17 Oct 2013
The 25th Macau International Fireworks Display Contest - the world's biggest competitive firework event - has come to a close with the team from France emerging as its winner. For 2013, this spectacular contest attracted 10 teams from across the globe - the first time teams from five continents had competed. Over a series of Saturday nights, the night skies of Macau were lit up with a dramatic and world class pyrotechnic shoot out to music.
France's impressive display, titled 'The Journey of Water', used outstanding special effects to evoke tiny meteorites hitting the earth, falling torrential rain, calm lakes and turbulent waterfalls. The French team's aim was to make the audience look up to the skies and imagine that they were seeing clouds, glaciers, rivers and the sea all set to a stirring soundtrack from award-winning films.
This special anniversary year saw teams from Australia, Canada, China, France, Italy, Korea, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Switzerland, competing for the crown of best firework display.
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About Macau:
Just 40 miles from Hong Kong, Macau is located on China's south coast and boasts a unique Portuguese-Chinese heritage that makes it like nowhere else in the world. It might be small but Macau packs a lot into its 11 square miles with an abundance of historical buildings, superb food, beaches, gardens, museums, spas, shopping malls, dazzling shows, and activities ranging from golf and hiking to bungy jumping. A Special Administrative Region
of China since 1999, Macau blends the best of the past with new and exciting tourism attractions.
About the Macau Government Tourist Office:
The Macau Government Tourist Office is the tourism development arm of the government of the Macau SAR (Special
Administrative Region) dedicated to promoting Macau as a preferred destination and co-ordinating related activities and services within the local tourism industry.
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