Leading Christmas destinations! Reykjavic, Iceland. Discover the best Hotel rates this Christmas vacation season!

It's impossible to leave the Yuletide spirit on a trip to Iceland during the holidays - a holiday to Reykjavik will be full of a totally awesome quantity of Traditional cheer. The city goes wild for a great Christmas celebration, and commences ringing in the season at the end of November, with the lighting of the town's Christmas tree at Austurvöllur square. The party includes choirs singing carols and the arrival of the very first of the "Holiday Lads," 13 Santas who perform all over town during the course of Lent.

Other preferred vacation sights feature the X-mas Village in Hafnarfjörður town, a small, cheery town chock full of stores offering holiday season souvenirs and traditional foods amid live entertainment, and a tour to Reykjavik's main Christmas Marketplace in Ingólfstorg Square, which fills with merchants selling holiday season gifts, mulled wine and performances from a wide variety of artists.

Finally, to experience an old-fashioned, Nordic Christmas, head to the Christmas exhibition at the Reykjavik City Museum, where exhibits reveal how fried bread is made, tallow is utilized to make candles, and vacationers can discover traditional Yuletide verses and dances.

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