Vietnam: Scooters, Temples and Churches, Water Puppets, and the Mekong Delta floating Market, all for the Price of One Blog. Everything included, special price…..free.

Vietnam was fast paced and action packed. Not a moment’s rest, which was a good thing – we wanted it all – and we sure got it! Our board member, Pam Taylor, joined us. This was a really nice surprise and she jumped straight into our mad schedule and played along. Crossing the street in Ho Chi Minh City was an exciting adventure, but even more so, was riding on the back of a scooter throughout the city. Scooters dominate, cars don’t. And if your driver is a dominant and aggressive scooter driver then be prepared for a massive adrenaline rush.

Fresh off the ship, we jumped on scooters and headed out to visit some churches and temples. Quite a surprise to find that in communist Vietnam there were rather large churches and temples.

We stopped by, soaked in the worshiping going on……

jumped back on our scooters and headed for a unique Water Puppet show. An almost lost ancient Vietnamese art, started over 1000 years ago by rice paddy farmers, recently over the last decade, it is slowly coming back mainstream.

This was an awesome show.

Check out the soon to be posted webumentaries on both scooter driving and water puppets.

2 a.m. on our last day we rented a small motorboat and headed for the Mekong Delta…zipping up the Saigon river and arriving to the floating market on the Mekong Delta at sunrise was another rich experience that none of us will forget.

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Comments

[Chris Plutte]

So glad to have the blogs back!!!!

[David Macquart]

cool!

[sharon evans (harvey world travel Marion)]

I have some clients who are really keen to see the water puppetts in Saigon can you please tell me how you got there and if you prebooked... where it was etc.

thanks,

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