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The Santa Claus Village | The Ultimate
Guide
By Bhupasmita Das
Most of us are fond of travelling, 23 rd is another important date of the
even if not travelling we at least love year when Santa leaves on his mission
to visit new places and explore them. to distribute presents to his children
The whole world is beautiful but I all around the world.
guess dreams, fantasies or HOW TO REACH:
imaginations are always better or It’s not very difficult to reach Santa’s
more beautiful then what reality can village if you reach Rovaniemi city, as
be. I dream of travelling the whole there are available taxi, cars to reach
world but in this beautiful world there there. It can also be reached with a
is a world not much real yet so real, local bus number 8 or by Santa’s
it’s a place where dreams meet reality express which leave every hour from
and that place is The Santa Claus Rovaniemi City Centre. It is one of
Village. the best known tourist spot and
HISTORY : resort in today’s times. It is home to
Yes, the beautiful amusement park several activity centres, shops,
located in Rovaniemi, Lapland region restaurants, reindeer rides, holiday
of Finland. It was first opened in 1985 village, igloo hotel etc.
and is located nearly about 2 ATTRACTIONS:
kilometres from the Rovaniemi There are few things that I have heard
Airport. The place is actually believed one must not miss in the Santa Claus
to be the home of our loving Santa Village, firstly the Santa Claus Main
Claus. The place is in the Arctic Post-office. It’s a real post office
Circle and every year thousands of functioned by Posti, Finland’s
visitors go to meet Santa Claus there. national postal service but designed
The ambience of the place is similar like something coming out of the
to that of what we have always read in story books, there are people dressed
our story books. The magical world as elves. We can send cards to our
attracts more than 500,000 visitors all friends and relatives at anytime of the
over the world. Although the place is year and the elves will make sure that
famous all though the year but a it gets delivered at the time of
month before Christmas, the eyes of Christmas. Each letter also gets a
the world turn towards the Santa special Arctic Circle postmark which
Claus Village, as Santa himself invites makes it unique. There are
his people to his place. December also Snowmobile
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