Travel: Where to Celebrate

Why stay home for the biggest party of the year when they're celebrating all over the world? Here are some exotic places to ring in 2007.

Edinburgh SCOTLAND

The birthplace of Auld Lang Syne is also the home of Hogmanay, a spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow.

Reykjavík ICELAND

There's precious little light...

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