The Festival of Nations is your free passport around the world celebrating close to 100 different…read morecountries through cuisine, retail vendors, and performances. The culinary experience at this festival is not like any other festival you've ever been to, you are able to experience the flavors of foods not only from your typical Mexican, Greek, American, and Indian restaurants but also from countries that you may never get to experience anywhere else, now I'm talking about places like Damascus, Jordan, Romania, Kenya, Burma, Laos, and I can keep going. It was at this festival that I fell in love with Laotian sausage and mango salad and the stretchy Turkish ice cream, yum!!
The performances here are so fun to watch, both for kiddos and adults, and they always seem to have different performances every year. On the downside, since the festival has lost so much funding due to current administration the festival has had to make cuts on how many international performances they bring to the US, but they have found ways to still make the festival enjoyable and free to the public. With the financial cuts to the festival, vendors do have to raise their prices so that a portion of their profits go towards keeping the festival free, which you will typically see on a flyer on each vendor station.
Definitely make sure you wear your walking shoes at this event, since you will be walking some miles, yes miles, just going back and forth while you check out all of the booths and performances.