Holidays, work trips, Umrah: How UAE residents are welcoming the New Year

Holidays, work trips, Umrah: How UAE residents are welcoming the New Year

From Azerbaijan to Georgia, the country's citizens are all geared up to ring in 2023 from various corners of the world

Published: Tue 27 Dec 2022, 8:05 PM Last updated: Tue 27 Dec 2022, 8:07 PM

As the New Year approaches, several UAE residents are set to welcome 2023 from different parts of the world, with families all geared up to travel to countries in the Caucasian region, and neighbouring ones like Oman and Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the last night of the year.

Deepak Dunani, marketing manager at Konica Minolta, is travelling with his wife and a few friends to Georgia this New Year. “We were supposed to travel during the Christmas vacation, but due to heavy rush and [a prior] engagement, we couldn’t. Now, we have all our travel sorted,” said Dunani.

Dunani is a travel enthusiast, and takes a trip three times a year. “We travel on my birthday, my wife’s birthday, and at the end of the year – and this year it happened to be New Year’s Eve. We have heard a lot about Azerbaijan, but haven’t been there. And I have heard from my friends that Baku is a place to be to welcome the New Year."

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