9 Unique Destinations to celebrate New Year’s in 2011

This New Year’s Eve, let go of the tired, old balls in Times Square and grow a new pair. Let’s see the 9 unique destinations to celebrate this New Year 2011…

Fireworks: Prague

  

Swagger the avenues like Kafka on acid in Prague. The citizens are gracious, backpackers are all over the place and parties spill into the streets and terraces. The huge draws here are the fireworks put on view along the Charles River. If you’ve saved your pennies for the big night, for a cool $150 bucks you can put your name down for a spot on the Party Boat to get in the center of the action. If floating fancy is too moneyed for your blood, you can glimpse the midnight fireworks boom over the Prague Castle as of the Charles Bridge for free. Take on your weasel-like maneuvering talents, it will be crowded.

Nosiest: Philippines:

Children and hellraisers gust on toy horns called Torotot on Dec. 31. By means of sufficient firecrackers to end off every scarce species on the planet, the Filipinos ring in the New Year with the most exasperating sounds known to man. Polka-dots and pockets full of change are the provincial outfit for good luck. Dig up grandma’s Christmas sweater, chuck some metal in your pockets and jingle with thoughtless abandon. The midnight hour is greeted by loud feasting, drinking and gambling.

Desert Party: Dubai

Toke a hookah into the midnight sky this year. Once well-known for banning the celebration totally, Dubai’s associations have nil on the well-known desert safari party. Granted, this thing costs 399 Dirhams (about $100 bucks) but you find an open bar, quite a lot of desert BBQ stations, belly dance shows, sheesha-smoking till you throttle and, intended for the pyro in all of us, some astonishing fire-entertainment. 

The Most Off-Schedule: Spain

Spaniards are tarnished for taking their sweet time to begin the party. While some celebrations do start on time people typically hang at home with family awaiting midnight and the genuine party naturally starts approximately 12:30 a.m. Get even further off-schedule by heading for Berchules, where New Year’s happens twice (in mid-August, as well as on Dec. 31). Spain obtains five stars for celebrations like there’s no tomorrow…and doing it all over again when tomorrow unavoidably comes.

Longest: Taiwan

One night not enough for you greedy NYE-loving party freaks? Party for a month in Taiwan is not enough. This isle of plenty is all about the Lunar New Year, so do the Gregorian party Jan 1 before heading to Taiwan intended for some lunar action. Lion dancers, firecrackers and rituals spot the coming of the Chinese New Year to guarantee luck and many lays for the year to come. Join in a game of street Mahjong and chink glasses in the rouse of dragons and sporadic gunpowder.

Sporty(ish) New Year: Croatia:

Croatia’s New Year’s festivities roll hard all the way through the country. A new rambler preferred is in Split (Croatia’s second largest city) and its big attraction happens for the period of New Year’s Day on January 1st, at Bacvice beach. It’s called Picigin, an entertainment where men, flooded in ass-icicle cold water, strive to pass a slight rubber ball in the region of without letting it hit the water. Go to sleep early as possible on New Year’s Eve (say 9 pm) so that you are able to keep your well-rested eye on that modest ball for hours in the morning. If you just can’t fall snoozing at grandma’s bedtime, might as well take a little walk to Club Vanilla, perhaps party for 10-12 hours to exhaust yourself for the big entertainment; have some sparkling wine, kiss a couple locals, whatever it takes.

Most Confused: Turkey

New Year’s is the only American show famous in Turkey all through the holiday season. As holiday celebrations are fed to Turkey via globalized media, people in Istanbul habitually mystify New Year’s with Christmas, Thanksgiving or whatever-the- ghetto-cowboy- holiday. This turns Dec. 31 into a rompin’ tragedy worth witnessing. Rejoice Christmas with a New Year’s tree and a spooky pumpkin Easter pie. Citizens still countdown the clock and party late night however the streamers and festivities are less like customary New Year’s and more like a squashed up holiday cocktail of sheer confusion. Moralize the appropriate way to celebrate or keep your mouth shut and take pleasure in the messed up fun.

Best Beach Celebrations: Sri Lanka

No longer just fun to say, Sri Lanka is a great place to stopover for a warm spin on New Year’s. By tradition, Sinhalese New Year’s is celebrated by rasping yourself down with plants when the moon moves out of Aries (in April). By December 31st, Sri Lankans are high-quality and enclosed in plant matter and prepared to celebrate with the rest of the world. Parties along Unawatuna beach bluster up for NYE and make the Maldives insanely envious. Get there a few days in the early hours to safe a spot at the beach hostel. Temps are in the 80s and if you can pry your eyes open the next day, go observe the elephants starting the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage take their every day bath in the river (10 a.m. or 2 p.m.)

Biggest Party: Valparaiso, Chile

This coastal city throbs the entire night at Plaza Sotomayor, by means of raucous sprays of Chilean cheerful and multihued confetti. A central stage is set up with live piece of music that goes until breakfast (8am ish) and exert a pull on approximately a shit ton of people. Comprised of about 40 tons of explosives (roughly equivalent to 6-7 elephants), the nearby fireworks last for about 20 minutes. The climate in January is humid (the whole other hemisphere thing) and sleeping on the streets is completely tolerable. Basically, this party is HUGE so look forward to crowds, groping and plenty of midnight besitosfrom other travelers.