Quietly in the afternoon of Da Lat

This afternoon, Sunday, Dalat is unusual. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a vast, barbaric mountain town. The girl quietly looked at the street at the corner of Xuan Huong Lake, the graves lined up to rest, the once busy streets were now empty of people.

Quiet afternoon by Xuan Huong Lake, Da Lat City. This afternoon, Sunday, Dalat is unusual. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a vast, barbaric mountain town. The girl quietly looked at the street at the corner of Xuan Huong Lake, the graves lined up to rest, the once busy streets were now empty of people. My friend posted on his personal Facebook the status line “Silently in the afternoon of Da Lat …” and attached a photo of Lam Vien Square sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, because not a single step woke up. Da Lat is not as noisy and bustling as it was last week, before. When the scene is crowded at the night market, the commotion in the central square of the mountain town is constantly on the media during the peak tourist season. Da Lat used to be so “crowded” that the city government had to send the message “hoping people give up space for circulation and experience for tourists”. That is also a common thing in the mountain town in the peak tourist season, on weekends. Because Da Lat tourism brand is always thought of by tourists on their journey to find a place to rest and relax. Today, the weekend, Da Lat is very different, the streets are quiet and light. The sudden rain at the end of the season is like washing away, dispelling the anxiety and pent-up of the authorities and people here, while overnight waiting for the results of hundreds of F1, F2 cases related to Covid-19 patients- 19 number 3141 (living in Bac Ninh province, traveling to Da Lat from May 2 to 5 and visited about 20 points in the mountain town). Results announced on the morning of May 9, all 329 test samples of the cases related to the above case had negative results for the first time for SARS-CoV-2. Lightly, but not subjectively, negligently and locally activated the entire system, prepared a plan to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. In the express dispatch sent out on the night of May 8, about continuing to implement some measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, Lam Dong Provincial People’s Committee was cautious: “During this time, the locality proposes to travel Guests should consider and limit visiting Da Lat city in particular, Lam Dong province in general and share, sympathize, as well as spend appropriate time to Da Lat – Lam Dong. Da Lat is sad, but beautiful! That state of mind has been savored by many travelers and reminded many times. This afternoon I wandered alone in the mountain town, quietly watching Da Lat rain through, the streets and streets did not touch each other… Da Lat was strangely “quiet”. It’s so quiet that you can “hear faintly a pine leaf falling” (quoted from “Da Lat once the moon” by Nguyen Duy). The feeling of sadness and silence will soon pass, when Da Lat “returns to normal”. The land that “gives one person joy, another cool” welcomes the footsteps of travelers. At that time, finding the feeling of “quietly afternoon Da Lat” is also difficult. Center of the mountain town of Da Lat in the afternoon of May 9.