the Travel Enthusiast
- 22 Nov
Top 5 crazy things to do in the New Year
photo by Dave Dyet
New Year’s parties can sometimes be crazy, and many people do things that they wouldn’t normally even dream of. After all, it’s the end of the year, so it deserves to be celebrated in style! But what about after sleeping off the party craziness and the possible hangovers?
Going back to your daily routine is a boring start for the year, so you might as well continue with doing something even more crazy. To start you off for a great year full of amazing travel experiences, you should begin by doing something unusual. Here are our top 5 crazy things to do in the New Year.
Sleep in the desert
Watching the first sunrise of the year in the desert is not a bad start for 2012, but if you won’t make it to Sahara to celebrate the night between years, doing something like this should be at the top of your to-do list. Still, huddling in a Bedouin tent or watching the stars next to a campfire while everything is quiet around you will make your appreciate life and all the possibilities of the coming year in a completely new way. There’s still time to book a desert tour for New Year’s Eve – or soon after!
Travel Solo
photo by mtsrs
Celebrating the New Year with friends and family never gets old, but if you craze the rush of excitement of a new experience, then maybe going on a solo trip isn’t a bad idea at all.
You can either reflect on the great things you did in 2011 in one of the most amazing places on the planet, or maybe party with complete strangers who could become lifelong friends. In any case, the New Year is a time for reflection too, not just crazy parties, and what better way to do it then doing what you do best – travel?
Midnight skydiving
If you like extreme sports and a healthy adrenaline rush beats any parties in your book, then there’s no reason to lay low on New Year’s night. After that, you can even brag that weren’t on the planet at midnight. Skydive City in Florida organizes tandem skydiving drops at New Year’s, and if you can convince any of your friends and family to join you, you can see the lights of the city or the fireworks from up in the air while others are having vanilla fun on the ground.
Go dog-sledding in Lapland
This might not work if you want to do something right at the turn of the year instead of after it, although it’s not excluded that you might be able to arrange something to spend the New Year in a dog sled surrounded by a winter wonderland. But even if you choose to do this in the early days of 2012, a dog-sledding trip in Santa-Claus’s homeland is nothing if not unusual, especially if you’ve never done something like this before.
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travel search by Travelgrove (get this widget)Sunrise at Mt Fuji
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Mount Fuji is an amazing sight any time of the day or year, and if you want to see a stunning view that will stay with you the rest of your life, then why not spend the first morning of 2012 watching as the rays of the rising sun envelop the mountain?
There are plenty of resorts in the area where you can celebrate during the night (or maybe attend one of the crazy New Year’s Eve parties in Tokyo), and then you can head with your camera and a thermos of hot coffee to the base of the mountain for a memorable morning.
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