Hanoi Ethnography Museum

We visited the Ethnography Museum in Hanoi before we left. It helped us to understand more about all the different groups of people who live in Vietnam and had some interesting displays, both indoors and outdoors. All of the different traditional types of houses, made from wood and bamboo, were the most fascinating and we all had fun climbing into these and exploring. There was also an "interesting" burial display, with graphic "fertility symbols" adorned all around it (see photo) - cue some "interesting" questions from Solana afterwards!!! Whilst at the museum, we also went to see another water puppet theatre show - this time an outdoor one. Thankfully Solana was more awake than the first time we tried to take her, on our 1st day in Hanoi, and this time there were no tears and she loved it. She's been talking about it and wanting to make a puppet ever since! As entertaining as the show itself was the fact that we were the only Western faces at the show - the rest of the outdoor theatre was full of Vietnamese nursery and school children. Solana was a BIG hit with the theatre & school staff afterwards and was much in demand for photos - from them, not us!!!Read more