Dalat – The Flower Paradise Of Vietnam

Dalat is not only the most attractive tourist destination of the country but also becomes one of the most desirable cities in Vietnam.

There are a lot of names that people use to name Dalat: City of Thousands of Flowers, Land of Love, Sad City, Dream City, Peach Flowerland … Nature and people of Da Lat go to poetry, pictures, art, and the heart. But despite trying to describe, only when you set foot in this land, you have the feeling of your own about it.

Overview to Dalat

Dalat is a city in Lam Dong province, located on the Lam Vien plateau, at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level with a natural area of 393.29 square kilometers.

With many beautiful landscapes, Dalat is one of the best destination in Vietnam. During the French colonial period, the Latin name Dat Aliis Laetitiam Aliis Temperiem means “for these people joy, for others the coolness”. Dalat is dubbed: flower city, love city, spring city, fog city.

As a Little Paris, Da Lat is romantic and poetic thanks to the cold at night, the fog in the early morning and the pine forests surrounding the city. This pine forest helps Da Lat cool more.

Dalat has two distinct seasons. Rainy season from May to October, sunny season from November to April. In the summer it usually rains in the afternoon, sometimes there is hail. Da Lat never had storms, but only big winds due to storm from the sea.

Due to the influence of elevation and pine forest, Dalat has many characteristics of the temperate zone. The average temperature is 18-21 ° C, the highest temperature never exceeds 30 ° C and the lowest is no less than 5 ° C.

Particularly interesting things

Dalat also is a city “3 no” that not all tourists know. “3 no” is not a campaign but is something that Da Lat does not have.

The City has not red lights

First of all, there is no traffic light in Dalat. Taking a walk around Da Lat city, you can not find any traffic light. It seems obvious to the people of Da Lat but not many tourists know. Da Lat city is located on Lam Vien plateau, so there are many hills and slopes. Therefore, There are no traffic lights installed here. At the fork, intersection, people built the roundabout. Dalat does not have any means of transportation, so the road is very open, and people’s sense of law is very good.

If you want to verify this, immediately take a tours in Vietnam to visit Da Lat. During your trip, you can combine sightseeing places such as the romantic Tuyen Lam Lake, romantic Xuan Huong Lake or the flower gardens blooming.

The city no cycle rickshaw

The second is that Dalat has not cycle rickshaw. Due to the sloping terrain, cycling a velotaxi is a difficult thing in this city.

The city no air condition

The last thing is that Dalat has not air condition. Da Lat city is about 1,500 meters above sea level, with high mountainous climate and an average temperature of 18-21 degrees Celsius. Because of the cold climate, almost all villagers, as well as household or hotels, does not use the air conditioner.

Dalat is special in their own cultural identity Tay Nguyen as beautiful as a legend. The gentle people live by doing farming, gardening, coffee, tea, cattle breeding … On the special days of the village, family fun, visitors will see them dancing, singing, playing music. The unique instruments whose sounds sound like winds murmuring, the water flowing down the rocks. Beautiful nature has created the Da Lat people have a lovely style, gentle, elegant and hospitable.

The slow, peaceful life of Da Lat will help you to live slowly, think slowly, to feel your heart more peaceful … Maybe, taking Vietnam Package Tours, you can recognize what you really want, what you did and what you will do with your work and your lives.