10 April 2011

6th day in vietnam-HCMC

Booked our trip to Mekong tomorrow (44 USD for 3 ppl- price increase due to public holiday). Then walk to Diamond Plaza and have our lunch.

Main target is to go Trung Nguyen coffee house. The No.1 coffee in vietnam. Try it and u will love it. Bought some coffee from there too.

Then we look for the VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPET SHOW at Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theatre (55B, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Dist 1, HCMC). 50 min show without intermission. daily show (5pm & 6:30pm). Ticket VND 120,000/pax.

It starts with music prelude and follow by a few story:
1. Raising the Festival Flag
2. The Narrator: Teu
3. Dragon dance
4. In a buffalo with a flute
5. Agriculture
6. Catching frogs
7. Rearing ducks and catching foxes
8. Fishing
9. Returning with pride
10.Lion dance
11.Phoenix dance
12.King Le Loi in boat tour and legend 'restored sword'
13.Children playing in water
14.Boat racing
15.Unicorns play with ball
16.Fairy dance
17.dance of 4holy animals

They hide at the back, half body soaked in the water to present all the above scene.
It is nice, but it will be better if they show English wording on a screen. they talk and sing in Vietnam language which most of the tourist actually cant understand.

We had our dinner at Napoly

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