Sri Lanka lays claim to the tallest Christmas tree in the world

Sri Lanka has unveiled a towering 73-meter (238-foot) tall Christmas tree and has claimed that it is the tallest such tree in the world. The current record is held by a Chinese firm that had put up a 55-meter (180-foot) tree-like tower of lights and synthetic foliage, ornaments and lamps in the city of Guangzhou last year.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 25 December 2016.

The organisers have said that the artificial tree in Colombo is 18 meters (59 feet) taller than the current record holder. The steel-and-wire frame of the Christmas tree is covered with a plastic net that is decorated with more than 1 million natural pine cones painted red, gold, green and silver in addition to 600,000 LED bulbs. The tree is topped by a 6-meter (20-foot)-tall shining star.
The cost of the tree is around $US80,000 and hundreds of port workers and volunteers had struggled for four months to put up the tree in time for the holidays.
The Guinness World Records has yet to confirm if this is, indeed, the tallest artificial Christmas tree in the world.


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