Gallery: Santa here, there, everywhere

More than 1000 volunteers clad in Santa Claus costumes throw their hats in the air as they gather to deliver gifts for the poor in downtown Seoul, South Korea. Picture: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Israeli-Arab Issa Kassissieh holds a Christmas tree distributed by the Jerusalem municipality while he poses for the media wearing a Santa Claus costume in Jerusalem's Old City. Picture: REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Hector Chacon, a Guatemalan firefighter dressed as Santa Claus, walks before rappelling down from the Belize bridge to give toys to children living under the bridge, in Guatemala City. Picture: William Gularte/Reuters

Pancho Claus, Rudy Martinez, waves to children as he visits Knowlton Elementary School, in San Antonio. Pancho Claus, a Tex-Mex Santa borne from the Chicano civil rights movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is now an adored Christmas fixture in many Texas cities. Picture: AP Photo/Eric Gay

A man dressed as Santa Claus poses with a family during Christmas celebrations near the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City. Picture: REUTERS/Henry Romero

Children dressed in Santa Claus costumes gather around a girl dressed up as Virgin Mary during Christmas celebrations at a church in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. Picture: REUTERS/Ajay Verma

A man from Lapland, Finland dressed as Santa Claus poses with a girl for souvenir photos to celebrate Christmas in downtown of Seoul, South Korea. Picture: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

Dancers dressed as Santa Claus and an elf perform for children from orphanages in an event ahead of Christmas celebrations at the Government Palace in Lima. Picture: REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

People dressed as Santa Claus ride a horse cart in Lahore, Pakistan. Although Pakistani Christians are in the minority, Christmas is a national holiday and is observed across the country as an occasion to celebrate. Picture: AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary

A diver dressed as Santa Claus surfaces after swimming in the Coral Garden tank at the South East Asia Aquarium of Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore. Picture: AP Photo/Wong Maye-E

A man dressed as Santa Claus looks up at Christmas lights in Abidjan. Picture: AFP PHOTO/SIA KAMBOU

131223. Cape Town. David Khosi dressed up as Santa in the hope of making more money as he sells jokes at traffic light intersections near Paradise road in Claremont. Picture Henk Kruger/Cape Argus

131223. Cape Town.Goodwood twins, Perez and Boaz Jonker(5), sits on Santa's lap at the V&A Waterfront posing for a picture. Picture Henk Kruger/Cape Argus

131223. Cape Town. Santa( Shane Woolstencroft) made an special apearance during the feeding session at the I&J Predator tank in the Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront. Picture Henk Kruger/Cape Argus