New Year's Eve 2012 Celebration Kicks Off Around The World

posted on: Dec 31, 2012

Sydney will Monday kick off a wave of dazzling firework displays welcoming in 2013 from Dubai to Paris and London, with long-isolated Yangon joining the global pyrotechnics for the first time.

Australia’s famous harbour city will usher in the New Year with a Aus$6.6 (US$6.9) million display curated by pop icon Kylie Minogue who designed the colour scheme and soundtrack.

“Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are world-famous and reach over a billion people — not just because we have the first major display for 2013, but because it’s the best,” said the city’s lord mayor Clover Moore.

City officials are expecting more than 1.5 million people to crowd the waterfront to watch the seven tonnes of fireworks go up, including crackers launched from jet-skis and a show-stopping finale on the Harbour Bridge.

This year sees an interactive twist with smartphone users able to download an app which will colour their screens. Held aloft, en masse, the devices will create their own show along the shore.

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Amy Coopes
The Huffington Post