was about $100 and for that money, I don't mind taking it easy for a few days. So today, we went and checked out the Water Puppet Theatre.
Basically, Hanoi is very famous for its water puppets, which are wooden dolls with some moveable limbs and they are moving about in a pool filled with water. The water is quite dirty, so you can't see the strings and sticks used to make them move, but it's quite an art form and very difficult to do well. When done well, the dolls look alive and as if they are walking on water.
So we were in this theatre and watched the show with about 100 other tourists which was a bit poo. But the show was quite good fun. They were narrating some kind of story in Vietnamese and the puppets were doing their thing to some traditional music. The music was interesting - I liked it for a while and then it got a bit much because I think you have to wail quite a lot, which is fine when you understand what they are saying, but if you don't, well ...
The stories were short, such as 'Children playing in water' and 'Raising a flag', but some were a bit more complicated, such as 'Rearing ducks and catching foxes' or 'Agriculture'. :o)
We also went to the dentist today and it was brillo cheap! Phil and I both had a clean and polish, checkup and fillings and we've now got hollywood smiles!
All in all, good fun. Not sure what we'll be up to next...
All in all, good fun. Not sure what we'll be up to next...
posted by Phil and Tanja @ 3:00 AM
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