ramesh
December 31, 2005, 11:44 AM
Ever wish every day could be a holiday? Well it can ... as long as you're in the right part of the world at the time!
Here are the first 2 weeks of the New Year to whet your appetites and to help you start planning your travel itineraries:
January 1st
Año Nuevo (New Year's Day)- Mexico
Founding of Republic of China - Taiwan
Gantan / New Year's Day - Japan
Gregorian New Year (Christian)- India
Independence Day Cameroon Haiti - Sudan
Independence Day of the Slovak Republic - Slovakia
Junkanoo, New Providence and Freeport - Bahamas
Liberation Day - Cuba
Neujahrstag (New Year's Day) - Switzerland
New Year (Western Christians) - Bosnia-Herzegovina
New Year's Day - Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bolivia Bonaire Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo (Republic of) Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Cyprus (Occupied North) Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue North Korea Norway Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saba San Marino Sao Tome & Principe Scotland Senegal Serbia & Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten / St. Martin Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St. Eustatius St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre & Miquelon St. Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname Swaziland Sweden Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom of Great - Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Uruguay US Virgin Islands Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Western Samoa Yemen Yugoslavia Zaire (Democratic Congo) Zambia Zimbabwe
New Year's Day (Ano Nuevo) - Venezuela
Novy rok (New Year's Day) - Czech Republic
Prayer Week - Niue
St. Basil's Day - Bulgaria
Universal Fraternity - Macau
Mary, Mother of God - Vatican City State
World Peace Day - Vatican City State
Chanukkah - Judaism
Ganjitsu / Oshogatsu (New Year's Day) - Shinto
January 2nd
2nd New Year's Day Holiday - Russia
Ancestry Day / Forefather's Day - Haiti
Bank Holiday - Scotland (UK)
Berchtold's Day - Liechtenstein Switzerland
Bridge Day - New Caledonia
Labor Day - Ukraine
New Year's Day 2nd Day - Romania Taiwan
New Year's Day Holiday - Mauritius New Zealand North Korea South Korea
Victory of the Armed Forces - Cuba
Cassé Gâteau - Voudon
January 3rd
Bank Holiday - Taiwan
Revolution Day People's Uprising - Burkina Faso
January 4th
Day of Martyrs of the Colonial Repression - Angola
Head of State's Birthday - Western Samoa
Independence Day - Myanmar
Martyrs of Independence Day - Zaire (Democratic Congo)
Trivia Day - United States of America
January 5th
Dia de la Toma - Spain
Twelfth Night - United States of America
January 6th
Hellig 3 Konger (3 King's Day) - Denmark
3 King's Day - Uruguay
Armenian Christmas - Lebanon
Armenian Christmas Day - Armenia
Army Day - Iraq
Día de los Reyes Magos (Three Kings Day) - Mexico
Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos - Panama
Epiphany -Andorra Austria Cyprus Dominican Republic Finland Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Peru Puerto Rico Romania San Marino Sint Maarten / St. Martin Slovakia Spain Sweden Uruguay Vatican City State
Epiphany (3 Kings Day) - Venezuela
Epiphany (Julian Calendar) - Croatia
Epiphany, St Jordan - Bulgaria
Feast of the Three Kings - Dominican Republic
Heilige Drei Könige (Epiphany) - Switzerland
La Paradura del Niño (The Parade of Baby Jesus) - Venezuela
Maroon Day - Jamaica
Pathet Lao Day - Laos
Three King's Day - Paraguay Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands
Tirer Gâteau (Les rois) - Haiti
Orthodox Christmas Eve - Serbia & Montenegro
Epiphany - Christianity
Tirer Gâteau (Les rois) - Voudon
January 7th
Christmas (Julian Calendar) - Macedonia Moldova
Easrer Day - Sudan
Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) - Ethiopia
Orthodox Christmas - Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Georgia Lebanon Serbia & Montenegro Ukraine
Russian Orthodox Christmas - Kyrgyzstan Russia
Serbian Orthodox Christmas - Yugoslavia
St. John's Day - Bulgaria
Tumbes Anniversary - Peru
Victory Day Over the Genocidal Regime - Cambodia
January 8th
Arafa - Afghanistan
Christmas Holiday - Moldova
Commonwealth Day - Northern Marianas
Jackson Day - United States of America
