Home For The Holidays? See Christmas Lights Of The World With These 5 Virtual Tours
12/24/20 AT 9:41 AM
With the coronavirus limiting travel for the holidays, it doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on the beauty of the holiday lights. You can still travel the world and get a glimpse of Christmas in all its glory at many travel spots located around the world through a series of live virtual tours.
Here are some of the most coveted locales to see the holiday lights right from the comfort of your home:
New York City
Nothing is more spectacular than Christmas in New York City. But if you were unable to get to the Big Apple for the holidays, you can take a live 90-minute tour with a local tour guide to see the city’s most sought-after sites.
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When Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, embarked on his series of strolls through New York City in March, he knew he’d be providing a peek at Midtown’s skyscrapers and Harlem’s brownstones for readers around the world. But he also hoped New Yorkers would turn to the walks as a source of comfort and pride while they hunkered down at home.
The Times recently published Mr. Kimmelman’s walks 17 so far as an online collection that allows readers to hop from the Bronx to Brooklyn, from pre-Cambrian days to the present, with guides like David Adjaye, Deborah Berke, Eric Sanderson and Suketu Mehta. In a conversation from his Upper West Side apartment earlier this month, Mr. Kimmelman reflected on how the project changed his perspective on the city where he was born and grew up and that he has called home for most of his life and also about how