New Years Eve in Chile

Chile has highly splendid and magnificent New Year celebrations. The New Years Eve in Chile is simply pleasurable, much supported by the pleasant climatic conditions.



When most part of the world is under extreme cold conditions during New year’s time, Chile has a comparatively pleasantly warm weather, which offers a respite to all those who have been otherwise skipping their New Year celebrations on the grounds of unsupportive cold weather.

Many people from around the world gather in different parts of Chile to be a part of some unforgettable moments created out of the modern day as well as traditional celebrations made in Chile on New Years Eve. With Christianity being the major religion of Chile, one can clearly sense its profound impact on the lives of natives, as well as the New Years Eve celebrations

Celebrations on New Years Eve in Chile

Usually, people prefer to major tourist spots of Chile during the New Year’s time, which host some of the best New Years Eve celebrations. Among those cities, the Santiago de Chile, Andacollo, and the entire capital city of Valparaiso are the most prominent ones.

Valparaiso has some beautiful seacoasts, which can offer some great comforting time till the time, New Years Eve arrives. The other popular destination is Easter Island. With the arrival of New Years Eve in Chile, almost everyone let looses himself in the whacking of exhilarating and jovial celebrations.

The capital city of Valparaiso hosts the best and biggest parties, and draws the maximum crowd of tourists in Chile than any other place. At the stroke of the midnight, a spectacular show of fireworks is the moment of celebration extremities, when everyone present around cheers out loud, make noises, and blow trumpets to mark their grand welcome to the New Year. Hugs and kisses are shared, tears are dropped for those who are not close, and then everyone shouts ‘Happy New Year’ in chord. Everyone pray and hope for a peaceful and prosperous year ahead for them and for everyone.

Fireworks show in Valparaiso is considered as the most majestic and the biggest fireworks show of Chile. Other than that, Torre Entel is another great place to be in to witness some splendid fireworks show. Throng of people comes in to these places, and therefore, it is not easy for everyone to get the best view, or get in it in the first place.

But before that, number of majestic parties and equally grand feasts hosted by the big and small pubs, restaurants, and clubs of the city, but also popular and not-so popular streets. It is successfully supported by the various rock bands performing live on the night, with thousands and more of the live and lively audience in attendance. Celebrations began on New Years Eve goes on whole night till the early hours of the first morning of the New Year. Some people do actually end up sleeping on the streets after a hectic New Years Eve celebration.

However, not everyone believes to bank their celebrations plan on social parties. Many people organize house feasts on New Years Eve, in which old and close friends, members of extended family, neighbors, and all those who are entitled to be called for, are invited. Before the stroke of midnight, they are served with the special feast which includes finest of champagne and wine, various salads, a well toasted barbeque, and a strawberry ice-cream as dessert.

Traditions on New Years Eve in Chile

Usually, just a few minutes before the New Year arrives, people tune in to radio to prominently have the voice of Julian Garcia Reyes. There is another tradition of running around with a suitcase in hand, with a belief that doing so confers one with lots of travelling in the coming year. Then, people ensure to have lentils and grapes, which have their respective benefits according to beliefs. There is an old tradition in Chile of setting off firecrackers on New Years Eve, after clock turns twelve. However, children out of their inability to resist for burning them, can be find engaged in it from the late evening.

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New Years Eve in Jamaica

New Year is one of the few celebrated times of the year in the lives of the people of Jamaica. New Years Eve in Jamaica is one big and extended celebrations time, which everyone willingly becomes a part of, for many varied purposes.



New Years Eve give them a reason to smile, to forget the troubles of the past, to be optimistic for the future, and more prominently, to put up a grand welcome to the New Year and equally grand welcome to the Old Year.

On New Years Eve, most of the government organizations, as well as businesses remain close. Therefore, one witnesses a throng of people making visits to the beautiful mountains and beaches of Jamaica, a country which is considered as the most beautiful of the entire Caribbean region.

