This happened a few nights ago, but we have been quite busy and I typed it out in my last post along with Sen and lost is somehow. We were lucky enough to be taken under the wings of two teachers who worked in the summer school here, and know their way around the city fairly well.
They brought us to the old quarter of the city, and it was much busier than our area but also a little bit nicer. We bargained for a few different things, and went to eat at the Kangaroo cafe for dinner (Burgers! I had missed them!). The owner is extremely into signs for everything, photos all over the wall, and very overly concerned with reminding/proving this is the one and only Kangaroo cafe ("Beware of imposters! They will steal your money like they stole our name!")
We then went to the Hanoi water puppet theater. There are only two water puppet theaters that exist, and both are in Vietnam. It was only 60000 vnd for a second class seat (3$). The video we posted has a few things that we did not get to see. It was fascinating the way that the puppets bobbed and swayed and moved through the water. I am not totally sure how they were controlled, from some kind of underwater mechanism. I think we might try and go again at some point, mostly because we were totally and utterly exhausted from a busy day around the city!
Hope to hear from you soon!
Sara
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