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Location: In Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak
Province.
Characteristics: The poetic “Ban Me six-road junction" has undergone lots
of change. It has witnessed the ups and downs of the history of the Central
Highlands, including Buon Ma Thuot.
In the early years of the 20th century, Buon Ma Thuot people chose a flat place
to settle. The six-road junction constitutes a convergence point of many
intermingled roads connecting the residential areas of the Kinh with the
villages of the E De and the road to the midland region. These red-soil roads
used to be muddy in the rainy season and dusty in the dry season. They are now
asphalted. In the 1940s of the 20th century, this had a three-lamp post. This
was also the very place that 100 local inhabitants of Lac Giao Village were
killed by the French colonialists during their second attack on Buon Ma Thuot in
November 1945. The sacrifice of militant Tran The left moved feelings among the
local people here. At the junction, there used to be the factory of Buocgeri,
the house of former public works director, the coach station, the busy streets
lined with shops, drugstores, and groceries of the Vietnamese and Chinese
people. Time is a great healer. Shortly after 1975, Buon Ma Thuot six-road
junction has taken a new face of a young city with monuments, hotels, cultural
centers, and general service buildings, Dak Lak Tourist Company, as well as the
Televise-Radio Station. Buon Ma Thuot people, including those who are natives
and immigrants, have contributed to this new face.
After 1975, the six-road junction looked devastated with streets destroyed by
bombs. Today, this junction has got a new appearance. One can get to No Trang
Long Street, or walk along Phan Chu Trinh Street and Nguyen Tat Thanh Avenue the
electric lights and colors of these streets suddenly remind us of the past.
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