How to survive New Year's Eve in Sydney, Australia

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Sydney's New Year's Eve celebration is the $7.2 million extravaganza that shoves it to most of the world. Set on the beautiful Sydney Harbour, 1.6 million people watch on as the 9 p.m. and midnight fireworks light up the sky with 100,000 pyrotechnic effects, 11,000 shells and 25,000 shooting comets

It is the things dreams and sore necks are made of — if you are sober enough to see it.

Locals and tourists pack like sardines into the city's vantage points, forgetting the hell of the year before, to cheers a stranger and watch a vomiting middle-aged woman who popped the champagne cork a little too early Read more...

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