Say hello around the world 👋
Every Keepy-Up Kids episode starts by saying hello the way local people do. Here are all the greetings from the show. Try saying them out loud!
| Greeting | Place | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| Mabuhay! | Anilao, Philippines | The Copycat Octopus 🐙 |
| Kia ora! + every Season 5 hello | Arthur's Pass, Southern Alps, New Zealand | The Kea Cup (the Cheekiest Parrot) 🏆 |
| Ciao! | Asinara, Sardinia, Italy | The White Donkey Island 🫏 |
| ¡Hola! + every Season 6 hello | Atacama Desert, Chile | The Desert Cup Under a Billion Stars 🏆 |
| Olá! | Atlantic Forest, Brazil | Tiny Lions in the Trees 🦁 |
| Hello! | Badlands, South Dakota, USA | Prairie Dog Town 🐿️ |
| ¡Hola! | Barro Colorado Island, Panama | The Loudest Monkey in the World 📣 |
| Hello! · Weh di go aan? (Belize Kriol) | Belize Barrier Reef | The Big Blue Hole 🕳️ |
| Olá! | Benagil Sea Cave, Portugal | The Cave With a Sky Window 🪟 |
| Sälemetsiz be! | Betpak-Dala, Kazakhstan | The Sneezy-Nose Antelope 🤧 |
| Dzień dobry! | Białowieża Forest, Poland | The Last Wild Bison 🦬 |
| Saqarik! (K'iche': good morning) · ¡Hola! | Biotopo del Quetzal, Guatemala | The Bird With the Longest Tail 🪶 |
| Grüß Gott! · Guten Tag! | Black Forest, Germany | The Cuckoo Clock Forest 🕰️ |
| Bon dia! (Papiamentu) | Bonaire | The Fish That Makes Beaches 🏖️ |
| Hey y'all! | Bracken Cave, Texas, USA | The Bat Tornado 🦇 |
| Agandi! (Rukiga) | Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda | Gorilla Drum Roll 🦍 |
| ¡Buenas! | Cabo Polonio, Uruguay | The Town With No Lights 🔦 |
| Hello! | Cairngorms, Scotland | The Hare That Changes Colour 🐇 |
| Bonjour! | Camargue, France | White Horses in the Water 🐎 |
| ¡Hola! | Caño Cristales, Colombia | The Liquid Rainbow 🌈 |
| ¡Hola! | Chiloé Island, Chile | The World's Tiniest Deer 🦌 |
| Namaste! | Chitwan, Nepal | The Long-Nose Crocodile 🐊 |
| G'day! | Christmas Island, Australia | The Great Red Crab Rush 🦀 |
| Hello! · Tânisi! (Cree) | Churchill, Manitoba, Canada | The Polar Bear Snow Cup 🏆 |
| Ciao! | Cingino Dam, Italian Alps | Goats on a Wall 🧗 |
| Napaykullayki! (Quechua) · ¡Hola! | Colca Canyon, Peru | The Biggest Wings in the Sky 🦅 |
| G'day! | Coober Pedy, Australia | The Underground Town 🕳️ |
| G'day! | Daintree Rainforest, Australia | The Dinosaur Bird 🦖 |
| Bună ziua! | Danube Delta, Romania | The Pelican Pouch 🦤 |
| Aslema! | Douz, Tunisia | The Fox With the Biggest Ears 🦊 |
| ¡Hola! | Doñana, Spain | The Lynx With Paintbrush Ears 🐱 |
| Konnichiwa! · Irankarapte! (Ainu) | Eastern Hokkaido, Japan | Snow Fairies & Dancing Cranes 🕊️ |
| Servus! | Eisriesenwelt, Austria | The World of the Ice Giants 🧊 |
| Olá! | Emas National Park, Brazil | The Glowing Termite Castles 🏰 |
| Hello! | Everglades, Florida, USA | Pink Spoon Birds 🥄 |
| Good mornin'! | Exuma, Bahamas | Pigs That Swim 🐷 |
