Merry Christmas from Travel Explorations!

2006-01-01

We in Travel Explorations wish you all a Merry Christmas. Christmas is celebrated in different ways around the world. The Christmas Day is a time for relaxing and fun. Merry Christmas is expressed different around the world. Some examples are: Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees, Arabic: Milad Majid, Argentine: Feliz Navidad, Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo, Chinese Cantonese: Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun, Chinese Mandarin: Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan, Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo, Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok, Danish: Glædelig Jul, Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo, Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad, Finnish: Hyvaa joulua, French: Joyeux Noel, German: Froehliche Weihnachten, Icelandic: Gledileg Jol, Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul, Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo, Sami: Buorrit Juovllat, Spanish: Feliz Navidad, Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År! Independent of how "Merry Christmas" it`s said, it means happiness. So in this way we hope Christmas can bring people closer together, and be helpful for those people who need it most.

Photo. Christmas celebration in snowy Norway at Hosle - Barum, near Oslo. © Travel Explorations.

Christmas is for everybody. For us in Travel Explorations is represent one way to keep in continously in touch with people we have met on our tours, and become friend with. It`s not easy to keep in touch over a long time with people living on a far distance from us, but in Christmas we always remember them and send our greetings. And you`ll never now. Perhaps one day we go back to meet them again!

As mentioned above Christmas traditions vary around the world. It`s celebrated by most Christians to mark the birth of Jesus, which is believed to have occurred in Bethlehem in the Roman Province of Judea between 6 BC and AD 6. Today this area is commonly referred to as the West Bank. Christmas also has many non-religious aspects, which are sometimes celebrated more often than the birth of Jesus.

Anyway have a peaceful Christmas! Make the best out of it to make other people happy!

Best greetings from
Stein Morten Lund
Travel Explorations
www.TravelExplorations.com