Fireworks have been ringing out across the globe over the past 24 hours for New Year’s Eve.
The planet celebrating. If countries celebrated the New Year at different intervals depending on time zones, the festive cocktail was the same: pyrotechnics show, traditional countdown and cry of joy.
The people of the Pacific celebrated New Year’s Eve first. The Kiribati Islands and New Zealand got the ball rolling 13 hours ahead of France. Then Australia followed.
More than a million revelers gathered on the foreshore of Sydney, the self-proclaimed “New Year’s Capital of the World”, to admire the grandiose fireworks display above the Harbor Bridge and the Sydney Opera House.
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbor Bridge and the Sydney Opera House (left) during New Year’s celebrations in Sydney, January 1, 2024. – IZHAR KHAN / AFP
Asian countries were the next to enter the new year. Hong Kong and even Seoul in South Korea shone brightly.
People gather for a countdown to celebrate the New Year in central Seoul before midnight on December 31, 2023. – JUNG YEON-JE / AFP Traditional South Korean dancers take part in a parade as part of the countdown New Year’s Eve in central Seoul, before midnight, December 31, 2023. – JUNG YEON-JE / AFP
Fireworks also exploded above the skyscrapers of Dubai with the Burj Khalifa tower at the center of attention, or above the Parthenon in Athens.
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the tallest building in the world, is illuminated in Dubai at midnight on New Year’s Eve, January 1, 2024. – RYAN LIM / AFP
In Paris, the traditional show on the Champs-Élysées attracted nearly 800,000 people. For the occasion, 6,000 police officers and gendarmes were deployed in the streets of Paris.
Before the fireworks, a “video mapping” was projected on the Arc de Triomphe, with the main theme being the 2024 Olympic Games planned for Paris.
People gather on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées for New Year’s celebrations in Paris, December 31, 2023. – BERTRAND GUAY / AFPFireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe with “2024” projected, on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées during New Year’s celebrations in Paris, early January 1, 2024. – BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
Then head to the American continent. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, thousands of people gathered on Copacabana beach to the rhythm of Samba steps. Dressed in white, Brazilians bathe in the ocean, throwing rose petals and even jewelry.
People celebrate the traditional New Year’s fireworks display on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 1, 2024. – TERCIO TEIXEIRA / AFP
In New York in the United States, thousands of onlookers awaited the traditional descent of the crystal ball in Times Square, all lit up, and merchants sold vuvuzelas and hats stamped 2024.
The last to burst the champagne were the Tahitians and the Hawaiians when it was already 11 a.m. in mainland France.
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