Tuesday, 22 October 2013

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.

How do major cities celebrate New Year's Eve? In many ways, people of different places celebrate it in similar ways. Yet at the same time, they have their own traditional ways of welcoming the New Year that are different from the others. Some get their traditions depending on where they live and what they believe in.

Australia is among the first major countries to actually see in the New Year, as it is close to the International Date Line. Australia effectively becomes the commencement for all New Year's Eve celebrations around the world and it is as if the whole world waits and watches for Australia to officially enter into the New Year and then countdown for the rest of the world begins! The New Year's Eve in Sydney is the biggest Downunder

Sydney's New Year's Eve celebration includes two massive fireworks displays held across the city's famous Sydney Harbour. Over the years, Sydney has become famous for entering the New Year with an amazing midnight fireworks display that the whole world watches. However, what is not as well known is that Sydney actually has its Family Fireworks display earlier in the evening at 9.00pm. So essentially you get two great fireworks displays in one fantastic night.

The Sydney New Year's Eve midnight fireworks display is an impressive pyro technique presentation that is televised globally. Last New Year's Eve more than a billion people worldwide watched the Sydney New Year's Eve midnight fireworks on television. With firework bases strategically distributed through seven buildings around the harbour and in seven barges moored along the harbour (the seventh "barge" was actually the Harbor Bridge), the fireworks presentation played to the theme of "Embrace." A million people viewed this fiery display from vantage points along the harbour or aboard boat cruises.

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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