| Olá! | Fernando de Noronha, Brazil | Dolphins That Spin 🌀 |
| Hiya! | Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland | The Giant's Soccer Stones ⬡ |
| Hello! | Glacier National Park, Montana, USA | Fluffy Cliff Climbers 🐐 |
| Habari za asubuhi! (good morning) | Gombe Stream, Tanzania | Chimps With Tools 🔧 |
| Olá! | Gorongosa, Mozambique | The Sneeze Vote 🤧 |
| Hello! + one hello from every season | Great Bear Rainforest, Canada | The Spirit Bear World Cup 🏆 |
| Howdy! | Great Smoky Mountains, USA | The Fireflies That Blink Together 💡 |
| Horas! (Batak) | Gunung Leuser, Sumatra, Indonesia | The World's Biggest (Stinkiest) Flower 🌺 |
| Szia! | Hortobágy, Hungary | The Five-Horse Rider 🐎 |
| Sain baina uu! | Hustai National Park, Mongolia | The Last Wild Horses 🐴 |
| Salibonani! (isiNdebele) | Hwange, Zimbabwe | The Elephant Pool Party 🐘 |
| Aluu! | Ilulissat, Greenland | Icebergs as Big as Buildings 🏔️ |
| ¡Hola! | Isla de la Plata, Ecuador | Blue Feet Dance-Off 🩵 |
| Halò! (Scottish Gaelic) | Isle of Mull, Scotland | The Flying Barn Door 🦅 |
| Mbote! (Lingala) | Ituri Forest, DR Congo | Zebra Legs, Giraffe Face 🦓🦒 |
| Honjeopsyeoye! (Jeju: "welcome!") · Annyeonghaseyo! | Jeju Island, South Korea | The Island Cup with the Diving Grandmas 🏆 |
| Sawasdee! | Kaeng Krachan, Thailand | The Panda-Eyed Monkeys & the Big-Beak Birds 🐵 |
| Mawnin'! (Guyanese) | Kaieteur Falls & Iwokrama, Guyana | The Orange Bird & the Golden Frog 🧡 |
| Kia ora! | Kaikōura, New Zealand | The Gymnast Dolphins 🤸 |
| Akwaaba! (Twi: welcome) | Kakum National Park, Ghana | The Bridge in the Sky 🌉 |
| Zdravstvuyte! + every Season 12 hello | Kamchatka, Russia | The Geyser Cup 🏆 |
| Salam! | Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan | The Golden Horses ✨ |
| Nomoskar! (Assamese) | Kaziranga, India | The Armoured Unicorn 🦏 |
| Zdravo! | Kikinda, Serbia | The Town of 700 Owls 🦉 |
| Hei! | Kirkenes, Norway | The Giant Crab Under the Ice 🦀 |
| Selamat pagi! | Komodo Island, Indonesia | Real-Life Dragons 🐉 |
| Suosdei! | Kratie, Mekong River, Cambodia | The Smiling Dolphins 😃 |
| Avuxeni! (Xitsonga) | Kruger National Park, South Africa | The Dung Beetle World Cup 🪲 |
| Hello! | La Jolla, California, USA | The Fish That Dance on the Beach 🕺 |
| Nanga def! (Wolof) | Lac Rose, Senegal | The Pink Lake 🩷 |
| Jullay! | Ladakh, India | The Ghost Cat ❄️ |
| Privet! | Lake Baikal, Russia | The Glass Lake 🫧 |
| Moni! (Chichewa) | Lake Malawi, Malawi | The Rainbow Fish Lake 🐟 |
| Habari! | Lake Manyara, Tanzania | Lions in the Trees 🦁 |
| Kamisaraki! (Aymara) | Lake Titicaca (Isla del Sol), Bolivia | Reed Boats & the Giant Wrinkly Frog 🐸 |
| G'day! | Lamington National Park, Australia | The Bird That Steals Blue Things 💙 |
| Lumela! | Lesotho | The Kingdom in the Sky 🐴 |
| G'day! | Litchfield National Park, Australia | The Running Dragon Lizard 🦎 |
