In Pictures | How Eastern Hemisphere Celebrated Christmas 2016
It's summertime for southern hemisphere which means Santa Claus comes on a surfboard than on a sleigh led by Rudolph!
German tourists Mimi Wiebeling (L) and Pauline Lapetite carry surfboards as they walk into the surf wearing Christmas hats at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Christmas Day in Australia, December 25, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray
A diver dressed in Santa Claus costume feeds animals at an aquarium ahead of Christmas day in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer
People dressed in Santa's costumes pose for photographs with a child during a protest demanding South Korean President Park Geun-hye's resignation in Seoul, South Korea, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Jewish men dance to mark the start of Judaism's festival of light, Hanukkah in central Moscow on December 24, 2016. The annual "Festival of Lights" marks the rebellion of Maccabee Jews against the Greeks in 165 BC, which some believers say included a number of miracles pointing to divine providence. AFP/Vasily Maximov
A group of choir sings the holy songs during a Christmas mass in Colombo on December 25, 2016. Christians account for some 6% of Sri Lanka's 21 million people. AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara
People walk past a sculpture by Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik featuring around 1000 Santa Claus figures at Puri Beach, some 65km east of Bhubaneswar, on December 24, 2016. Although Indian Christians make up just 2% of the country's billion-plus population, Christmas has become a popular festival in the Indian calendar. AFP/Asit Kumar
Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C), apostolic administrator of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, leads the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Catherine's Church at the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the adjacent Church of the Nativity on December 25, 2016 in Bethlehem, West Bank. AFP/Musa Al Shaer
A Christmas tree lights near damaged buildings during Christmas eve in al-Hamidiyah neighbourhood in the old city of Homs, Syria December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
Roman Catholic priests pray during the service at Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Istanbul on Christmas Eve, on December 24, 2016. AFP/Yasin Akgul
People make their way next to an illuminated boat, traditional Greek symbol for Christmas, on central Syntagma square in Athens, Greece, December 24, 2016. REUTERS/Michalis Karagiannis