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Apr 2024

  • By Travelspoc

Christmas: 10 Unique Christmas Traditions From Around The World

Get ready, Christmas is just around the corner! 

We have many tried-and-true Christmas traditions in Kerala like hanging a star in porch, decorating house with serial lights and making a beautiful Christmas crib with figurines that reenact the nativity scene. Evenings are marked by christmas papa visiting houses with gifts and candies.

Christmas is a universal festival that is celebrated all over the world with much grandeur and fervour. Each country celebrates Christmas in different ways. Some of those involve foods that only appear once a year. Others give gifts that carry a particular meaning.  Some like to exchange gifts and light fireworks. Some of the ways Christmas is celebrated around the world might shock you!!

Lets take a llok how this holiday is celebrated around the world…

  1. KFC Christmas Dinner in Japan
  2. Hiding your mops and brooms in Norway
  3. Christmas trees are decorated with ornamental spider webs in Ukraine
  4. Families exchange books on Christmas Eve in Iceland
  5. Giant Lantern Festival in Phillipines
  6. Going to the Church on Rollar skaters on Christmas in Venezuela
  7. Krampus, a half-demon wander streets and punishes misbehaving children at Christmastime in Austria!!
  8. Christmas pickle ornament in Christmas trees and the first child to find it gets a special present in Germany
  9. Breaking Christmas piñatas filled with candies and toys in Mexico
  10. People counts the days to Christmas with an Advent Calender in Sweden

However you like to celebrate, Christmas is a festival of love and joy. After all,  Christmas is all about embracing the commandment “Love Your Neighbor As Yourself “!!