| Mbolo! (Fang) | Loango National Park, Gabon | Hippos That Surf 🏄 |
| Oli otya! (Luganda) | Mabamba Swamp, Uganda | The Dinosaur Stork 🦖 |
| Hello! | Maine North Woods, USA | The Moose & the Crazy-Laughing Bird 🫎 |
| Allillanchu! (Quechua) · ¡Hola! | Manú National Park, Peru | Mustache Monkeys & the Rainbow Cliff 🌈 |
| Sopa! (Maa) + every Season 8 hello | Masai Mara, Kenya | The Great Migration Cup 🏆 |
| ¡Hola! | Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador | The See-Through Frog 🐸 |
| ¡Hola! | Monarch Butterfly Reserve, Michoacán, Mexico | A Billion Orange Wings 🦋 |
| ¡Hola! | Monfragüe, Spain | Storks on the Rooftops 🏠 |
| Hello! | Monterey Bay, California, USA | Sea Otter Hand-Holding Club 🦦 |
| Maayong buntag! (Cebuano: good morning) | Mount Apo, Mindanao, Philippines | The Eagle With a Lion's Mane 🦁 |
| ¡Hola! · Olá! · Hello! (three countries meet here!) | Mount Roraima (Venezuela, Brazil & Guyana) | The Toad That Rolls Like a Ball 🐸 |
| Bonjour! | New Caledonia | The Bird That Barks 🐕 |
| Hello! | New Forest, England | Ponies, Donkeys & the Piggy Acorn Hunt 🐷 |
| G'day! | Ningaloo Reef, Australia | The Biggest Fish in the World 🐋 |
| Dumela! | Okavango Delta, Botswana | Swimming Elephants 🐘 |
| Konnichiwa! | Okunoshima (Rabbit Island), Japan | 1,000 Bunnies 🐰 |
| Olá! + every Season 9 hello | Pantanal, Brazil | The Wetland Cup 🏆 |
| ¡Hola! | Paracas & Ballestas Islands, Peru | Desert Penguins 🐧 |
| Kuzuzangpo la! | Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan | The Red Panda & the Dancing Cranes 🦊 |
| Bonjour! · Adishatz! (Gascon) + every Season 10 hello | Pic du Midi, French Pyrenees | The Starlight Cup 🏆 |
| Hello! | Platte River, Nebraska, USA | Half a Million Dancing Cranes 💃 |
| Bok! | Plitvice Lakes, Croatia | The Waterfall Staircase 💦 |
| Ullaakkut! (Inuktitut: good morning) | Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada | Unicorns of the Sea 🦄 |
| Živjo! | Postojna Cave, Slovenia | The Baby Dragons 🐉 |
| Bonzour! (Seychellois Creole) | Praslin & La Digue, Seychelles | The Giant Tortoise Race 🐢 |
| Tashi delek! | Qinghai, Tibetan Plateau, China | The Square-Faced Fox 🦊 |
| Nǐ hǎo! | Qinling Mountains, China | Blue-Faced Monkeys & the Brown Panda 🐼 |
| Selamat siang! | Raja Ampat, Indonesia | The Shark That Walks 🦈 |
| Ahlan! | Ras Mohammed, Red Sea, Egypt | The Giant Fish With a Big Bump 🐟 |
| Hello! | Redwood National Park, California, USA | The Tallest Trees & the Yellowest Slug 🐌 |
| G'day! | Rottnest Island, Australia | The Happiest Animal in the World 😊 |
| Supa! | Samburu, Kenya | The Giraffe-Gazelle 🦒 |
| Xin chào! | Sapa, Vietnam | The Giant Green Staircase 🌾 |
| ¡Hola! | Sea of Cortez (Espíritu Santo), Mexico | Rays That Can Fly 🪽 |
| Selam! (Amharic) | Simien Mountains, Ethiopia | The Bleeding-Heart Monkeys ❤️ |
