Christmas Celebration in Australia

Australia celebrates Christmas festival entirely in different manner. Here, Christmas is celebrated in the month of summer. December comes in Australia with the warmth of summer. With opposite seasons to the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas in Australia is quite different from the world. Instead of white, snowy scenery, Australia is filled with blue skies and sunshine and intense heat sometimes up to 35 degrees centigrade. It is Summer Holiday season so people in Australia spends their Christmas Day away from home, in a resort or on the beach.

Christmas is celebrated in traditional manner with families. Church is attended in great majority on Christmas Day and services are completed very early in the morning. Australians have their Christmas dinner in the form of picnic in forest or in resort. They enjoy their picnic by singing carols and playing various games. Australian decorates their homes with flowers and plants and exterior of their homes with special lights.

The Day after Christmas day is celebrated as Boxing Day in Australia. Boxing Day got its name from an old tradition when employers boxed gifts for their workers on the day after Christmas.

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