Since October, with the warmer temperature, South Africa has ushered in the annual Jacaranda blooming period.
In Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, jacarandas fill the streets and alleys, and also dot this African city into a blue ocean.
However, unlike previous years when the jacaranda trees were crowded downstream, South Africa's tourism industry was hit hard by the new crown pneumonia epidemic this year, resulting in scarce tourists during the peak tourist season in October.
Although the South African government has reopened the border on October 1 and lifted the ban on international tourism, the move has had little effect.
On October 15, the reporter visited the "Jacaranda Avenue" near the Presidential Palace in Pretoria and found that although the jacarandas were in full bloom, there were still very few pedestrians, and the "helpless flowers fall" was basically a foregone conclusion.
(Reporter Wang Xi edited Zhou Jing)
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]