I’ve heard that instead of reindeer, you travel with alligators ... (Editor’s note: Papa Noel is also known as Arnold Cormier of Carencro.) This Cajun Christmas classic is in full color.

In 2006, she wrote the children’s book, “The Legend of Papa Noel: A Cajun Christmas Story.” “He’s a Cajun Santa Claus, and he rides in a pirogue, or cajun canoe, pulled by alligators ...

Every year on Christmas Eve, bonfires light the way for Papa Noel’s ... light up the night for the Cajun "Father Christmas." This year’s show stopper: A massive alligator.

Père Noël or Papa Noel was gift bringer back ... “Out here in Cajun countries those reindeer quickly become alligators when he goes south of Interstate 10,” says Boe. However this year ...

TRI-via: The narrator in "Cajun Night Before Christmas" spies St. Nick with his flying skiff and eight flying alligators ... of French settlers called him Papa Noel. Cajuns celebrated a visit ...

Rumor has it that the bonfires help light the way for “Papa Noel,” the Cajun name of Santa Claus, on Christmas. Weather permitting, this alligator bonfire, along with more than a dozen others ...

But instead of going tall with their build, they went long with a 78-foot alligator display ... “lighting a way for Papa Noel,” Weidert told CNN. Who they call, the Cajun Santa Clause.

(WAFB) - Papa Noel is coming down the Mississippi River ... at the bonfire event in the River Parishes, showing off a Cajun Christmas. ”It’s cool to see all these people coming from places ...

MORGAN CITY, LA (WAFB)- As part of the Cajun Coast holiday celebrations, this years illuminated Shrimp Boat display has some new features that would make Papa Nöel very happy. Thanks to the ...