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New Year's Eve Destinations
Off The Beaten Track

Istanbul, Turkey

In Turkey, New Year’s Eve (or Yeni Yıl in Turkish) is a day traditionally spent at home with family. The NYE celebrations in Istanbul seem to grow every year and in recent years, the people of Istanbul have taken to the streets around Taksim Square and Bağdat Caddesi for a citywide street celebration. Street parties pop up all over the city, but the biggest, complete with DJs, bands and light shows, is at Nisantasi’s Abdi Ipekçi Avenue. Crowds gather here from about 10pm.

There are heaps of restaurants offering a New Year’s Eve dinner and entertainment package, but they can be expensive, so if you’re on a budget maybe grab your champagne and watch the fireworks on the main avenue, Abdi İpekçi Caddesi. A more low-key street party is underneath the Galata Tower, where you can party with young locals and expats. For a truly local experience, visit Burgazada, the third largest of the Princes’ Islands, where you will see bonfire parties around the pier.

The city puts on a sensational fireworks display at midnight, and the best place to see the show is at Taksim Square. NYE is also a time to hit the local bars for shots of raki and dancing until the early hours. And, as the Turks say “Mutlu yıllar”, or Happy New Year.

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Cape Town, South Africa

While New Year's Eve might hold the best parties, Cape Town's real festivities kick off on New Year's Day, when the "Kaapse klopse," or Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, hits the streets. At this Carnival there are parades and performances with thousands of traditional dancers, marching musicians and of course costumed minstrels. The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival dates back to the 19th-century slave trade and New Year’s Day was traditionally the one day of the year the slaves were given a day off.

However, like most parts of the world there is no need to wait until New Year’s Day to start partying though as there is plenty of NYE festivals, concerts and events happening in Cape Town to keep the city pumping well past the strike of midnight.

The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront hosts a music concert and midnight fireworks display. The Victoria Falls New Year's Carnival includes a carnival-themed train, live music and plenty of entertainment. DJs in the Cape Quarter keep parties goers entertained until the early hours of the morning.

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Beirut, Lebanon

A Beirut New Year's Eve has a fireworks display and pumping nightclubs, as well as Orthodox Christian neighbourhoods smashing china or letting off celebratory gunfire. The city's hub on NYE is Nejmeh Square or Place de l'Etoile in the downtown area. This area is link of pedestrian streets that meet around an iconic 1930s clock tower outside the houses of parliament. In Beirut for New Year’s Eve you can expect happy crowds from all over the world celebrating together in massive street party. At midnight, a huge firework display occurs around the Port of Beirut. After midnight head to the party avenue Gemmayzeh where there are some bars to keep you going until late. If you want to say Happy New Year to a Lebanese person, it is “Kil sana wa enta bi kheir”.

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Goa, India

Ok, so this place is really off the beaten track for your New Year’s Eve celebration. Goa was famous as hippie paradise in the 1960s and now Goa seems to use New Year's Eve to keep its free-living reputation alive. Backpackers flock here for psychedelic trance raves in the open air and one of the best places to go is "The Hill Top". Goa is also a favourite NYE destination for Indian Bollywood stars, whose New Year’s Eve antics are often reported in the tabloid newspapers afterwards. The locals in Goa generally keep to their own traditions with New Year's Eve balls in nearly every village. The local custom is to drink something called “fenny”, which is a drink made from guava, coconut or cashew nuts.