EVE - the festivities will begin in Oceania ...
Sydney promised to engulf the southern sky in an orgy of pyrotechnics Tuesday for the transition to the year 2014 of the Christian era , but it is Dubai that offer the "biggest " fireworks in the world .
Tons of explosives will be sent immense multicolored bunches from 9:00 p.m. ( 11:00 in Paris), at the foot of the Sydney Opera House for the first time in over ten years.
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The festivities , which are expected to 1.6 million people , cost 6 million dollars ( 3.8 million euros) , according to the mayor of the city in Australia , Clover Moore. The award, he said, " the most beautiful New Year's Eve around the world, in the most beautiful harbor in the world ."
Thousands of tourists had already gathered yesterday on this site be sure to be at the forefront . "We got the last front row seats , we were lucky ," welcomed Lena Winkels , from Germany with his girlfriend Nine Doerr .
Dubai, which has just been awarded the organization of Expo 2020 is also preparing to December 31 of the excess with a firework display that must illuminate the sky of the emirate for six minutes.
No less than 400,000 projectiles must be derived from the artificial island Palm Jumeirah and The World, 300 islands that represent a world map off the city-state .
By fireworks shot 400 launch sites and will mobilize 200 technicians , the emirate hopes to enter the Guinness Book of Records , officials said , without specifying the cost of the show.
Dubai intends to consolidate its status as a tourist destination through multiple projects, some Pharaohs , as the world 's tallest tower , Burj Khalifa , which rises to 828 meters.
Mandela 's life in 3D
In Cape Town, will be honored Nelson Mandela , who died Dec. 5 , with a concert, fireworks and 3D projection on the façade of the Town Hall , a photographic retrospective of the life of Nobel Prize of peace.
In France , New Year's Eve will be under strict surveillance with nearly 9,000 policemen, firefighters and soldiers mobilized. The transition to the new year in the capital traditionally attracts hundreds of thousands of people gathered mainly on the Champs- Elysees, Trocadero and Champ -de -Mars , opposite the Eiffel Tower.
Prefectural police invited the public not to go to Paris in personal vehicles and use public transport to be made available in the evening.
In New Caledonia ( Pacific ), the High Commissioner of the French Republic said Tuesday AFP be " vigilant " but " serene " for Christmas Eve , fueling rumors of incidents. The year 2014 marks the beginning of the last term of the decolonization process of the Nouméa Accord , in which a self-determination referendum must be organized. Provincial elections were held on May 4
As we approach the January 1 , websites ignited , peddling rumors " raids youth" that would "break the White Noumea ."
Cariocas in Rio , red square in Riyadh
In New York, a million revelers in Times Square to accompany the traditional down for 60 seconds until midnight, a ball of multicolored crystal along a pylon.
They will be nearly 2.3 million , a third of tourists on Copacabana beach in Rio to attend the famous fireworks and outdoor concerts .
According to the city of Rio , the traditional fireworks show Eve , starting at midnight, will last 16 minutes. Some 24,000 rockets , weighing 24 tons , will be launched 11 boats moored at 400 m from the beach, as a safety measure .
Cariocas ( Rio residents ) , mostly dressed in white, then make their offerings ( flowers ) to Yemanja , goddess of the sea of Candomblé , the Afro-Brazilian religion.
In Saudi Arabia , however , the religious police warned against any celebration in the ultra-conservative kingdom that applies a strict version of Islam and follows the calendar of the Hegira .
Members of the religious police were particularly addressed to florists and gift sellers , asking them not to sell red roses, teddy bears or other gift that could be related to the occasion.
In the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh ( northwest ) which applies sharia, the religious police seized thousands of firecrackers after the ban , for the first time, New Year celebrations deemed ' haram ' ( unclean ) .
The people of Tonga in the Pacific will be among the first to enter the new year.
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