Celebrate the New Year in Turkey - double pleasure.Firstly, you can celebrate this joyous date without salad "Olivier" and other, hackneyed, traditional decorations, and secondly, to discover the unknown for most tourists the country.After all, come here mainly in the summer.Winter is Turkey offers tourists a lot more fun.And one of them - shout when midnight strikes, «Mutlu Yillar!», Make a wish and have a glass of brandy mixed with soda (turns milky drink, vaguely reminiscent of champagne).
New Year in Turkey began to celebrate not so long ago - in 1935.Political leader and head of state Ataturk decreed that the Republic is developing successfully only when it is secular.To meet the coming year it began in 1926, but since then the country has lived under the Julian calendar, a holiday celebrated on the first Saturday of January.Initially, the Turks are not common especially honored that day, but later were drawn.Now, in any small town or village in late December required to decorate houses, streets and shop windows.Most of the Turkish Muslim decorating a Christmas tree at home, although this custom, and is credited with Christian roots.
more traditional New Year celebrated in Turkey AH - the Muslim lunar calendar.But this holiday is a "floating date" basically has a religious significance, whereas the night of December 31 to January 1, filled with laughter, fun and gifts.Particularly fond of this festival children: for them at this time, as well as to kids from other countries, comes Noel Baba (Father Christmas) and brings gifts.In general, in recent decades, thanks to television, the Turks are increasingly copying the European tradition: everywhere sold postcards, Christmas sales are carried out, and the family gathered around the table to eat stuffed turkey.
Intending to celebrate the New Year in Turkey, do not expect that this will be the budget: a holiday - he is a holiday to fork.Where to go to have fun with all the heart in this enchanting night?On the largest scale celebrations held in Ankara, Istanbul, and in the towns and villages of the Mediterranean Riviera.There is another option - ski resorts in Turkey (yes, there are!), Where, as on the coast, practiced system "all inclusive".
Partly most fun and emancipation in Istanbul are the areas Pera, Kadikoy, Sultanahmet, Taksim.Many hotels for their guests organize a gala dinner.City overrun by tourists, who came to celebrate the New Year in Turkey.Reviews delighted to mention that you can spend the night on board the boat, sliding on smooth surface of the Bosphorus.It offers a festive meal and show program.By the way, New Year's fireworks are best admired from the sea.
Those who chose the place for the Christmas holidays the Mediterranean Riviera, are not lost.Weather in Turkey for the New Year is significantly different from ours, and for the better.There are, however, the rain, but the air is that the heat and the sea - even warmer.If you are uncomfortable swimming at 20, in the territory of luxury hotels have heated pools, hammams and other spa treatments.Another "trick" is to mark the holiday of Christmas lottery.Turks - people gambling and lotteries are held constant.However, at the end of December it is announced a special prize - a very significant amount.Some hotels in a New Year gift to its customers buy lottery tickets in batches.It is possible that waking up on January 1st, you will find in your room a "happy voucher".
