Kuranda Hostels - Reviews and Rates

(Originally published at http://www.troysgonewalkabout.com)
< br>The Contiki day sheet in the foyer had instructed us to pack only a small bag for the first four days of the tour and leave the bulk of our luggage in the resort’s store room. Jeremy and I took our gear down there only to find the room empty – we were obviously the f...

For the past few months i have been keeping busy working my fair share of hours at the pub in Kuranda. However i have still been having my fair share of fun too. I go out regularly with my freinds on the weekends. Christmas and New Year ended up being fairly quiet due to work commitments, however that didnt disappoint me much as there just anoth...

I started off my day with laundry, not very exciting but it took far longer than i wanted and ended up costing 10 dollars just to wash and dry a few bits. Although the way my towel was smelling it could have happily walked itself to the washing wachine. Having one towel for beach and showering makes it smell like feet and dead rats. I then start...

Not much to say about today's journey but it did seem different to yesterday. One thing we noticed was the dead kangaroo's were missing! Blummin' hillbilly thieves. Oh, forgot to mention, there was a power failure in Cooktown overnight and it was still down this morning. We therefore couldn't get any petrol still, they just don't let you leave h...

Yesterday, we took a scenic train up to Kuranda, Australia which is really close to Cairns. Sonali and I were exhausted when we got on the train because of the scuba diving the day before. When we got up there we weren't even sure if we wanted to do anything we were feeling so bad, but after a while we felt a lot better and did somethings. We we...

Yesterday I embarked on a serious mission to lay around and do nothing. I swam in the pool, read, had lunch by the pool, laid out, sat on the beach, walked by the beach, picked up shells, and hoped that throughout all of this I wouldn't get too sunburnt--I didn't! The laziness possible in a Tropical climate is fantastic. Thankfully it isn't too ...

Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne... what can I say, other than "I absolutely loved it." I stayed with friends in their gorgeous house just five minutes from the beach and a ten minute tram ride into town. The only thing that I didn't like about Melbourne was the weather. Bright sunshine one minute, black skies and tornadoes the next. I made excel...

Christie and I had been waiting for our friend Dani to arrive in Cairns before taking a trip up to Kuranda, which is a village in the rainforest near Cairns. Most people do a tour where they take the train up via the Kuranda Scenic Railway and the Skyrail down or vice versa. The train was undergoing some fixing/maintenence or something rather so...

Today we went to Granite Gorge which is really nice and there are loads of rock wallabies that you can feed. We then headed down to Milaa Milaa falls, bit of a swim and then up to Kuranda. Spent the night in Kuranda Backpackers.

Having done all the necessaries to start our road trip we headed inland from Cairns towards Kuranda and the Atherton Tablelands. Kuranda is a wierd little 'town' in the hills about 30 km out of Cairns. It used to be a nice little hippy commune but it has since become a tourist hotspot during the day and lost any innocent ideals of quiet living a...