10 Wildest New Year's Traditions

1. Pick a Different New Year in Hong Kong

Why celebrate just one New Year when you can celebrate two? Hong Kong's Chinese New Year celebration, the biggest in the world, includes the usual suspects – a night parade, street performances, fireworks – along with the well-wishing festival, a lantern exhibition and the traditional New Year Race Day, during which enthusiasts guarantee good luck for the year by betting on their favourite horse. (Dates vary with each year, but the Chinese New Year falls from late January through mid February.)