CNN lists Manila as one of the world’s top Christmas destinations

Roseann Lake of CNN recently wrote an article titled, "Welcome to the most Christmassy places on the planet." In it, she enumerates spots from all over the world where people really take time to highlight the holiday. Manila, Philippines was on the list. Lake wrote: "A trip to the Philippines lets you have it all. Known as the country with "the longest Christmas season in the world," Filipinos get the Christmas festivities rolling in September, and extend them well through January."

The other places on the list (in no particular order) are the following:

• Lapland, Finland

• Strasbourg, France

• Quebec, Canada

• San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

• Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

• Lalibela, Ethiopia

• Barcelona, Spain

• Queenstown, New Zealand

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