How did people celebrate Christmas around the world?

Tim Allman

Christmas Day is almost done for the year - but the festivities are likely to continue for a few more days at least. There's been a lot of food and drink consumed - and a lot of presents unwrapped. The Christmas experience has been different for many people around the world - as the BBC's Tim Allman explains.

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00:00Christmas Day pretty much done for another year but the festivities likely

00:04to continue for a bit longer at least there's been a lot of food and drink

00:07consumed and a lot of presents unwrapped but the Christmas experience has been

00:12different for many people around the world as Tim Ullman explains Hong Kong

00:20is a city of spectacle and splendor all year round but never more so than at

00:26Christmas it seems like the whole place was lit up to celebrate the festive

00:31season there was even some snow albeit not quite the real thing but away from

00:38the celebrations a more somber note members of Hong Kong's Filipino community

00:44holding a Christmas mass just weeks after a deadly fire killed more than 160

00:50people 29 survivors were present at this service seeking comfort and support we

00:57are celebrating Christmas even though the tragedy is there we cannot control

01:02everything but we must we must get out our shell we must we must continue living in

01:09Australia the animals at Adelaide Zoo got to unwrap some presents of their own

01:14pandas lemurs penguins these treats are designed to encourage natural behaviors

01:20such as foraging problem-solving and play play of a different kind in Germany

01:28every year dozens of hardy souls brave the cold waters for a Christmas dip at

01:33this lake in Berlin and apparently going in is the easy part

01:38yes the challenge is getting out of the water said this swimmer it's definitely

01:46warmer than the air but if you hurry and put on a bathrobe then it's all

01:50possible in Texas they say everything is bigger including inflatable Christmas

01:57decorations at this house in Waco the owner has laid out a hundred Santas penguins

02:03snowmen dogs and trees like you do and in LA father Christmas appears to have got

02:10stuck suspended over a shopping center a life-size Santa and his reindeer he's

02:17only got 364 days to get back to the North Pole Tim Allman BBC News

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