Sunday, December 20, 2015

Minosa flowers, Da Lat

Dalat is located in the southern Vietnam's Central Highlands, surrounded by pine forest, hills, valleys, waterfalls and lakes.



Sắc vàng mimosa in trên nền trời xanh - Ảnh: Cao Cat



Mentioning Da Lat, tourists, less or much, think of the city of flowers especially Minosa. Mimosa is not so as much beautiful as other flowers,
but its charming, graceful apperance, attractive colour of yellow, has drawn thousands of visits to Da Lat on year end.



Hoa và nụ mimosa - Ảnh: Trân Duy


The legend of Mimosa flower is spead mouth to mouth. Once upon a time, in the beautiful, romantic region in Australia lives a couple of lovers. They fell in love for the first sight but it is a star-crossed love which is doomed to end in tragedy. 



Những bông hoa như một cục bông với hàng trăm cánh nhỏ li ti - Ảnh: Trân Duy


The girl is so pretty, kind hearted and loves the yellow. She is a beloved daughter of an aristocratic family, while the man has shining black complexation and is a son of a fisher man  







Due to different social classes, her family prevents their love affair and marries her to a rich duke. 


Mimosa, loài cây lá bạc hoa vàng mọc hoang tô điểm cho núi rừng - Ảnh: Trân Duy


The man gets disappointed, leaves his home village, and leads his life as a forest keeper in a far remote region to forget his sorrowful love affairs. One day, there occurred a big violent fire, he made a great effort to extinguish the fire.



Mimosa trong ngày đông lạnh - Ảnh: Trân Duy



Unfortunately, he caught fire and got burnt to death. Hearing a bad news, she ran to the incident and saw his body in a slum of ash, she knelt down and died beside him. Then, there appears a plant with a very blue leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.

Photos of Tuoi Tre online

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