Christmas in Bahamas

Like anywhere else in the world, Santa is a popular Christmas motif and children in the region also believe that being on their best behavior through the course of the year qualifies them for great gifts from Santa on Christmas Eve

Most people spruce up their homes for the yuletide festivities which include renovations, thorough cleaning, Christmas trees and other items of yuletide décor and lights that light up the exteriors of homes

Special Christmas treats are a big part of the Bahamian festivities and its common for families to get together to prepare black cake, ginger beer, garlic pork, pork roast, sorrel, mauby and sweet potato fly which is fermented drink

A Bahamas Christmas is characterized by it king size festivities in the form of carnivals, parades, dancing and Caribbean music.

Yuletide season here is incomplete without the Junkanoo parade which is held every year on Boxing Day. Junkanoo celebrations have its roots in the history of the Bahamian people who descended from slaves that worked the plantations

These slaves first started the practice of this carnival like festivities when they got their annual Boxing Day leave from tough enforced labor