Wednesday 3 July 2013

Khatulistiwa Monument in Pontianak

In Pontianak, khatulistiwa monument or equator monument is very popular. Every visitor who comes must always be curious and find out the exact location of the point of zero degrees latitude that divides the Earth as a horizontal. The monument was inaugurated on 21 September 1991. And to beautify the building, made ​​the park up to the edge of the Kapuas River. Currently, 75-year-old monument. During that period of Pontianak be one of the famous cities in the world as a city of the equator. The best occasion around equator monument is when the sun clumination, that is when the sun was right on the top of the equator. in that time, the sun position will right on your head, so you can't see your own shadow or the thing around the monument. Excited ? Check this out.


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