world showcase

What Countries Should Be Added to EPCOT’s World Showcase?

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The World Showcase at Epcot is one of our favorite spaces in all of Walt Disney World. It is the It's a Small World ride in park form. Visitors can explore the culture, people, and food of 11 countries spanning 4 continents. And you can do this all within a 1+ mile walk around a picturesque lagoon in Central Florida. While visiting each country's pavilion isn't nearly the same as visiting the country itself, I love how it embraces what makes us the same as people, while celebrating our wonderful differences. The last World Showcase pavilion to open was Norway,…

Ranking the Countries of Epcot’s World Showcase

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The World Showcase at Epcot is one of our favorite areas in all of Walt Disney World. The country pavilions give you a taste (pun intended) of the culture of each country, especially when they are staffed by natives of those countries. Yes, we know that it isn't the same as actually traveling to said country. However, it does give you some perspective on the variety of peoples, foods, customs that makes us each unique. More importantly, it allows us to celebrate our similarities, as human beings aren't defined by arbitrary lines on a map. Of course, Banshee and I…