Close your eyes and imagine being able to travel around the world and experience how different cultures and countries celebrate the holidays…Now, open your eyes, and head over to Disney’s Epcot to see everything you imagined and more! From November 28th through December 30th, one of Walt Disney World’s most festive and anticipated annual events, Holidays Around the World, comes to Epcot for a fantastic universal celebration that doesn’t even require an airplane.

Once you cross the luminous light bridge adorning the breezeway to World Showcase Plaza, guests will see a magnificent holiday tree along with exquisite holiday decor and dazzling lights. Be sure to stick around the Tree Stage to catch the Lights of Winter, a synchronized light show set to a festive holiday score.

Then, go around to each Pavilion (to refresh your memory, Epcot includes Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, The American Adventure, Japan, Morocco, France, United Kingdom, and Canada) to enjoy unique holiday traditions, international culinary delights of the season, one-of-a-kind holiday gifts, and incredible storytelling. From France’s Pere Noel to Italy’s LaBefana and the USA’s Santa Claus, you’ll see beloved international holiday figures spreading messages of goodwill.

Don’t miss the highlight of the celebration, the nightly Candlelight Processional. In this heartfelt holiday tradition, a mass choir and 50-piece live orchestra showcase the reason for the season. Located at the America Gardens Theater, the Processional features a different celebrity narrating the Christmas story each evening. The narrators scheduled to perform include John O’Hurley, Neil Patrick Harris, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Virginia Madsen, Marlee Matlin, Monique Coleman, Chita Rivera, Abigail Breslin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Edward James Olmos, Angela Bassett, and Courtney Vance.

We highly recommend pairing this heart-warming holiday show with a Candlelight Dinner Package, which provides dining at a select Epcot restaurant and reserved general seating for the Candlelight Processional. Since the show’s seating is on a first come, first serve basis, people begin waiting in line for 45 minutes before show time (and if you’re waiting for the 2nd or 3rd show of the night, this means you’ll hear the music from the show before). For this reason, it’s worth reserving the Candlelight Dinner Package for the reserved Processional seating alone.

If you think the Candlelight Processional sounds amazing, wait until you see the finale of the evening, the IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth nighttime spectacular. At 9:30 every night, the World Showcase Promenade comes alive with music, lights, water fountains, and an incredible pyrotechnics show. And every evening during the Holidays Around the World celebration, IllumiNations will feature a unique holiday finale with the song “Let There Be Peace On Earth” and the warm voice of Walter Cronkite.

Since Holidays Around the World is an international celebration, it’s a festive and educational attraction that the whole family can enjoy. And since Kwanzaa and Hanukkah observances are also featured, every family can enjoy it, too. Don’t miss out on this incredible holiday treat that will warm your spirit and transport it around the world. Check out discount Epcot tickets at OrlandoFunTickets.com to begin a fun, seasonal journey.