I can't remember how many times I have walked on Tran Phu street, it can be said that this is the most beautiful beach road in the Central region.
I also don't remember how many times I walked on the streets of Nha Trang with so many changes, hundreds of years have passed there, from a small fishing village to now it has become a famous tourist city.
And even though there are times when I go far away, when I return I bring with me an extremely strange feeling, the feeling of love.
Canary flowers on the streets of Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa province).
People look through old documents, look at old pictures to remember the old Nha Trang, and I was born and raised in Nha Trang, for more than half a century I have been walking on the street, watching the seasons. Poinciana blooms, rough sea seasons and even rare days when storms come to town.
That city has a beach that hugs it, so anyone living in Nha Trang can go to the beach, jump into that sea, or just let their bare feet step on the smooth sand and watch. The waves quietly erased.
Cow hoof flowers on the streets of Nha Trang.
When I was 10 years old in Nha Trang, there were grocery stores that displayed glass jars with candies in them, the owner would give her as many as she could buy.
There are small troupes of singers who sing the hut song. At night, they spread out their mats at a lamp post and sing. Viewers put money into the hat in front of them. There are people selling tea and beef noodle soup with their wares going to every street corner, their noise filling the air.
Somewhere, the saleswoman displayed a few stools for customers to sell.
Nha Trang when I was 20 years old, touching the sound of cicadas in the poinciana flower row on Le Thanh Ton street (this row of trees no longer exists) or going to Ba Da Loc street (now Ly Tu Trong street) during the fruiting season of nacre trees. .
The mother-of-pearl fruits spread out their fallen wings, and the mother-of-pearl roots emerged from the ground, creating interesting images. It is Phan Thanh Gian street (now Pasteur street) with two rows of intersecting poinciana flowers. During the flower season, it creates a romantic scene, so the road at that time was called "the road of love" by the students. core".
Nha Trang in the days when there were still no people, when the roads had not yet expanded and could not be connected to each other, on Duy Tan (Tran Phu) street there were carts selling ice cream or selling toads, guavas, pickled mango and even thinly rolled grilled squid spread with a little chili sauce.
Phoenix Flower. Photo: MK
Now the city has expanded, the roads have connected and the city has many more flower seasons. In the old days, very few flowering trees were planted on the streets, mainly just poinciana and mother-of-pearl flowers, and some roads were planted with oval flowers (Nha Tho street, now Le Thanh Phuong street).
Almond trees have been in Nha Trang for a long time, like on Tran Phu street there are some ancient almond trees. And in the old days, sticky rice sellers often hired them to pick young almond leaves during the leaf-changing season to wrap sticky rice. Packets of sticky rice made of almond leaves create a delicious feeling.
In memory of the schoolboys of that time, in the season when the ripe almond tree fell, they would pick the fruit and break it open to eat, even though the tiny almond seeds were not worth the effort to break.
In later years, the city planted many flowering trees on the planned roads, and the flower seasons continued to delight people. There are many bougainvillea trellises on street corners that keep blooming when the sun comes up.
Take a short walk on Ngo Gia Tu street, where it borders Tran Nhat Duat and Truong Dinh streets, and encounter blooming sala trees. In the morning, when passing by, you will hear a pleasant scent. Duong Quang Ham street, part of Tran Phu street blooms with lilies.
Hoang Hoa Tham Street has two types of pink trumpet flowers and yellow trumpet flowers. Ton That Tung Street has a carpet of bougainvillea flowers connecting with the tigon flower slope to Pham Van Dong Street.
On Tran Phu (Chut) street are linden flowers, often surprising with yellow canary flowers blooming right at the sixth intersection... And in the falling fruit season, you will see the pinwheels of the black star tree spinning in the wind. Nha Trang has a road of ox hoof flowers (Truong Han Sieu) and square eagle flowers at Bach Dang Park...
Sala flower. Photo: GC
100 years of Nha Trang, the ocean waves still flap with the wind, the city's transformation is truly miraculous. The city is entering its 100th flower season.
