He was dancing on the beach at the time, at the tail end of the massive new year party on Haad Rin beach, which had attracted tens of thousands of mostly young foreign tourists.

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It kicks off with a beach party and culminates with a Caribbean-style Fat Tuesday of dinner, dancing and a live steel band on a white sand beach.

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She goes dancing at places like the Naples Beach Hotel and Bond.

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Yet the commercial shot for South Africa shows young white things jet-skiing about and dancing in discos in Cancun and Miami Beach.

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On the final day of the celebrations the idols are paraded to Chowpatty Beach, where they are immersed in the Arabian Sea, accompanied by singing, dancing and drumming.

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