Celebrations on New Years Eve in Jamaica

New Years Eve in Jamaica is about a lot of extravagant pompousness, gleam, and glitter. It is also a time to move out on short vacations to a nearby place, holding the beauty of the nature. The entire of Jamaica, and in particularly the major cities of it, are poured deep down in the celebration spirit, which not only concludes with the departure of New Years Eve, but extends for an entire month of January. Irrespective of their age or gender, everyone in Jamaica love to flaunt their happiness on their sleeves, and thus they do it in their very own special style. It is this unique style of celebrations on New Years Eve, and the ever smiling faces of Jamaican people, that draw people from all around the world to visit Jamaica during New Year’s time.

 

 
However, at the core of all these celebrations remains the significant aspect of spending quality and happy time with family and close friends. Apart from organizing highly vibrant parties at home, many other families move out to beautiful beaches to have their celebrations of New Years Eve. The luscious dishes served in the dinner, the music played during the entire evening, and the splendid show of fireworks at the stroke of midnight, synchronize the entire experience of New Years Eve on the beautiful beaches of Jamaica to make it an unforgettable one. Among these, the fireworks show is something, people eagerly await for, as it offers an unexplainably amazing sight.

 
Other than the beach parties and parties organized in private, many people prefer to be a part of more social celebrations by attending the special parties organize in restaurants, hotels, clubs, and villas. These usually are late night parties, which more often than not, get extended to the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. People dress up their best, put on their dance boots, and dance and cheer all through the night to express their pleasure for the moment.

 
Traditions on New Years Eve in Jamaica

In Jamaica, there is an old tradition of cleaning the house, and decorating it with flowers, plants, trees, and handicrafts. They also usually get the renovation work completed, and walls painted a little time before the arrival of the day of New Years Eve. Other than the houses, all the streets and buildings are also illuminated with lights and glittering decorative items. On the day of New Years Eve, people send out best wishes for the coming year to all their friends, including new and old ones, as well as all members of the extended family.

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New Years Eve in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is an amazingly beautiful island, and an incorporated territory of United States. It celebrates its New Year in concord with the rest of the United States on January 1. New Year is also referred as ‘Año Nuevo’ in Puerto Rico. New Years Eve, which is observed a day before on December 31, is a gala affair in Puerto Rico.



Puerto Rico has its most of the New Years Eve celebrations planned around family and friends. The real party begins in the late evening time.

The rest of the day on New Years Eve remains engaged in cleaning the house, preparing for the celebrations, washing cars, and sometimes even cleaning the neighborhood streets. Clean environment is a very important aspect of celebrations and New Years Eve in Puerto Rico. People hold a belief that the condition in which one keeps himself as well as the surrounding around during the time of the arrival of the New Year is the condition with which one will remain destined with for the rest of the year.

Therefore, people make sure to turn everything look clean, and also change anything, if it broken or damage or outmoded. Other than cleaning the house, the morning time on New Years Eve gets passed in decorating the house and street. One usually put up illuminating lights, along with sparkling silver and gold colored ribbons, colorful balloons, and waves. Also, relaxing at the Amadores beach or many other beaches stretching along the Caribbean Sea, or making a short trip to the dense rain forests are some of the preferred plans adopted by many during the time of New Years Eve. Usually, it is a good way to loosen up, before gearing up for the evening celebrations is another preferred option, pleasantly adopted by many.

 

 

Irrespective of the festival or nature opf celebration, people in Puerto Rico love to set off fireworks. In most of the cities of Puerto Rico, setting off fireworks is common during the time of New Years Eve. Most of the people in Puerto Rico consider it as an important and intrinsic part of celebrations on New Years Eve. People usually prefer to have ‘estrellitas’, which are long, dark, and thin, stick like substances, which are burn at the one end, and the other hand is used for handling it. They don’t create noise, and are considered as safe and colorful for even small children. Burning them during the New Years Eve is a favorite way to mark one’s contentment for the moment.

