New Taipei City brightens Pingsi venues for visitorsBy William Hetherington / Staff writer, with CNAThree areas in New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) have been brightened by colorful light installations in an effort by the city’s Tourism and Travel Department to draw visitors. Installations at Jingtong Sky Lantern Pavilion, the entrance to Shihfen Scenic Area and at Pingsi Railway Station are worth visiting day or night, the tourism department said on Friday. A woman stands under a light display at the Shihfen Scenic Area in New Taipei City in an undared photograph. Visitors can also travel to the district on route 795 of the Taiwan Tourist Bus Travel Service (台灣好行), it added. In Shihfen, visitors can explore the remnants of structures built when the area was originally settled as a coal mining town.
