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What Is It Like To Be In Sydney For New Year's Eve?

By Abby Cassinia


The New Year is all about new opportunities, new beginnings, new relationships and new experiences. New Year's Eve is a time for everybody, everywhere, to sit back, relax, get ready to party, and remember the year just gone.

New Year's Eve is the one full day where pretty much the whole world stops and gets ready to celebrate the beginning of a brand new year. New Year's Eve is often a fun night, filled with music, parties, public parades and private resolutions.

People from different places in many ways celebrate New Year's Eve in similar ways. Nevertheless, at the same time, many countries have their own New Year's Eve traditions and ways of welcoming in the New Year that are different. Some countries get their traditions from where or whom they live with or their general beliefs.

Being near the International Date Line, Australia is among the first major countries to actually turn into the New Year. "Downunder" effectively becomes the commencement for all New Year's Eve celebrations. It can really be said that the rest of the world waits and watches for Oz to officially enter into the New Year and then countdown for the rest of us begins! Sydney in Australia has the most famous New Year's Eve celebration in Australia and the New Year's Eve in Sydney is easily the biggest Downunder.

Among the major features of Sydney's New Year's Eve celebration are their two traditional fireworks held in the city's famous Sydney Harbour. Over the years, Sydney has developed a distinct tradition for ushering in the New Year with an amazing fireworks display that the whole world watches. The first one (Family Fireworks) starts at around 9.00pm and the Midnight Fireworks welcome the New Year at midnight.

The amazing midnight firework display is strategically distributed through seven buildings around the harbour and on seven barges moored along the harbour. The seventh "barge" is actually the iconic Sydney Harbor Bridge! Last year the fireworks presentation played to the theme of "Embrace" and over a million people viewed this fiery display from vantage points along the harbour or aboard boat cruises. The New Year's Eve firework display on the stroke of midnight really is an impressive pyro technique presentation that is televised globally each year. Last New Year's Eve it is said that more than a billion people worldwide saw the Sydney New Year's Eve midnight fireworks at some stage during the day or night on their nightly news.

Times Square in New York City is another world famous destination for New Year's Eve celebrations. More than a million people flock to this part of the city to watch the famous Time Square Ball Drop at midnight every year. This tradition has been going for more than 100 years when it started in 1907. The famous ball is composed of panels with computerized LCD lighting and drops from a temporary pole to the enthusiastic countdown of the people watching below. Like the Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks, the New York City Times Square Ball Drop is also watched nationally by millions of people on television.

Partying, music and dancing around the square and nearby buildings accompany the celebration of New Year.

In most other cities of the world, fireworks are a standard feature in celebrating New Year. In many cities, parades and parties are commonly practiced.




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