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You Are Here: Australia - National Geographic Kids

Two Aussie kids, Ava and Kalani, give us their perspectives on life down under. Eight-year-old Ava, and Kalani, a nine-year-old boy, live in different Australian cities and have never met. Find out what Aussie kids do for fun and what school is like in the land of koalas and kangaroos.

Photos

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Photo: Boat in harbor

02/19/10

Ava took a tour of Sydney

Photo: Australia flag on bridge

02/19/10

Ava took a photo of the flag on the bridge

Photo: Boats in Sydney harbor

02/19/10

Ava shows us some boats in the harbor

02/19/10

Ava takes us on a tour of Sydney

Photo: Girl with Sydney Opera House

02/19/10

Ava shows off the Sydney Opera House

Photo: Green orangutan

02/16/10

Ava made an orangutan in school

Photo: Girl with island in ocean

02/16/10

Ava at Coogee Beach with Wedding Cake Island in the background.

Photo: Girl with flower in hair

02/16/10

Ava found a frangipani tree and put a flower in her hair.

Photo: Girl with gold leaf

02/04/10

Ava holds a gold leaf which is supposed to be good luck!

Photo: Beach in rain

02/04/10

Ava and everyone else ran from the beach when it poured rain.

Photo: Bondi beach in rain

02/04/10

Ava went to the beach after school.

Photo: People walking up stairs

02/04/10

Ava left the beach and went to get frozen yogurt.

Photo: Girl with yogurt

02/04/10

Ava likes her frozen yogurt plain.

Photo: Yogurt with pistachios.

02/04/10

Ava's mum had pistachios and halva (a sweet confection popular in the Middle East) on her frozen yogurt.

Photo: Woman in sunglasses

02/04/10

Ava's mum holds her frozen yogurt.

02/04/10

Ava went to Bondi beach with her mum.

Photo: Car with satellites

01/29/10

Kalani's photo of a car in Fitzroy

Photo: Girl in sports uniform

01/29/10

Ava shows off her new sports uniform.

Photo: Girl and her dad

01/29/10

Ava and her dad.

01/29/10

Ava's godmother has a possum living in her roof!

Photo: Girl with bouquet

01/25/10

Ava went to visit her Grandpa in Fairfield

Photo: Lego structures and girl

01/25/10

Ava worked with LEGOs

Photo: Walking stick

01/25/10

Ava saw a walking stick at the library

01/25/10

Ava visited the library

Photo: Two Guinea pigs eating

01/25/10

Ava took a photo of two Guinea pigs eating

Photo: Two Guinea pigs

01/25/10

Ava visits two Guinea pigs

Photo: Kids sitting down

01/22/10

Kalani's cousins

Photo: Rye beach

01/22/10

Kalani went to a beach in Rye.

Photo: Cake with Jedi knights

01/22/10

Kalani went to a Star Wars birthday party with a Jedi knights cake.

Photo: Kids in costumes in garden

01/22/10

Kalani and friends training as Jedis.

Photo: Ava on her uncle's shoulders

01/13/10

Ava got a better view from her uncle's shoulders

Photo: Crowd and colorful stage

01/13/10

The stage lights were colorful at the Sydney Festival

Photo: Tent and stage

01/13/10

Ava watched the Sydney Festival from the large crowd

Photo: Video screen

01/13/10

Aboriginal ceremony was on the big screens at the Sydney Festival

Photo: Lizard and strawberry

01/06/10

Ava's family lizard likes to eat strawberries

Photo: Girl and lizard

01/06/10

Ava holds her Dad's lizard

Photo: Girl handling a snake

01/06/10

Ava wrangles a big snake

Photo: Girl and snake

01/06/10

Ava holds a friend's snake

Photo: Vegemite

01/06/10

Ava loves Vegemite plain!

Photo: Girls with glowsticks

01/06/10

Ava and Promise enjoy the fireworks and glow sticks

Photo: Fireworks in Newcastle

01/06/10

Ava enjoys the New Year fireworks in Newcastle

01/05/10

This camel walked right past our restaurant.

Photo: Spiderman on a bench

01/04/10

Kalani saw this Spiderman statue in India

Photo: Man surrounded by large fingers

01/04/10

Kalani tried to make it look like he picked up the Taj, but a man got in the way!

Photo: Taj Mahal

01/04/10

Kalani visited the Taj Mahal during Christmas

Photo: Car and comic book

01/04/10

Kalani got a model of an Ambassador car and comic book

Photo: Gingerbread house

01/04/10

Kalani's hotel in India had a big gingerbread house for Christmas

Photo: Christmas food

12/26/09

Ava's Christmas treats

Photo: Ava and Great Grandma

12/26/09

Ava at Christmas in Melbourne

Photo: Ava and her family

12/26/09

Ava spent Christmas in Melbourne with her Dad's side of the family

Photo: Ava and Christmas tree

12/26/09

Ava with her Christmas tree

Photo: Bowl of ice cream

12/24/09

Kalani got a 4 out of 10 on his dessert. There was a bug in it!

Photo: Two women

12/24/09

Kalani's friends came over for a round of Masterchef Oxford Street

Photo: Kalani and Bangali friends

12/24/09

Kalani ate lots of curry with his Indian friends

Photo: Broken bird eggs

12/22/09

Ava found bird eggs

Photo: Blue wren

12/22/09

Ava found a blue wren

Photo: Girl with a giraffe painted on her face

12/22/09

Ava had a giraffe painted on her face

Photo: Girl playing a clarinet in a crowd

12/22/09

Ava busking in Australia

Photo: Ava with trophy

12/15/09

Ava holds her trophy

Photo: Ava washing mask in ocean

12/15/09

Ava washes her snorkeling mask

Photo: Brittle star

12/15/09

Ava holds a brittle star

Photo: Ava with starfish

12/15/09

Ava with a starfish

Photo: Ava by the ocean

12/15/09

Ava looks out to sea

Photo: Kalani with microphone

12/15/09

Kalani is on ABC radio

Photo: Kalani in the classroom

12/15/09

Kalani is the VIP in his class for the week

Photo: Two clowns

12/15/09

Kalani and James dress as clowns

Photo: Bugs and snails

12/07/09

Ava's collection of bugs and snails

Photo: Man on dark stage

12/07/09

My dad's band played at the festival

Photo: Kalani's chalk message

12/07/09

Kalani's silly message: “Chickens are actually mutants in disguise plotting to take over the world.”

Photo: Kalani on Melbourne street

12/07/09

There are lots of cool festivals in Melbourne

Photo: Artist's chalk drawing of a face

12/07/09

Alleyway painting in Melbourne

Photo: Bubble machine

12/07/09

There are lots of things to see and buy at the festivals in Melbourne

Photo: Art work of cell phone that says, Think

12/01/09

I have seen some cool art in Melbourne like this cell phone that says, Think.

Image: Comic Zich and Zoch Part 1

12/01/09

Kalani's comic, Zich and Zoch, Part 1

Photo: Balloons

12/01/09

I can see the balloons and the city of Melbourne from my window.

Photo: Boy in sunglasses

12/01/09

Kalani in sunglasses and a large jacket.

12/01/09

Quoll are interesting animals

Photo: Girl and man on boat

12/01/09

Ava drives the boat

Photo: Girl and mom

12/01/09

Ava and her mum

Image: Australia flag

11/05/09

Flag of Australia

Photo: Kalani in top hat

11/05/09

Kalani loves to draw

11/05/09

Ava lives near the beach

November 2012