Whether you celebrated the New Year by partying with a group of friends, cheering with family members or sitting on your couch with a can of spray-cheese and your cat while watching all of the lovers on television kiss as the famous crystal ball fell to the ground in New York, nothing can compare to these New Year celebrations.
1. New Year’s in Dubai
This Persian Gulf city set a Guinness World Record for having the largest firework display ever. According to the Daily News, 500,000 fireworks were set off of the world’s tallest tower, Burj Kahlifa, to welcome the New Year.
Photo from NY Daily News
2. Party like a Brit
The Huffington Post reports that London pulled off the biggest New Year party of the year, with more than 250,000 people overflowing the banks of the Thames River and its surrounding restaurants and bars to view all of the night’s excitement. There was a 10 minute lightshow and firework display as the epic countdown began. Following the timer, a three-hour parade took over the streets of central London.
Photo from the Huffington Post
3. Getting Down in the Down Under
Sydney, one of the first cities to experience the New Year, impressed everyone with their enormously extravagant lightshow that glowed above the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Entertainment filled the night following the countdown. Entertainment included several aerial acrobatics and an Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking ceremony, a ceremony that is said to cleanse the evil spirits of the past year.
Photo from the Huffington Post
4. What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas
Over on the west coast, 300,000 people celebrated the New Year in the party capital. Live bands, fireworks, pyrotechnic displays and laser shows lined the car-free streets. Iconic artists like The Killers, Pitbull and the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the stage to bring in the New Year.
Photo from the Huffington Post
5. Party in the City of Lights
The New Year’s celebration in New York is iconic—almost everyone watches the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop, an event in which a 12-foot glittering sphere of crystal drops from a flagpole on the top of One Times Square. Music, fireworks and celebrities crowd the city for this spectacular event.
Photo from the Huffington Post