| Ayubowan! | Sinharaja Forest, Sri Lanka | The Bird Parade 🐦 |
| Xin chào! | Son Doong Cave, Vietnam | A Jungle Inside a Cave 🌳 |
| Salamatsyzby! | Song-Köl Lake, Kyrgyzstan | The Eagle Catchers 🦅 |
| Hello! (only scientists live here!) | South Georgia | 100,000 Penguins 🐧 |
| Muli bwanji! (Nyanja) | South Luangwa, Zambia | The Rainbow Cliff Birds 🌈 |
| Nomoskar! · Assalamu alaikum! | Sundarbans, Bangladesh | The Tiger That Swims 🐅 |
| Gamarjoba! | Svaneti, Georgia | The Tower Village 🏰 |
| Hej! · Buorre beaivi! (Northern Sámi) | Swedish Lapland | The Ice Hotel 🧊 |
| Apa khabar! | Taman Negara, Malaysia | The Oreo Animal 🍪 |
| Selamat pagi! | Tangkoko, Sulawesi, Indonesia | Giant Eyes in the Dark 👀 |
| Halo! (Bislama) | Tanna Island, Vanuatu | The Fireworks Volcano 🎆 |
| Gude! (Tok Pisin) + every Season 11 hello | Tari Highlands, Papua New Guinea | The Birds of Paradise Cup 🏆 |
| G'day! | Tasmania, Australia | Square Poop & Grumpy Devils 🟫 |
| ¡Hola! | Teide, Tenerife, Spain | Wild Canaries on a Volcano 🐤 |
| Khamma ghani! (Rajasthani) | Thar Desert, Jaisalmer, India | The Golden Fort & the Jumping Antelope 🦌 |
| ¡Hola! · ¡Che! | The Pampas, Argentina | Owls That Live Underground 🦉 |
| Wha' happenin'! | Trinidad | The Birds That Click in the Dark 🐦 |
| Dumela! (Setswana) | Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa | The Animal That Rolls Into a Ball 🔄 |
| Goddag! | Tønder Marsh, Denmark | The Black Sun 🌑 |
| ¡Hola! | Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina | The End of the World Train 🚂 |
| Mālō e lelei! + every Season 3 hello | Vava'u, Tonga | The Whale Song Cup 🏆 |
| ¡Hola! | Vieques (Mosquito Bay), Puerto Rico | The Water That Glows 💧 |
| ¡Hola! | Vizcaíno Desert & San Ignacio Lagoon, Mexico | Friendly Whales in the Desert 🐋 |
| Ahlan wa sahlan! | Wadi Rum, Jordan | The Valley of the Moon 🌙 |
| Marhaba! | Wahiba Sands & Ras al Jinz, Oman | Baby Turtles Under the Stars 🐢 |
| Kia ora! | Waitomo Glowworm Caves, New Zealand | A Cave Full of Stars ✨ |
| Namaskaram! | Western Ghats, Kerala, India | The Rainbow Squirrel 🐿️ |
| Hello! · ¡Hola! | White Sands, New Mexico, USA | The Snow That Isn't Snow ⛄ |
| Molo! (isiXhosa) | Wild Coast, South Africa | The Sardine Run 🐟🐟🐟 |
| Nǐ hǎo! + every Season 2 hello | Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China | The Rainforest Cup 🏆 |
| Konnichiwa! | Yakushima, Japan | The Monkey & Deer Best Friends 🦌🐒 |
| Dorooboo! (Sakha) | Yakutia, Russia | The Coldest Village on Earth 🥶 |
| Yassou! | Zakynthos, Greece | The Moonlight Turtle Race 🐢 |
| Mambo! (answer: Poa!) | Zanzibar, Tanzania | The Spice Island Monkeys 🐒 |
| ¡Hola! | Zapata Swamp, Cuba | The Smallest Bird on Earth 🐝 |
| Nǐ hǎo! | Zhangjiajie, China | The Floating Mountains ⛰️ |
Tip for parents and teachers: pick one greeting each day, find the place on a map, and watch the episode together.