Ring in the New Year somewhere new: from Berlin to the Bahamas, these destinations know how to celebrate. These are the best places to spend New Year’s Eve 2022!
When the clock ticks all the way down in the middle of the night, huge crowds will gather in big squares in the center of towns all over the world, waiting for a shiny ball to descend and usher in the new year. It’s not just New York City, often described as the center of it all, where a ball drop has become a cultural icon.
Around this time of year, people everywhere begin planning their end-of-the-year vacations and what they will do. Of course, there are fireworks, block parties, dancing, and huge helpings of food and drink. Still, every destination has its personal cultural twists and one-of-a-kind things to do. In St. Petersburg, Russia, for example, people pack up to watch fireworks on top of the partially frozen river and launch paper lanterns up into the night sky.
Celebration kith and kin will stay out late in Reykjavik, Iceland, and then dress down for a dip in the city’s famous hot springs. Or maybe you want to join in the massive beach bash in Valparaiso, Chile. For luck in 2022, do like the Chileans do and wear yellow underwear, devour a dozen grapes in the hours of darkness, and put a 1,000 peso bill in your shoe.
Fireworks of course!
Beachfront firework shows explode with the dawn of the new year as everyone cheers! Kids love it and so do couples and families.
Whether or not you’d rather cozy up by the fireside with some delicious wine in Sonoma, CA, sing “Auld Lang Syne” on a lamp-lit tour through Edinburgh’s cobblestoned streets, or have a crazy celebration till the Sun comes up, there’s a perfect spot somewhere to start your new twelve months right. Let’s get our list started:
Valparaíso, Chile
What’s the celebration: The biggest new year’s eve show in Latin America takes place in the Valparaiso harbor with a 20-minute fireworks show (launched from 17 unique points along the coast among Valparaiso and Viña del Mar) and a dance birthday celebration that lasts until the sun comes up. The festivities start on the 28th, and by the 31st more than a million people have come to the city’s sandy beaches for the new year’s eve beach celebration to end them all. To make sure you have great luck in the new year, do as the locals do and wear yellow underwear, eat a dozen grapes at midnight, and put a 1,000 peso bill in your shoe.