Santa Claus is always ready to welcome visitors at the Santa Claus Village amusement park.
In Finland's remote Lapland region, the Santa Claus Village amusement park is a snowy wonderland of reindeer rides, ice castles, snowmobiles and igloo hotels where Christmas holds sway 365 days a year.
At its centre, a wooden, fairytale-esque cabin houses Santa's grotto – since the 1980s, tourism chiefs have set out to market the main town, Rovaniemi, as the world's official home of Santa Claus.
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The real winter wonderland
Santa Claus is always ready to welcome visitors at the Santa Claus Village amusement park.
Tourists riding a dogsled at Rovaniemi. Lapland's reindeer-herding Sami people are protesting that some in the tourist industry spread offensive stereotypes about the indigenous tribe. — Photos: AFP
An ice structure at the Santa Claus Village near Rovaniemi, the Finnish Lapland.
Santa Claus' post office is where you will find letters addressed to 'him' from all over the world.
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