In Vietnam, Đa Lat is a popular
tourist destination - highly appreciated for its temperate climate,
beautiful sights such as waterfalls and lakes and its abundance of
flowers and vegetables. It is the location of the Novotel Dalat
(formerly Dalat Hotel) and Sofitel Dalat Palace (formerly Dalat Palace
built in 1922).
Introduction & Location
“Listening to the noon going down in the
romantic town, a Da Lat-violet is filled with fog…” (written by Minh
Ky, Da Cam) is lyric of a famous song about Da Lat – one of the top
prioritized destinations in Vietnam for its romantic and flowerful
beauty. Located in the South Central Highlands of Vietnam (Lang Biang
Highlands), Da Lat was originally the playground of the French , and
today’s “valley of love”, surrounded by cool, fresh and silently
charming atmosphere.
Weather
Da Lat is extremely famous for mild
weather. Thanks to the advantage of height and enclosing pine jungle,
the town is featured with temperate climate, with an average temperature
of 18oC – 21°C, highest as 30oC and lowest as 5°C.
What is more, Da Lat has two distinct
seasons, the rainy and the sunny ones. The former is from May to
October, and the former from November to April. Tourists should be
prepared for sudden rains in sunny season, sometimes rocky ones. Never
in Da Lat could we ever catch a storm, which make it favorable for
tourists to take any daytime leisure walk.
This pure land of romance was discovered
by the French during their invasion in southern Vietnam. Before 1893,
Lang Biang highlands, an extremely cool and fresh aired area, was the
accommodation of the Viet highlanders. Yet there came the day the French
would like to settle a convalescent zone in a European weather-like
land in 1899. Of course, they could not miss Lang Biang Highlands then.
Ever since the significant choice, Da Lat was later on built with all
required French-style houses, villas, treatment places, and temperate
flowers & plants, etc. This has step by step formulated today’s
romantic and glamorous Da Lat, a clear mountainous air zone for escaping
the heat and humidity of the coast and Saigon, or the today’s Hochiminh
City.
Natural beauty
It’s no easy at all for travellers to
choose the initial visiting place in Da Lat for its widespread covering
beauty. On a whole, Da Lat looks like a cross between Vietnam and the
French Alps. As mentioned, most of its hotels and houses were built in
French style. The town spreads across a series of pine-covered hills,
with a small lake in the center, while surrounded by high peaks,
creating a lovely scenery quite different from the rest of Vietnam.
Temperatures are pleasantly warm by day, and quite cool at night, down
to perhaps 10oC.
Today, Dalat is undoubtedly a beautiful
tourist town. The vast majority of visitors are both domestic and
foreign tourists on short package tours, drawn by the scenery, vivid
blue skies, fresh air, flower-filled parks, and local edible treatment.
Dalat is a favorite destination for company weekend outings, family
get-aways, and most of all, honeymoons. For overseas visitors, it offers
a chance to cool down, view a bit of the French legacy, and enjoy the
atmosphere. Also, Da Lat is surrounded by some of the best mountain
biking, hiking and canyoning opportunities in Vietnam. Da Lat's high
altitude of 1,500-2,000m and fertile landscape make it one among
Vietnam's premium agricultural areas, producing a variety of fruits,
vegetables and flowers that do not grow in the lowlands. In markets as
far north as Hanoi, vegetables and flower vendors will tout their "made
in Da Lat" produce.
Source: Vietnam-beauty.com
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