Check out these Christmas images from around the world.

Check out these Christmas images from around the world.
What is your experience of Christmas? Is everything is covered in snow, where fairylit houses secure their occupants, huddled around a open fire watching… well, Eastenders probably. We here at LP headquarters in Melbourne should be lazing on our cabanas by the pool, sipping champagne and swatting flies while the menfolk rustle up another shrimp to throw on the barbie but it’s unseasonably cold and wet here this year. With most of Europe snowed under, 2010 brings everyone a very unusual Christmas.
Our trusty photographers have captured some great images of Christmas from around the globe. Even Oprah’s branching out and laying low in Fiji. Where will you be spending it? And if you’re stuck somewhere, how are you going to make the most of this Christmas?
Christmas wreath on fencing in rural Sun Valley. (Stephen Saks)
Christmas, American style. Those skies are very blue but the temperatures must be freezing!
Annaberg-Bucholz, Sachsen State, Germany.
Deck your halls with everything imaginable from these markets dedicated entirely to Christmas-related paraphernalia. Only in Germany!
Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York. (Michael Taylor)
Who hasn’t dreamed of skating under that gigantic Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center?
Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island. (Michael Coyne)
This incredible shot was taken while Christmas shoppers flooded the centre of Hong Kong, reflected in the mirrored red and green tiles.
Champs-Elysees, Paris (Jean-Pierre Lescourret)
A very beautiful Parisian Christmas on the Champs-Elysees.
Orchard Road, Singapore (Kevin Clougston)
Lack of snow is the only giveaway that this is not a European Christmas. Singaporeans like to dazzle with elaborate, colourful lighting.
Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Ralph Hopkins)
Farolitos, or paper lanterns, decorate Canyon Road on Christmas Eve in America’s southwest.
Newhaven, near Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. (Sally Dillon)
An Aussie Christmas on the beach – a post-barbecue leftover feeding frenzy with our rather large winged (and beaked) friends, the pelican.
Bethlehem.
Where it all supposedly started won’t feature too much of the glitz and glamour of many other places.