Snow hotel
In Finland's snowy far north, international visitors normally flood the Santa Claus Village amusement park in search of reindeer rides, snow castles and a meeting with the jolly, red figure himself. However, under the pandemic travel restrictions, Christmas crowds in the Lapland town of Rovaniemi have dwindled to just a trickle and the joyful winter wonderland feels ghostly and abandoned.
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