Vietnam Culture

A Traveler’s Guide to the 2025 Ho Chi Minh City Water Puppet Show Ticket

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A Traveler’s Guide to the 2025 Ho Chi Minh City Water Puppet Show Ticket So, you find yourself wandering through Ho Chi Minh City, a place with a constant stream of motorbikes and smells of street food in the air. You are probably looking for something special to do. Well, there’s a unique performance art that tells old stories, and frankly, it is a spectacle that comes from the rice paddies of northern Vietnam. This art is water puppetry, you know, and it’s almost a must-see. This piece, right, is about helping you understand the show and figure out the …

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Hanoi City Tour & Water Puppet Show: An Honest 2025 Review

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Hanoi City Tour & Water Puppet Show: An Honest 2025 Review So, you are thinking about spending a day checking out Hanoi, right? It’s almost a given that you’ve seen packages offering a full-day city exploration that caps it all off with a water puppet show. Honestly, the question is if it’s genuinely worth your time and your travel money. I recently went on one of these day trips, you know, to get the complete picture for 2025. This write-up is basically my way of sharing what really happens, the good parts and the just okay parts. You could say …

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Mekong Delta Private Tour: A My Tho & Ben Tre Day Trip Review

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Mekong Delta Private Tour: A My Tho & Ben Tre Day Trip Review Honestly, getting out of Ho Chi Minh City for a day is sometimes a really welcome change of pace. The city has this incredible energy, you know, but the quiet of the countryside just kind of calls to you after a while. We were actually looking for an escape that was easy and didn’t involve a big group, so a private car trip to the Mekong Delta seemed more or less perfect. The idea of going straight from our hotel to My Tho and Ben Tre, two …

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