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The organizers created a mystical atmosphere on December 14th in the park of the beautiful Belgian town of Mechelen, with the highlight being a water dance.

Insiders call it the "Magic Mountain", the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Hill in Duisburg's Angerpark, on which the artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth have erected a huge construction reminiscent of a roller coaster and called Tiger and Turtle.

The disused coal mine Zeche Zollern in Dortmund is one of the most architecturally remarkable pits in the Ruhr area. The park-like facility with its impressive Art Nouveau buildings still shows today that it was built as a model colliery around 1900 and was intended to show both economic strength and progress.

We visited the facility with our friends from Herne, the photographers Renate and Jürgen Saibic, whom we met many years ago on Easter Island in Chile.

The multicolored dancing lights of the northern lights are a phenomenon which, if the KP index is high, can be recorded.

Photographing the northern lights at Christmas time is a wonderful project. However, good photo-technical preparation is necessary.

We saw and photographed South American coatis (Nasua nasua) in Villahermosa. Their species belongs to the family of small bears.

Geocaching in winter is sometimes a challenge and in Lapland there is also the short duration of daylight in winter. This was actually an advantage in Rovaniemi.

The fjells Luosto and Pyhätunturi together form an approximately 35 km long mountain range in Lapland. The highest peak of Pyhätunturi is called Noitakero

Winter photos with lots of snow from Luosto in Lapland, Finland.

Driving from Rovaniemi to the north of Finland, a stop at Santa Claus Village in the Arctic Circle is a must.