Going to the beautiful Birmingham region is a perfect way to spend your Christmas vacations. The city is the gateway to the North England and has a wide range of tourist attractions including museums, art galleries, parks, canal walkways, a ballet company and dense forests. In the Black Country Museum, you get an opportunity to view the re-creation of an old mining village that used to be in the region at an earlier era. Take a ride of the Shakespeare Express, the fastest regular steam train, which takes you through a romantic and scenic landscape to the neighboring town of Stratford. Be sure to visit Warwick Castle, England's finest medieval castle, on your Birmingham Christmas vacations. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts has a wonderful display of some of the world's finest Renaissance, impressionist and modern classic art pieces and paintings. The Treak Cliff Cavern is the only source of a mineral named Blue John in the world. Other attractions that you may include in your itinerary on your Christmas vacation tours to Birmingham are West Midland Safari and Leisure Park, Cadbury World, the Jewellery Quarter and the Custard Factory. You can stay in any of the beautifully decorated hotels, motels and inns when you visit Birmingham on your Christmas vacations. Don't forget to shop for gifts in the shops most of which offer special discounts during Christmas time. On Travour, you will get detailed information on the following Christmas vacation destinations across the world: