European New Year in Egypt: a fairy tale or a story?

You want to buy a tour. New Year in Egypt 2012Are you afraid of losing your European holiday? Don’t worry, the Egyptians have it all figured out. New Year in Egypt is celebrated several times!

No, no, we do not mean the Egyptian New Year, which is celebrated on the eleventh of September. We are talking about the New Year and Christmas holidays celebrated by Europeans. Arriving in Egypt in mid-December, you can celebrate Catholic Christmas under palm trees. It is interesting that over time, the local Aborigines began to celebrate Christmas together with tourists! On this day, all the resort cities of Egypt appear before the guests of the country dressed up and decorated, so that you do not feel deprived.

As for Christmas trees, they are stuffed with all major Egyptian shops. However, even Santa Claus in these parts is not uncommon. After Catholic Christmas in Egypt, as in Europe, comes the New Year, smoothly flowing into another Christmas, but this time not Catholic, and Orthodox. By the way, the seventh of January, the day on which, according to tradition, all Orthodox celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, is a day off in Egypt!