Interesting ideas how to celebrate the New Year - 2022: what to do on New Year's Eve

3 creative ideas to celebrate New Year’s Eve differently than usual

December 26, 2021, 22:50 MSC

Let's celebrate New Year's Eve in a different way than usual

Fans of adventure and experimentation will definitely love our options.

A festive feast, watching New Year’s movies, fireworks – the classic New Year’s genre. We offer to depart from tradition and celebrate the New Year in a different way. When else, if not on the most magical day, to try something new? Here are three unusual ideas.

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We recommend adventure seekers and fans of all things New Year’s Eve in the Arctic Circle. First of all, Murmansk is the largest city beyond the Arctic Circle. Secondly, here you can taste the freshest and tastiest sea delicacies straight from the northernmost and coldest ocean on the planet. Thirdly, the luckiest of the lucky ones will successfully hunt for a unique phenomenon that takes your breath away – the aurora borealis.

A pleasant bonus will be a walk along the shore of the Arctic Ocean, riding on huge Arctic swings and endlessly warm hugs with mischievous huskies. To find yourself on the border of three countries and in three time zones at once in the fabulous atmosphere of Russian Lapland is a unique experience that is worth experiencing at least once in your life.

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Meet the New Year consciously and ecologically

The holiday at home can also take place in an unusual way – all you need to do is introduce a few new traditions. For example, you can refuse an artificial Christmas tree, which decomposes for about 200-400 years. And do not buy a live cut down for a few days, and rent a natural one, giving it a second life after the holidays. Such a tree will be brought to you from a nursery, and then taken away and planted back in the ground, so that it will continue to grow and absorb carbon dioxide, curbing the rate of global warming.

Daria: Refusing to buy new synthetic tinsel, plastic clappers and non-recyclable Bengal lights would also be a great idea and a real concern for the environment. Want an unusual atmosphere? Meet the New Year by candlelight, as in the XIX century – without gadgets and electricity. For the sharpness of sensations refuse alcohol, and on January 1 start with a brisk workout in the open air – freshness of impressions is guaranteed!

Get in touch with traditions of other nations

New Year in Baikal in the Buryat style is a holiday that is sure to be remembered. Although the Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, falls on the first spring new moon according to the lunar calendar, nothing prevents you from celebrating the holiday on the night from December 31 to January 1 with observance of good ancient traditions. One of the main customs is a special rite of cleansing Gutor to get rid of all the failures and bad experiences of the year.

Daria: Make a figure of a man out of red dough in advance, and at the end of the dinner throw it away with the rest of the food, candle and coins on the vacant lot by the road. Evil spirits will get a ransom and will not return to the house next year. After that, in the first days of January on the roof of the house or on a tree nearby you can hang the image of the “horse of wind of good luck”, symbolizing health, happiness and prosperity.

It is worth mentioning separately about the festive table in the best Buryat traditions – it is a rich soup from Siberian fish, nourishing noodle soup shulen and the famous buuzi. By the way, the first ice on Baikal is already rising, so you can celebrate the holiday right on the lake, having an open-air feast.