Bay Village Cairns

Bless you, you bothered to read my travelogue! This is a journal of my round-the-world trip that will take in South-East Asia, Australia, and South & Central America, making sure that it's spring or summer everywhere I go so that I may maintain that ...

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The three of us are embarking on an epic journey to New Zealand (via Hong Kong), Australia, Bali and South East Asia for six months in the hope of "finding ourselves"...naah just kidding, to find the perfect tan of course... and a culture shock or two. ...

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... our bags at a surprisingly modern airport, we were off to our motel/apartment.  We booked a three-bedroom place at the Bay Village Tropical Retreat.  We dropped off our bags and walked down to the esplanade.  It was already after sunset ...

... up watching the rest of the match in the casino down the road!! It wasn’t as busy as we had expected in Cairns, I think tourism has suffered because of the volcano and the recession, that’s probably why we haven’t found anywhere that ...

... gebucht. Danach habe ich meinen Mietwagen abgeholt und im Hostel eingecheckt. Calypso war mit Abstand das beste Hostel in Cairns. Super familiaere Athmosphaere. Essen war gut und billig. Klimaanlage, Bar und nette Zimmer. Und einfach nur coole Leute. Am ...

... in Cairns nicht ganz so heiß wie im Outback, wahrscheinlich so um die 30 Grad, aber angenehmes Klima hier. Nach unserem Trip sind wir noch am Hotelpool gewesen und jetzt werden wir noch das Nachtleben von Cairns erkunden und mal was gutes essen. ...

... wir das Hotel in Alice Springs verlassen und machten uns auf zum Flughafen. Der Flughafen ist recht überschaubar ;-) Der Flug nach Cairns startete überpünktlich, nach ca. 2 Stunden sind wir in Cairns gelandet. Nachdem wir das Gepäck erhalten haben ...

... Beach first,which looks good. Find a Big 4, but no rooms, so carry on North, along a no-through-road, to find the next village. It looks pretty grim, not much light, not what we remember, but there is a caravan park which has a spare cabin, so we book ...

... over the waterfall as a means of getting to the other side, it was known as the flying fox. Kuranda was a typical tourist village, once a gold mining town it was now all about the tourism.  There were a number of things to do, butterfly ...

... up a hire care and drove to our motel to drop off the bags. we were going to go to kuranda, a small village in the rainforest just outside cairns, but the motel receptionist came up with a better way of doing it. firstly we took the cable car from ...

Arrived in Byron Bay. Checked into the Holiday Village Hostel. Hostel was OK but wouldnt wanna stay there to long. It was right opposite Cheeky Monkeys. Which if you know what that is its not to great living opposite it. You end up parting every night. So ...

... - Monday 22 March Wake up at 7 to another wet and windy day. Tropical Cyclone Grace is kicking up a storm off the coast of Cairns. Many roads around the area are closed off. We get up and say another sad goodbye to Briggs then drive north towards the ...

... of years old and the beach drive was fabulous. The worlds largest sand island is amazing. Long overnight on the coach to Airlie Beach, tomorrow another adventure on a sailing catermeran out to the Whitsundays. then off upto Cairns and cape ...

... small but pretty waterfall at Barron Station. Then we hopped back on the skyrail to finish our journey to Kuranda. The village of Kuranda was full of life but our favorite part was the Butterfly Sanctuary. We saw thousands of tropical butterflies ...

... beach and then through the lush forest where we took a dip in the pristine fresh water pool. On the way back to Cairns we stopped at Daintree Village for lunch, had a croc burger.. tasted kinda fishy! The Great Barrier Reef Up early 6.30am for our great ...

... away from there. We also found out that the main dam is called Wivenhoe Dam! (For those people who don't know us that's the village where we live). We headed downstairs where we went online to email our hostels and change all of our bookings, as well as ...

... There are several stations along the long route and it takes about an hour to reach the end of the line, where there is a village called Kuranda which has sprung up in the mountains sheltered by the forest. As you would expect the place is full of ...

... it was finally time for me to get behind the wheel. A (smooth) few hours later we were in Rainbow Beach. A tiny village, literally a row of 10 buildings and the most gorgeous beach. Long stretches of sand with crystal clear warm water and hardly anyone ...