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Water Puppet Show and Dinner Cruise

Package Details
Destination: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Vietnam
Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Price: $57.00
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Spend an entertaining evening learning about Vietnamese folklore with a humorous performance of a traditional water puppet show. Laugh along as talented puppeteers, singers, and orchestra musicians tell stories of rural life, and then glide out onto the Saigon River for a delicious dinner cruise.

Itinerary
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Pass By: Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

Start by being picked up by your motorbike driving guide at 5:45pm and get ready to discover the cultures of the Vietnamese people on the back of a motorbike, like a true local. The tour guide will transfer you to the Puppet show.

You will enjoy a performance of fascinating Vietnamese art during a traditional 45-minute water puppet show. The stories told with water puppets are closely associated with the spiritual life of Vietnamese people, especially in the countryside.
The stage for the show is the surface of a water pool. Puppeteers demonstrate their clever skills by managing puppets with long bamboo rods and a string mechanism under the surface of the water. A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides musical accompaniment. The puppets act out the stories told by the songs, which reflect the peaceful life of the Vietnamese countryside.

At 7:15pm, You will hop on the back of the motorbike and transferred to Nguyen Tat Thanh pier and embarking on Indochina Junk Cruise.
Cruising along Saigon River in the evening, you can catch sight of the city lighting up and enjoy your dinner while folk music fills the air. This experience is not only nice in view but also in taste.