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Yungaburra
Travel Blogs from Yungaburra, Australia
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Yungaburra...A Slice of Paradise
This is a top pick! ... Mount Surprise and Yungaburra (FNQ equivalent of Daylesford in Victoria). Listed by the National Trust of Queensland, Yungaburra Village is reminiscent of a bygone era with character filled old buildings just oozing charm. Dominating the main ...
Australia Holiday - Atherton Tablelands Part 3
... scenery I forgot to take a snap of the house itself !! Doh ... Taken from that great site - http://rainforest-australia.com/ - A must see for great information and better pictures :O) Taken from that great site http://rainforest-australia.com/A must ...
yungburra und lake eacham
yungburra isch es huebschs doerfli, echli verschlafe und alles andere als gross-staedterisch.s waetter isch isch super xi und gern hettemer am abig e busch tour gmacht zum tree kangaroos z erspaehe. leider het de guide kei ziit gah und so hemer halt ...
Atherton Tablelands
... It was a lovely hostel, and we had a nice evening with some wine and playing on their digeridoo's. ---DEUTSCH--- Yungaburra Am naechsten Tag gings weiter der Kueste entlang richtung Norden, nach einer kurzen Besichtigung von Mission Beach, gings ...
Down by the Banks
... ; quiet, peaceful, and pretty. Mrs. Swearingen liked the stream, but was hoping to see something else – a strange little animal unique to Australia; a mammal that lays eggs and has a bill like a duck. What do you think she was looking for? Next Mrs. ...
Malownicze okolice Cairns
... las zatrzymywal wiekszosc swiatla. Wyjechalismy posrod malowniczych pastwisk. Do pokonania zostala nam jeszcze przelecz miedzy Yungaburra a Cairns (43km), z przepieknymi widokami na sasiednie gory. Gdybysmy nie byli juz tak nieludzko zmeczeni wywarlyby ...
Strangling Figs and Falls
The Atherton tablelands offer a chance to see a different side to Queensland. That of lush green fields fields full of dairy cattle, rainforests dependant on the massive giant figs, and waterfalls galore. Our first day saw us set off from ...
Australia Holiday - Atherton Tablelands Part 2
... ; Well at least I know I'm not in New Zealand with place names like that :O) We stopped of at the Yungaburra township .. A pretty little old world village really ... The small local church provided some interest ...especially the large flowered ...
Hanging with the Aborigines, making music
Next was music class! We went to an Aboriginal home where Phil and Patrick taught us not only how to play a didgeridoo, but also how to make one. We started with the trees that they had chopped down several hours away. Termites had already ...
Water and Waterfalls
Today was the low point of the trip: the day from bloody hell aka won't this rain leave us alone? Maura got up for the Saturday markets, which turned out to be a dripping tent city with miserable venders complaining about the weather. Still, it was ...
Back To Civilization
... , trying to kill it. Don't feed the birds! Once back in Atherton, we stopped for strawberry ice cream at a strawberry farm, and then back to Yungaburra, where we learned that our motel is full-and the owner gives us a house to stay at instead! ...
To The Tablelands
... Farmdale.) Pretty cool. The entire place would be great for camping-swimming holes, wood fires-lovely. We finally made it to Yungaburra-a blink-and-you're-out kind of town. We were staying at the Curtain Fig Motel, a great little place with ...
Easter Road Trip
... to popular opinion, it was definitely worth it... We got to the Atherton Tablelands around lunchtime and drove to a place called Yungaburra. We managed to check into this wicked Pub/ Hotel place that was huge and full of character. The kind of place ...
Yodelling platypi
... the strangler fig. We could see why this place was sacred to the Aboriginals and it had a lovely serene atmosphere. The town of Yungaburra is tiny with houses with lacy iron porches and a crumbling old hotel. We were only sorry that we had a few ...
