I know it’s Halloween week, but the holiday season is right around the corner! And whether your holiday traditions include choirs singing, chestnuts roasting, kitchens cooking, cookies baking or gifts unwrapping, EPCOT is the place to be from Nov. 26 through Dec. 30.
The EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays features cherished cultural traditions, savory seasonal flavors and costumed storytellers from the 11 nations around World Showcase. Guests who are visiting during the festival, will find holiday traditions of the world come to life around World Showcase, such as:
- Las Posadas at the Mexico pavilion
- Canadian Holiday Voyageurs in the Canada pavilion
- Chinese Lion Dance celebrating the new year in the China pavilion
- A Hanukkah storyteller along the promenade and delightful holiday storytellers in France, Italy, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom
- And outside The American Adventure, you can wave hello to Santa Claus as he gets ready for the big day.
And who doesn’t love holiday food? In true EPCOT festival tradition, Holiday Kitchens will cook up treasured recipes from around the globe – from slow-roasted turkey and holiday pot pie to pumpkin gingerbread cheesecake and peppermint sundaes. And a new offering, Chestnuts & Good Cheer Holiday Kitchen, will dish out fire-roasted chestnuts and cinnamon-glazed almonds and cashews, filling the air with delightful aromas.
For those with a sweet tooth, guests of all ages will enjoy sweet treats during the popular Holiday Cookie Stroll. Purchase any five cookies from any of the official Cookie Stroll locations featured in the Festival Passport and collect a matching stamp. Once you’ve collected all five stamps, bring your passport to Holiday Sweets & Treats to receive a specialty cookie!
Guests will then be able to end each day with the beautiful and popular Candlelight Processional, a re-telling of the Nativity story with guest narrators, orchestra, and massed choir performing everyone’s favorite Christmas carols.
EPCOT is truly one of the best places to get into the holiday spirit!
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