Hong Kong's dazzling East Asian Games fireworks display

Foto set of the spectacular opening of Hong Kong's East Asian Games with plenty of fireworks display. The city launched the East Asian Games in impressive and costly style, impressing hundreds of thousands of onlookers and tourists with a water-borne show on Victoria Harbour that concluded with yet another amazing fireworks display and night floats.



















The East Asian Games runs Dec 5-13 and is the first major international multi-sport event to be held in Hong Kong. (Competition actually began Dec 2).

Over 2,300 athletes are competing for more than 262 gold medals across 22 sports. Nine teams are competing: China, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Guam and Mongolia.

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Text: CNN Go