Adelaide: Enthusiastic Australians camped out at parks alongside the Sydney Bridge to find the best view of the New Year’s Eve fireworks, beginning celebrations around the world.
As the clock ticked closer to 2011, cities across Asia readied for midnight events. Europeans were looking forward to celebrations that could help them forget their economic worries.
Nearly a million revelers were expected to cram into the streets around Times Square, New York City, to see the traditional midnight ball drop.
At least 1.5 million people are expected to line the harbor in Sydney, the first major city where the New Year arrives.
Celebrations begin with aerial displays by vintage aircraft and a parade of bont years, the Western influence has started seeping into Vietnamese culture with teens, who have no memory of war or poverty and are eager to find a new reason to party in the Communist country.
In South Korea, up to 100,000 people are expected to come out for a bell-ringing ceremony in central Seoul, with officials and citizens striking the large bronze bell hung in the Bosingak bell pavilion 33 times at midnight.
Some South Koreans also go to the mountains or beaches on early Saturday to watch the first sunrise of the New Year.
At midnight in Taipei, fireworks will form a spiraling dragon climbing up the city’s tallest skyscraper. Dozens of dancers will beat drums in the freezing cold river in a dance to underscore how people should live with nature in harmony.
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