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October 17th 2017
Published: October 17th 2017
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Hi happy readers Well after a restful sleep it was time to plan our week out. With a couple of tours now booked for mid week we decided today we would do something different. We organised With the front desk to book some Cyclo’s (Rickshaw) for us for the afternoon. We needed one each so they agreed to come collect us as apparently there are some suburbs they are not allowed into I guess due to ... Read Full Entry



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Statue of a women and her children as a female fighting to protect her family
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A brass statue of a very famous female from the war times
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The front sign
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The famous Water puppet show
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A large version of the puppets.
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Pauline with the lady puppet prop
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Sheryl with the lady puppet prop
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Me with a different lady puppet prop. She was a yellow and blue one ha ha
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And Bryan had to manipulate this poor lady
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3 of the voice overs and singers. There are 3 each side
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Some of the puppets in the story. This guy is riding a water buffalo
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More puppets
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The singers telling the story and playing the music
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More puppets
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Beautiful puppets
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And the story goes on
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The 3 storytellers on the other side
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The boat race scene
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The finishing dance
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And the very clever men behind the whole show.
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Then it was down to the water front to hop onto a river cruise



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