Also, music remains the driver of the celebrations of the evening. People usually pay loud music and then dance on them. In some of the places in Puerto Rico, such as in the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan, planned celebrations take place, which includes a fireworks show at midnight, live music performances (usually Latin music), and some great recipes of the Puerto Rico food on the menu. Being a community based celebration, lots of people along with their families show up to spend some great time in the evening.

There is a New Years Eve tradition of eating twelve grapes, as soon as the clock at the midnight rings twelve. Each of the twelve grapes is considered to symbolize for a month of the coming year. Eating them at midnight, while making a wish, is considered to be auspicious. Also, it is believed that all wishes of a person come true by doing so. After this, one gets busy in exchanging New Year wishes with one another by saying ‘Happy New Year!’ or ‘Prospero Año Nuevo!’. A toast of Cidra is raised for the New Year, and everyone share hugs and kisses, which are the most common form of expressions and one’s love for others.

There is also a tradition of singing a poem of ‘El Brindis del Bohemio’ after the midnight arrives. Usually, the parties organized at home have bacalaitos in its menu, because apart from being an inexpensive dish, it is also considered as the true Puerto Rico party dish.

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New Years Eve in Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a country located in the centre of America. Every year, it celebrates its New Year according to Georgian calendar on January 1.



Celebrations on New Years Eve in Costa Rica

The New Years Eve in Costa Rica is somewhat different from its counterpart American countries, in particularly the North American countries, where most of the people love to move out of their houses and then become a part of the social and street parties to celebrate their New Year’s time.

Contrary to that, most of the natives of Costa Rica can be found celebrating with their families and close friends only. Even if someone wishes to move out to be a part of the big stage celebrations, one might not be explored to many options.

Most of the party places around the country, such as clubs, discotheques, and pubs shut off an hour before the stroke of the midnight. However, whatever amount they offer to celebrate is still intensely gala, with lots of music, dance, eating, drinking, and cheering.

It is the time when people wish to be with their family members, and set off firecrackers in a more personal affair to mark their grand welcome to the New Year. Though, one can find many people doing the same well before an hour or two of the arrival of New Year. Also,

it goes on till couple of hours after New Year arrives. The limited yet splendid fireworks as observed by people do make Costa Rica look like a brighter place of New Year, in comparison to ordinary days. However, the community organized firework shows on New Years Eve are magnificent and majestic, and the best of the many made during the month of December.

The daytime of New Years Eve, as well as the New Year’s Day is mostly spend on beautiful locations, and more preferably beaches, forests, and the beautiful mountains.

Mal Pais, Montezuma, Puntarenas, Jaco and Guanacaste are the most popular tourist spots in and around the time of New Year. The Zapate festival is another popular place to be in on New Years Eve. Another popular attraction on New Years Eve is the street parties of Zapote, and Fiestas de Zapote, an extended six days long carnival.

 

 

Traditions on New Years Eve in Costa Rica

If you are planning to be in Costa Rica this New Year, then do make sure that you go through the following lines. There are certain traditions, which are significant in the lives of the people there. Take a look.

1. New Years Eve is a time for putting some extra efforts. Women of the make sure that their house gets into an absolute clean state at the time of the arrival of New Year, and thus, they put in adequate time to sweep every bit of a dust out and away. Traditionally, it symbolizes for sweeping the past evils and bad lucks, and welcoming good luck and optimism in the house.

2. There are many others who throw water contained in a pan over the shoulders, with a belief that it will leave behind all hard and bitter memories of the past, with the arrival of New Year.

3. Wearing yellow confers one with good luck in the coming year, while wearing red underwear confers one with a love partner in the coming year.

4. If one wish to travel in the coming year, then there is a tradition of walking two times around one’s house or walk down the neighborhood street with luggage in hand, on New Years Eve.

5. There is a widely observed tradition of eating twelve grapes on the midnight of New Years Eve in Costa Rica. Each grape is considered to represent for as month of the coming year.

6. With the clock turning twelve, everyone cheers and wishes all those present around. There is a tradition of singing the traditional song of ‘Ano Vejo’ on the occasion, the lyrics of which talk about all what past year left in life.

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