Planning to visit Australia during Christmas? Celebrating Christmas in Australia is a truely unique experience from having your Aussie barbie to splashing around at the beach. In this post you will discover the unique Christmas traditions that make Australian holidays special!
What Christmas traditions does Australia have?
1. Beach Santa
While the whole world celebrates Christmas in winter, Australia is the opposite. Australian kids enjoy a unique summer beach Christmas. Santa Claus is known to make appearances on the beach too!
During Christmas, you can come to Collaroy Beach and encounter Santa Claus! Here you can take a Christmas family portrait with this special beachy vibe!
2. Christmas Lights Competition
In Australia, not only we love decorating our house and garden somehow we even make it a massive competition! In December, you will find many homes and suburbs are coming to life and they are brightening up the street for their local Christmas Lights Competition. If you don’t want to drive around, you can join one of the Christmas Lights Tours to view a selection of the best deploys in comfort!
2. Eating prawns
It is not an Aussie Christmas without some fresh prawns on the table! On Christmas Eve, you may even need to stand in line for hours for seafood. And why we have the tradition of eating prawns? Not only because Australia has a lot of great seafood, also it’s just nice to have some fresh prawns in the warm weather. That’s also why many people would soak up the sunshine and tuck into fresh prawns on the beach!
3. Boxing Day BBQs
Many Australians prefer to celebrate Christmas outdoors by having a barbecue with friends and family! Most local areas and parks has play space with BBQ facilities that provides an outdoor haven for families to spend the day together playing and picnicking.
4. Carols by candlelight
Carols by Candlelight is one of Australia’s most cherished Christmas traditions! Many would watch ‘Carols by Candlelight’ on Christmas Eve while some are going to see it live! Most states in Australia would host their own Carols by Candlelight and there will usually be a few celebrity performers. They might even offer free daytime entertainment before a star-studded evening concert.
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