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Greenland Will Celebrate The New Year Twice In One Night

Where: Greenland
December 22, 2009 at 11:47 AM | by Jennifer Kester | 1 Comment

Times Square may be the one of the craziest places to hang out on New Year's Eve, with the massive crowds and chilly weather. But for those who want to party hard, the place to ring in '10 is Greenland, which celebrates New Year's twice in one night. You know what that means: double the amount of drinking.

The first New Year's celebration goes down at 8 p.m. for Danish New Year, in honor of Greenland's history with Denmark. Although Greenland is a self-governing body, Denmark has ruled the island since 1762 and continues to do so today, albeit more loosely, helping oversee foreign policy and defense. To respect its longtime ruler, Greenland gets the party started early because of the four-hour time difference between the two countries.

The second New Year's Eve party happens four hours later at midnight. It marks the traditional Greenlandic New Year. Both festivities are celebrated with good food, singing and, of course, lots of bubbly. At the stroke of 12, fireworks light up the dark sky. But even better than ushering in the New Year with fireworks is celebrating the occasion with the northern lights, or Aurora Borealis. The northern lights can be seen around midnight on a dark, clear night from September to the beginning of April. You'll be able to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon on New Year's Eve from anywhere in the country. You sure as heck won't see this in Times Square.

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  1. Sylvia E

    Jaunted Member

    Party! Party!

    That's definitely exciting. Greenland is truly a good place. Conversely, people are probably so busy on preparing for the New Years Ever party. The only thing that makes the torture of Thanksgiving and Christmas bearable is the knowledge that you get to erase your brain on New Years. However, because you have to obligatorily indulge the people that make your life miserable with presents, you end up light on cash - and you can't throw the kind of New Years Eve parties you'd like. However - there are ideas all over the Internet, like have everyone make a dish from a foreign country, or everyone dresses up in 80s clothes - easy stuff like that. There are some awesome New Years theme parties that you can throw, which are easy on the wallet and family friendly, even if you're light on cash now.
    December 23, 2009 at 11:05 PM
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