Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/12
By: Chen Chi-fong and William Yen
Taipei, Nov. 12 (CNA) A large crowd of up to 1,000 photographers were disappointed by
The horde of photographers and reporters were hoping to photograph the alignment at a photography event organized by the city’s tourism bureau which took them to the inner lanes on Cingnian Road where it meets with Minquan Road and Guanghua Road that were partly closed off for the occasion.
the rain as they waited for a setting sun alignment that never showed on a busy road in Kaohsiung on Sunday.
The setting sun that was supposed to align with the city’s Cingnian Road twice a year, on the first day of Chinese New Year and around Nov. 12, is said to resemble the Manhattanhenge, an event during which the sun, either rising or setting, is aligned with the streets in New York’s Manhattan.
The sun aligning with the road in Kaohsiung Jan. 28 (file photo)
The horde of photographers and reporters were hoping to photograph the alignment at a photography event organized by the city’s tourism bureau which took them to the inner lanes on Cingnian Road where it meets with Minquan Road and Guanghua Road that were partly closed off for the occasion.
At the scene a person said, “What a pity, I came all the way from Nanzih District here but saw nothing,” while another cried into the sky: “My beautiful dream of shooting the sun alignment has just vanished like bubbles!” [FULL STORY]
