Go on a New Year's holiday in Turkey - means twice to change the usual scenery. First, to celebrate the new year without Olivier, Mandarins and the speech of the President, and secondly, to see the winter Turkey, which differs from what usually appears before us in the hot summer.

Holidays in Turkey in the winter

And if you still doubt whether it is worth traveling to Turkey in the winter, here are four good reasons for doing this without delaying . The reason is the cheapest sun . all low season Turkish beach resorts offer excellent rest at reasonable prices . Pools with heated sea water will replace the cooled sea (however, especially bold can dive into the homeland-Mediterranean, water temperature 16-19 ° C), spa treatment will cure The soul is wounded by a heavy daily work, and the traditional hammam will provide the body a full relaxation and cleansing . Add to these pluses and the opportunity to breathe in fresh sea air with full chest and soak with its salty taste and smell .

The reason is the second - "olyklyuzivnye" skis . Ski resorts in Turkey (the only ones in world, hotels that feed guests on the system "all inclusive") offer quality service and relaxed riding on easy routes . And prices compared to the ski in Europe are again more than acceptable . Reason three - a wide range of excursions, from many of which you refused in the summer for the benefit of the sea or because of the intense heat . Take, for example, the Cappadocian valleys: under the scorching June sun, not everyone can wander around them, and in the winter you can enjoy the unique natural landscape in your own pleasure, without hurrying up . Cause the fourth - thermal springs and thalasso; for them both in summer and in winter should be sent to Pamukkale, Kangal and Yalova .

The history of New Year celebrations in Turkey

The beginning of the New Year on the night of December 31 to January 1 began in Turkey only in 1935 . Until then, since 1926 . (when Turkey moved from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar) the holiday fell on the first after Saturday, January 1, 2011 . And the full day off the first day of the new year was only in 1981 . Muslims , which make up the majority of the population of Turkey, put up a Christmas tree (a Christian symbol) of the clergy About the country does not recommend . This council is not followed by everyone - many, like in Russia, refer to the evergreen beauty as a symbol of the New Year without any religious background .

@ New Year's Eve is celebrated in Turkey

New Year's festivities are held in Istanbul and at the resorts of the Turkish Riviera with the greatest scope - but it happens for different reasons . Istanbul has a large number of Eastern Christians, and on the Mediterranean coast it is only not celebrated in please foreign tourists . Of course, New Year's trees are being held in Ankara, the capital of the country, and in new cities and towns the new year comes without much enthusiasm. . The meeting of the new year on the lunar calendar (hijra) with a floating date . is more traditional for the Republic of Turkey.

The program of the holiday is quite traditional: concerts in the squares of cities, lavishly decorated on the eve of New Year's Eve home and shop windows, brightly colored streets and midnight fireworks. In Istanbul, the centers of mass festivals are the Kadikey districts in the Asian part of the city and the Pera peninsula, as well as the Taksim and Sultanahmed areas in the European.

On the Mediterranean coast of tourists who chose Turkey as the meeting place for the new year, luxury hotels are waiting for whose staff will do their best , that the holiday was a success. Throughout the New Year holidays, guests are invited to take advantage of spa programs, take a massage course, swim in heated pools or soak up on the beach, taking sun baths. And on December 31, a special dinner is organized in the hotel restaurant, often accompanied by a show program.

The most "New Year" New Year in Turkey is met at ski resorts. If the palm trees surround the palm trees on the warm coast instead of the Christmas trees, and the sand crunches under your feet, then the atmosphere of the holiday is closer to the Russian one a little farther into the country. Local hotels, working on the system "all inclusive" and offering skiing on the well-groomed quality slopes, are happy to host from December to March.

New Year tours

Familiar for the off-season low prices from tours to Turkey for the New Year, you should not wait .Whatever one may say, it is New Year in Africa (that is, in Turkey) New Year's Eve .Good consolation will be an excellent organization of rest in year-round hotels, the absence of crowds of tourists, radically different from the Russian for the better weather, if you go to the sea, and the opportunity to look at Turkey with other eyes - if you have chosen for recreation one of the centers of alpine skiing .Book a beach-New Year or ski tour to Turkey in advance, as the number of hotels working on the coast in low season, as well as the number of hotels high in the mountains - is limited to .

The popular direction for New Year's tours is the imperial Istanbul. A tour to the unofficial capital of Turkey during the New Year's holiday lasting from 2 to 7 nights (from $ 400 per person for a hotel in the city center with breakfasts) is suggested to be completed with a New Year dinner in the restaurant or on a boat cruising the Bosphorus. Festive salute is best to admire one of the many embankments. The first days of the new year can be filled with educational excursions or just a relaxed walk through the streets of the ancient city.

Author - Gulshat Zakirova