Vietnamese people are endowed with humor, especially self-irony. T-shirts in tourists shops often express well their spirit, my favourite in this summer shows the spiderman trapped in electrical lines of…
Today I presented the first episode of the documentary in Dante Alighieri, Italian Language Center in Hanoi (Vietnam). It’s hard to describe how enriching and interesting was the experience. The…
A tourist take a photo during a Water Puppet Show in Hanoi, lighting all the theatre for a split second.
Dear followers and occasional readers, about a year ago I was planning my first travel in Vietnam for realizing this blog. The reason why I haven’t published posts in these…
There is a particular sketch in Vietnam Water Puppets: it tells about traditional children’s games in the villages’ lakes and ponds…
Water Puppets need to take turns at performing on water, because if they take too much dampness their wood risk to decay. Therefore, artists have to periodically switch them, and…
The water puppets fairies, unmoving in the off-stage storage area.
At the northen end of Hoan Kiem Lake is an islet on which stands a small tower. Called Thap Rùa (Turtle Tower), this structure honors the magic turtle that still…
A water puppet stands on a round wooden plate which can rotate around its horizontal axis with a rudder at the bottom. The plate is linked with a long pole…
I discovered on Youtube a wonderful Vietnamese 3D cartoon, In the shade of trees. It talks about courage and the protagonists are a mouse, a frog, a crab and…a snake!…
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