New Year's 2009 Fireworks World-Wide

All around the world people celebrated the New Year. In many cities, From Sydney to New York and Auckland to London, revellers greeted 2009 with pyrotechnic shows and street parties.
Some 400,000 people braved freezing temperatures in London for a fireworks display beside the Thames.
In New York almost a million people packed a freezing Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball descended to cheers at midnight. the celebrations included fireworks, parades, parties and other festivities.

Whether you spent the night letting loose and enjoying the fireworks, parting at a friend’s house, dancing your heart out at a club, or quietly ringing in the New Year with friends and family…most likely, people all over the globe were virtually doing the same thing! I did say i was going to bring you guys pictures of how the world celebrated THE NEW YEAR-JANUARY 1ST in their country...(after all, the world is bigger than Nigeria and ...i dare say that in Nigeria, we are yet to fully understand the way to celebrate the New Year...)Here is a list of some of the best New Years Eve events around the world:



1. NEW YORK CITY'S annual Times Square celebration
The famous ball drop atop One Times Square has been a tradition dating back to 1906. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people descend upon Times Square to experience this free event. As usual, this year was no exception...creative fire works in its best of forms.

2. Fireworks from the LONDON Eye Since 2003, London has celebrated New Year's Eve with amazing fireworks, organized by the Mayor of London and renowned pyrotechnician Christophe Berthonneau. Launched from the 442ft London Eye, the spectacular ten-minute fireworks showed one of the best fireworks displays in Europe projecting beautiful colors and lights across the capital in celebration of the New Year.

3. Picnic at the Champs Elysées in PARIS: The Champs Elysées is the top choice for a New Years Eve celebration in Paris. From many places on the Champs-Elysees, you can get a good view of the Eiffel Tower, which sparkles with light and fireworks at the stroke of midnight. Trust the french, even with fireworks, the spark of 'fashion' and 'romance' is never lost.

4. On the beach in RIO DE JANEIRO: New Year's Eve in Rio, or Reveillon, is one of the biggest events of the year. The main party takes place along Copacabana beach, with over two million people partying and enjoying an eclectic mix of fireworks, samba and bands that celebrate African, Christian and indigenous traditions. Well you know how the samba guys do it...they every way blow your mind all along the way. Personally, am looking forward to being part of a new year in this Gods country...lol...is that a tall dream???

5. Tolling of the bell in MOSCOW:
New Year's Eve, or Noivy God as it is in Russian, is celebrated by gathering in the Red Square to await the tolling of the Saviour clocktower, As New Year arrived, people took to the streets and went calling on friends and neighbours, celebrating until dawn.

6. Dance the night away in CAPE TOWN: Cape Town hosted one of the country's biggest bashes with fireworks, music, dancing and more at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Complex, a restored historic fishing terminal with chic restaurants and bars. The southerners did it their way, the way they know how to do it best.

7. Light Parade and Midnight Fireworks in SYDNEY: Sydney offers a Harbour of Light Parade, where 55 vessels made their way around a 15km circuit on Sydney Harbour. At midnight Sydney bursted the night sky open with kaleidoscopic colour and shapes. This spectacular show took place in the world’s best open theatre - fireworks firing from six barges on Sydney Harbour, seven skyscraper rooftops and across the iconic arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

8. Raise the Red Lantern in SHANGHAI
The Chinese New Year Festival in Shanghai is celebrated usually on the first day of the year of the lunar calendar. In a way that is ever unique and exciting, the chinese made their point went went into history as one of the organisers of the best New year celebrations.

Yup! thats it...pictures from major cities around the world and how each country celebrated the NEW YEAR with fireworks, parades, parties and much more...

I hope that by next year, Nigeria would have done enough to be on the map...

cheers!