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Lunar New Year Fireworks

Chinese New Year Fireworks Display is around for many years.  It takes place on the second night of lunar new year above the Victoria Harbour at 8p.m.  The 20 minutes fireworks display attract both families and photographers every year, so if you want a good spot for watching or especially taking pictures, you need to arrive an hour or two early.

Good places to watch fireworks: As the fireworks were fired from boats outside Wanchai, the best place to see it is along the coast of Tsim Sha Tsui, Central, Admiralty and WanChai.  I think Hung Hom may also be alright but I have never tried.  If you are a tourist, stay in one of these hotels and have a sea view, you may be able to see it comfortably in your own room or top floor of your hotel: the Peninsula Hotel, Salisbury YMCA, the Marco Polo Hotel HK, Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong, Grand Hyatt,  and someone claim that you can even see it in Harbour Plaza Hong Kong Hotel in Hung Hom.

In order to control the crowd, the police usually blocked the bridges or set up fences such that limited number of people can stay on the bridge.  Even the second floor of Star Ferry Pier in Central which normally opens to public for scenery viewing will be closed on that night.

After all, the best place to watch may be sitting at home or your hotel room and turn on the tv.  It's broadcast live and accompanied with traditional Chinese music.

Traffic control: All ferry services (ferries to outlying islands or between Hong Kong Island to Kowloon) will stop at around 7p.m. to make way for the fireworks until it's finished.

  Huge crowds gather to wait

The fireworks are very impressive

If you are by the harbour then you can hear the loud explosions

It is a good firework show

Other Chinese New Year Activities

• Watch Chinese lunar new year parade
• Visit new year flower market

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