Dubai had an array of firework shows to celebrate the New Year, Guinness World Records were achieved and thousands flocked to venues across the country to witness the explosive displays.
It has been announced that firework displays will continue to run until January 29, 2023 for the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF). The opening celebrations took place across six locations including Al Seef, Dubai Frame, Burj Al Arab, Dubai Creek, Dubai Festival City Mall, Bluewaters and The Beach, JBR.
More shows are to follow every night until the end of the month, free to attend.
Firework show schedule:
- 2-8 January – Dubai Festival City Mall at 9 PM
- 9-15 January – Bluewaters at 8:30 PM
- 9-15 January – The Beach, JBR at 8:30 PM
- 16-22 January – Dubai Festival City Mall at 9 PM
The Dubai Shopping Festival will take place until January 29, 2023.
For New Year’s Eve, multiple firework shows took place across the country,
Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah hosted a world record-breaking firework display to usher in 2023, reports WAM.
Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Festival welcomed more than one million visitors to Al Wathba to bring in the New Year with a firework display and drone show that broke four Guinness World Records.
The festival grounds were filled spectators to witness a drone and firework shows, which lasted for around 60 minutes for the first time in the region and was documented by the Guinness World Records.
Ras Al Khaimah, already the holder of several world records for its renowned fireworks performances, welcomed 2023 with a mesmerising pyro-musical show, smashing two Guinness World Records titles.
The first world record title was the “largest number of operated multi-rotors/drones with a simultaneous fireworks display” with a record-breaking 671 operated drones in the air.
It also set a new world record for the “largest aerial sentence formed by multirotor/drones” created with 673 drones.
In Dubai, Burj Khalifa had 828m of fireworks, 2,500 firing directions, 287 firing positions and 4,000 watts of lasers in the Burj Khalifa New Year’s Eve firework display.
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