National Takai Day - Niue
The King's Birthday (Elvis) - United States of America
World Literary Day - International
January 9th
Balloon Ascension Day - United States of America
Kurban Bayrami - Turkey
Martyr's Day (National Mourning) - Palau Panama
National Clean Off Your Desk Day - United States of America
Seijin no Hi / Coming of Age Day - Japan
January 10th
Aid el Kebir (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Burkina Faso Tunisia
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Hari Raya Haji (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Singapore
Id al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Malaysia Pakistan Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka
Id al-Kabir (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Nigeria
Idu'z Zuha / Bakrid (Feast of the Sacrifice) (Muslim/Islam) - India
Kurban Bayram (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Azerbaijan
Traditional Day (Vodoun) - Benin
Asara B'Tevet - Judaism
January 11th
Constitution Day (Kosrae) - Micronesia
Dia de los Maestros - Panama
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Hostos Day - Puerto Rico
Independence Manifesto - Morocco
International Thank-You Day - International
National Unity Day - Nepal
Republic Day - Albania
Sir John A. Macdonald's Birthday - Canada
Id al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Muslim / Islamic
January 12th
Arbor Day - Jordan
Commemoration or Remembrance Day (Anniversary of the Battle of Geok-Tepe)- Turkmenistan
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
National Pharmacist Day - United States of America
Stephen Foster Memorial Day - United States of America
Zanzibar Revolution Day - Tanzania
January 13th
Defenders of Freedom Day - Lithuania
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Liberation Day - Togo
Silversterchläuse - Switzerland
St. Melania's Day - Ukraine
Maghi - Sikhism
January 14th
Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day - Sri Lanka
New Year (Orthodox) - Bosnia-Herzegovina
Old New Year's Day - Macedonia
Ratification Day - United States of America
Serbian Orthodox New Year - Yugoslavia
Maghi - Sikhism
Here are the first 2 weeks of the New Year to whet your appetites and to help you start planning your travel itineraries:
January 1st
Año Nuevo (New Year's Day)- Mexico
Founding of Republic of China - Taiwan
Gantan / New Year's Day - Japan
Gregorian New Year (Christian)- India
Independence Day Cameroon Haiti - Sudan
Independence Day of the Slovak Republic - Slovakia
Junkanoo, New Providence and Freeport - Bahamas
Liberation Day - Cuba
Neujahrstag (New Year's Day) - Switzerland
New Year (Western Christians) - Bosnia-Herzegovina
New Year's Day - Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bolivia Bonaire Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo (Republic of) Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Curacao Cyprus Cyprus (Occupied North) Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Falkland Islands Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue North Korea Norway Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saba San Marino Sao Tome & Principe Scotland Senegal Serbia & Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten / St. Martin Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka St. Eustatius St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Pierre & Miquelon St. Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname Swaziland Sweden Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom of Great - Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Uruguay US Virgin Islands Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Western Samoa Yemen Yugoslavia Zaire (Democratic Congo) Zambia Zimbabwe
New Year's Day (Ano Nuevo) - Venezuela
Novy rok (New Year's Day) - Czech Republic
Prayer Week - Niue
St. Basil's Day - Bulgaria
Universal Fraternity - Macau
Mary, Mother of God - Vatican City State
World Peace Day - Vatican City State
Chanukkah - Judaism
Ganjitsu / Oshogatsu (New Year's Day) - Shinto
January 2nd
2nd New Year's Day Holiday - Russia
Ancestry Day / Forefather's Day - Haiti
Bank Holiday - Scotland (UK)
Berchtold's Day - Liechtenstein Switzerland
Bridge Day - New Caledonia
Labor Day - Ukraine
