Rio de Janeiro New Year 2007 Celebration
1 Jan 2007
This is a very cool 360 degress photo taken at Rio de Janeiro during the New Year 2007 Celebration..
Click here to view, you need Quicktime to view this awesome photo.
The Rio de Janeiro New Years Celebrations at Copacabana beach are the largest in the world with around 2 million people on the beach.
AYRTON writes:
It was a total of 22 minutes of pyrotechnics, consuming more than 19.000 bombs, in a total of 24 tons of powder. To prevent accidents, the fireworks were launched from 8 (eight) rafts spread by the sea of Copacabana beach, winthin 360 meters of distance of the sand. Also the big yatchs and transatlantics were at another 360 meters away from the rafts. They come from all over the world with lots of tourists from Europe, USA, and Asia. The spetacle cost 1,8 million Reais, or something around 1 million dollars.
This year there was only one stage for musicians but with 36 installed towers of sound all along the beach with a very high volume to make everybody happy and dancing.
Because of the rain all day long there was less people than expected, but it’s still a big event with almost 2 million people dressing in white, crying, yelling, and praying for a New Year with happiness, peace, money and love 
Source : http://www.panoramas.dk/new-year-2007/rio-de-janeiro.html
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We were there on Copacabana beach on NYE, and the fireworks were a lot longer than 22 minutes. We have the whole show on video, and it was spectacular! We loved the band. We think the name of the band was Tapa Jaula, but we’re not certain. If anyone out there knows the name for sure, we’d love to know. Also, if anyone got a good video of the band, we’d love to see that too.
Yes, it was drizzling all day, but for most of the evening we were able to lose the rain ponchos and dance, drinking Skol beer and Caiparhina’s w/ vodka. It was like being at the biggest New Year’s party in the world.
If anyone wants to swap pictures or video, email us at 1hdtvguy@sbcglobal.net.
New Years is fantastic with all it´s fireworks, what I love most is how you can feel a positive vibe slowly building up as you close in on midnight. It´s nice to see that such big groups of people can share the same space with relatively little hassle.
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