Exploring the Tablelands and Nash Parks
... inland. They look a bit like the Derbyshire Dales to be honest but a bit more spectacular. We were going to stop at a place called Yungaburra which is right in the heart of it all. Anyway, we got a good start to the day leaving at about 8.30 until Liz ...
A drive through the Atherton Tablelands
We traveled all day (ferry and car), to get to the Atherton region by sunset. This part of Australia ( Atherton Tablelands ) is quite different from anywhere else. It's an elevated hilly plateau (looks like mountains from the coast), and a lot of the ...
Day 2: Cape Tribulation to Yungaburra.
... more opportunities to charge us for what was a free national park. Passing through Atherton we then followed the signs for Yungaburra, a heritage village and home to On the Wallaby, our hostel for the night. Before leaving Tropic Days we had ...
Racing down the East Coast w/ Chad Wilson
... then walked in Sharon, who along with her mate Suz, and two lads from Bradford were definitely the best roommates I've had in Australia thrown together at random. We all got on quite well and to be honest, I missed Matt's broad Northern accent...good to ...
Yungaburra, Australia
Another 2 fun-filled days with On The Wallaby adventure tours in the Tablelands of Australia. These guys made me bike 12km (which was much too difficult for my level of fitness and I ended up walking my bike up one of the hills) around the ...
The trip North continued...
... refreshing temperature, and I tried not to think too hard about the fact that there was no bottom... That night we stayed at the Yungaburra hotel, a historic hotel built in the late 1800s. It reminded me a lot of Murphy's Inn (mom, grandma, you know what ...
Waterfalls route
... to photograph. Stops were at Milla Milla Falls, Zilli Falls and Ellinga Falls. Our final stop of the day was Yungaburra, apparently the accommodation capital of the Tablelands. Just down the road is the Curtain Fig Tree, an enormous and spectacular ...
Platypus in the Rain
... Kate and Matt. The living room was friendly and inviting so we grabbed our books and got to reading while it rained outside. Yungaburra is known for its platypus sightings and Chris has been anting to see a platypus since we first arrived in Aussie. We ...
On The Wallaby ... ouch ... My Bum Hurts!!!
Well i was picked up nice and early and after picking up everyone else our first stop was of course for a breakfast stop .. it is hard work all this touring you know! We then went to see a fruit bat colony and then drove up a hill which was 19km's ...
Wasserfälle und Seltsame Tiere
... Curtain Fig Tree vor den Toren Yungaburras musste natürlich auch noch ein Besuch abgestattet werden. Nachdem wir in Yungaburra eine Unterkunft gefunden hatten, machten wir einen Spaziergang dem Petersen Creek entlang. Dort soll man so etwas ähnliches ...
Atherton Tablelands
... is a series of cascades. Here I swam again and it was lovely. Really exotic! From here we meandered our way to Yungaburra, while munching on slabs of Cadbury’s chocolate that Sidney provided, where the tour office and backpackers was. We got tea ...
Grün, grüner, Tablelands
... Auch der berühmte Curtain Fig Tree (siehe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain_Fig_Tree) drei Kilometer außerhalb von Yungaburra war beeindruckend. Auf dem weiteren Weg nach Cairns kamen wir schließlich noch an den beiden Kraterseen Lake Eacham und ...
Up to the Atherton Tablelands
Instead of heading back to Cairns after leaving Port Douglas, we headed west inland to the tablelands. Its an area of forest and farmland, as you could imagine from its name, up fairly high and therefore a few degrees cooler than the tropical ...
Jun 06, 2009
We saw a wallabe on the wallabe
Just back from a two day minitrip into the Atherton Tablelands courtesy of a company called "On The Wallaby". It promised waterfalls, mountain biking, canoeing and nature which on the most part it delivered. It also dubiously branded itself as ...
Ssshhhh… We’re hunting platypus!
... ! Cool! There are a heap of small National Parks and Conservation Parks here so we called into a few on the way to Yungaburra – a town we’d practically been guaranteed to see platypus in (For those who don’t know, Darren has seen a ...
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