Quiet and listless during the day, the district comes alive only at sundown, when children are let out of school and play in groups of four or five in the wider areas of the streets, and when housewives take in the wash and exchange gossip with neighbors.
白天是一片懶洋洋的靜謐，到了黃昏才顯現活力，孩子放學了，三五成群在街巷較寬敞處嬉戲；主婦們在各自的庭院裡撿菜、收衣服，並不時與對面庭院裡的鄰人話家常。