I love Christmas - The Celebration, Gifts, Cakes, Xmas trees, decoration! It overpowers all the worries and spread happiness in everyone's life. But to experience the best out of this winter Christmas festival, we have to be at the right place. Look at these truly amazing top destinations in India where you could visit this year to have a wonderful Christmas vacation. Here is the list of 6 best places in India to celebrate Christmas holidays with your family, friends and relatives.




1) Goa 
Christmas on Beaches GOA, the best place to experience Christmas traditions in India. Christmas festival in Goa is celebrated until January 6th with the feast of the three Kings. Buzzing with huge foreign tourist from all across the world, Goa is considered as one of the best destination in India for Christmas and New Year celebrations. Long night parties on beaches, Portuguese grape wine, cocktails in bars and pubs, decoration of churches with of light and flowers, children singing melodious carols, the chocolates, cakes, beaches of Anjuna and Candolim to watch the fireworks is the best experience of the festival fervour. Also post-Christmas celebration, the famous SUNBURN festival takes place which attracts the tourist from all across the world.



2) Shillong
Christmas celebration in Shillong can be another best experience, the Freezing temperature and irresistible cold make the place less crowded during Christmas. It is one of the most visited winter destination in India. The Cathedral Church is one of the oldest and the most famous place in North East India visited by people all across the world. During Christmas, the celebration has melodious ringing of bells, warm greetings, melodious hymns and tall natural Christmas trees that add a lot to the festivities the beauty of the churches and the locality gives you altogether the best traditional experience.



3) Pondicherry
For a French-Style ChristmasPondicherry popularly known as 'Little France' of India if you want to celebrate French-style Christmas. Pondicherry is the perfect place for you, highly influenced by Roman Catholics. During Christmas, all the churches look magnificent and stunning with all comfort and luxuries of life specially Pondicherry’s Church 'Our Lady of Immaculate Conception' and 'Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus'. It looks like a bliss for people who come to enjoys to treat themselves in the midst of sands and sea with lavish parties organized on beaches, hotels and restaurant. Many foreign tourists visit the place for Christmas and for the New Year celebration. For heritage lovers, it is the deadly combination of spiritual teachings as well as fun and adventurous activities like scuba diving, relish French cuisine.



4) Kerala
No doubt Goa is the most famous destination for an entire country to celebrate Christmas. Right? But if you want to celebrate with your family in much quieter place, then holidays in Kerela can be a right option. Kerala, the place of churches and the mother nature, celebrate the birth of Jesus in traditionally extravagant manner. If you are seeking for cultural Christmas celebration, Kerala is an ideal choice - as the days are closer you can feel the celebration in the air, the food, singing carols at the midnight mass, bonfire and many more festive celebrations.




5) Manali
Apart from beaches, if you want to celebrate a fairy style Christmas surrounded by beautiful pine trees with snowy hills? Holidays in Manali is a perfect idea for those who want to celebrate Christmas with your loved one. December is the perfect time to visit Manali and celebrating Christmas in Manali is like a daydream come true. The experience of traditional hotel greetings with Himachali music and their performance will surely gonna make your visit memorable forever. If you love playing in the snow this place will surely mesmerize you, apart from this you can also participate in several winter adventurous activities. Manali has set its benchmark to be one of the best destination in India to Celebrate Christmas. Always plan a month before in order to avoid peak time hassle!



6) Hyderabad
When it comes to picking the best places in India to rejoice Christmas holidays, Hyderabad proves to be the great option to visit with your family, friends and loved ones. From its biryani to its historic structures, Hyderabad is now ranked as the most liveable Indian city with higher tourist attraction spots. The city has many popular places to visit such as Charminar, Ramoji Film City, Mecca Masjid and now the most magnificent set of  Baahubali is also a great attraction for the visitors. So if you do not have any plans for Christmas vacations this year then you can plan a holiday trip to Hyderabad.  

So, have you decided yet where you’d like to spend your Christmas holidays in India?

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