New Year's Day 2nd Day - Romania Taiwan
New Year's Day Holiday - Mauritius New Zealand North Korea South Korea
Victory of the Armed Forces - Cuba
Cassé Gâteau - Voudon
January 3rd
Bank Holiday - Taiwan
Revolution Day People's Uprising - Burkina Faso
January 4th
Day of Martyrs of the Colonial Repression - Angola
Head of State's Birthday - Western Samoa
Independence Day - Myanmar
Martyrs of Independence Day - Zaire (Democratic Congo)
Trivia Day - United States of America
January 5th
Dia de la Toma - Spain
Twelfth Night - United States of America
January 6th
Hellig 3 Konger (3 King's Day) - Denmark
3 King's Day - Uruguay
Armenian Christmas - Lebanon
Armenian Christmas Day - Armenia
Army Day - Iraq
Día de los Reyes Magos (Three Kings Day) - Mexico
Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos - Panama
Epiphany -Andorra Austria Cyprus Dominican Republic Finland Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Peru Puerto Rico Romania San Marino Sint Maarten / St. Martin Slovakia Spain Sweden Uruguay Vatican City State
Epiphany (3 Kings Day) - Venezuela
Epiphany (Julian Calendar) - Croatia
Epiphany, St Jordan - Bulgaria
Feast of the Three Kings - Dominican Republic
Heilige Drei Könige (Epiphany) - Switzerland
La Paradura del Niño (The Parade of Baby Jesus) - Venezuela
Maroon Day - Jamaica
Pathet Lao Day - Laos
Three King's Day - Paraguay Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands
Tirer Gâteau (Les rois) - Haiti
Orthodox Christmas Eve - Serbia & Montenegro
Epiphany - Christianity
Tirer Gâteau (Les rois) - Voudon
January 7th
Christmas (Julian Calendar) - Macedonia Moldova
Easrer Day - Sudan
Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) - Ethiopia
Orthodox Christmas - Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Georgia Lebanon Serbia & Montenegro Ukraine
Russian Orthodox Christmas - Kyrgyzstan Russia
Serbian Orthodox Christmas - Yugoslavia
St. John's Day - Bulgaria
Tumbes Anniversary - Peru
Victory Day Over the Genocidal Regime - Cambodia
January 8th
Arafa - Afghanistan
Christmas Holiday - Moldova
Commonwealth Day - Northern Marianas
Jackson Day - United States of America
National Takai Day - Niue
The King's Birthday (Elvis) - United States of America
World Literary Day - International
January 9th
Balloon Ascension Day - United States of America
Kurban Bayrami - Turkey
Martyr's Day (National Mourning) - Palau Panama
National Clean Off Your Desk Day - United States of America
Seijin no Hi / Coming of Age Day - Japan
January 10th
Aid el Kebir (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Burkina Faso Tunisia
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Hari Raya Haji (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Singapore
Id al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Malaysia Pakistan Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka
Id al-Kabir (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Nigeria
Idu'z Zuha / Bakrid (Feast of the Sacrifice) (Muslim/Islam) - India
Kurban Bayram (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Azerbaijan
Traditional Day (Vodoun) - Benin
Asara B'Tevet - Judaism
January 11th
Constitution Day (Kosrae) - Micronesia
Dia de los Maestros - Panama
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Hostos Day - Puerto Rico
Independence Manifesto - Morocco
International Thank-You Day - International
National Unity Day - Nepal
Republic Day - Albania
Sir John A. Macdonald's Birthday - Canada
Id al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Muslim / Islamic
January 12th
Arbor Day - Jordan
Commemoration or Remembrance Day (Anniversary of the Battle of Geok-Tepe)- Turkmenistan
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
National Pharmacist Day - United States of America
Stephen Foster Memorial Day - United States of America
Zanzibar Revolution Day - Tanzania
January 13th
Defenders of Freedom Day - Lithuania
Greater Bairam (Feast of the Sacrifice) - Albania
Liberation Day - Togo
Silversterchläuse - Switzerland
St. Melania's Day - Ukraine
Maghi - Sikhism
January 14th
Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day - Sri Lanka
New Year (Orthodox) - Bosnia-Herzegovina
Old New Year's Day - Macedonia
Ratification Day - United States of America
Serbian Orthodox New Year - Yugoslavia
Maghi - Sikhism