Meghalaya gets ready to celebrate week-long Christmas festivity

Shillong, Dec 24 (UNI) Churches across Meghalaya have geared up for week-long Christmas festivity and New Year celebration, commencing from tomorrow.

The entire capital town has turned into a fairy land with spectacular illumination of light and red light atop the houses to symbolises the arrival of the lord Jesus to the earth.

The churches were also illuminated in the evenings to add to the festive cheer.

All government offices, including those of the Central government and Banks, had been decorated with lights.

Police Bazar and Laitumkhrah, the commercial hubs, also wore a new look with the illumination of light in almost all the shops.

In Garo Hills districts too, churches and town were decorated with lights.

Christmas carol across Meghalaya started for the last one week braving the chilled winter. All young and old joined the Santa Claus in Christmas carol.

Santa Claus's have been seen in different parts of the city greeting people and distributing sweets to children. People, specially the children and teenager, have been seen exchanging Christmas cards, chocolates and gifts.

Christmas trees and wreaths were decorated in almost every household as a part of the celebration.

Special Christmas cakes are being prepared in almost every household and bakeries to add embellishment to the festival.

Foreign and domestic tourists have arrived to celebrate the world's greatest day here, popularly known as ''Scotland of the East''.

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