Santa welcomes visitors at Arctic Town

Photo present: A visitor posing with Haapassallo inside the Santa Claus House at a Christmas theme park on the outskirts of Mohe, Heilongjiang province. — Reuters

MOHE: Santa Claus and his elves have been busy at work turning a Christmas village in northern China into a winter wonderland for visitors.

In a two-storey wooden house with about 100 Father Christmas dolls, the white-bearded figure in a red suit writes down seasonal wishes with a quill and poses with tourists at the theme park on the outskirts of Mohe, China’s northernmost city.