Heritage Cairns

... friends from my Egypt tour. Highlights include * Scuba diving at the great barrier reef. * Climbing the Sydney harbor bridge. * Sailing in the Whitsunday Islands. * Surfing at Surfers Paradise. * Visiting 4 of the UNESCO World heritage sites.

Short 2.5 hour flight from Darwin and quick taxi to hotel found me unpacking at the Heritage Cairns by 11:00AM. Room was ready early and is great value.  Only a 10 minute walk to the heart of the action in Cairns ( pronounced "Cans" believe it or not ...

... the Whitsunday's is early in the morning, we are overnighting in Cairns. We take a milk run shuttle from Port Douglas to the Heritage Cairns (decent enough room) and then head out for a day in Cairns.  We take both our umbrellas and our towels (and ...

... later, we were out near 30 bucks. Hell, I wasn't going to argue; after all, we had escaped with our lives!!! The Heritage Cairns was nice enough. Seemed like a smaller efficiency flanked on either side by churches and had a small, but nice hot tub. After ...

... see the Barron Gorge, the Falls and the area's rainforest. tomorrow i embark on a day tour north to the World Heritage Listed Daintree Rainforest, where i'll travel to the Mossman Gorge, ride down the Daintree River in search of crocs and spend ...

... eater of the year!) or rice and some form of gloop on top (can you tell which I normally go for?!) then we'll head to the Heritage. The free food from them for the last 2 weeks has been a sausage and a bun! Thats it!! Thats why we have two free meals!!! ...

... outside Cairns. It travels 7.5km just above the canopy of pristine tropical rainforest, which is part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage area. To be sat in a gondola skimming along above the treetops of a 120 million year old rainforest was amazing and ...

... Hackett, who is pretty much the pioneer and Father of Bungee Jumping, has a site about 20 minutes north of Cairns located in a World Heritage Rainforest and overlooking the Great Barrier Reef. The site is gorgeous, has a great atmosphere, and all the ...

... , just like captain Cook, we thought the following day we may have a 'chill out'......yeah right!!!  A walk around Cairns following the 'Heritage Trail', seeing all the very old buildings (80 years old) was nice and relaxing true enough.  We ...

... a week in Cairns Australia. Went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef and into the rainforest. We have been to so many World Heritage Sites I can't believe it myself. It has been just amazing. I bought a snorkel and mask 2 weeks ago and we went to ...

... ) which was originally constructed in 1891.  This was a spectacular journey comprising unsurpassed views of World Heritage Listed rainforest, steep ravines and picturesque waterfalls including Barron Gorge and Falls and Stoney Creek Falls and ...

... decided before... Anyway first stop was a 2/3 day trip up to Cape Tribulation a couple of hours north of Cairns in the World Heritage site (I’m definitely raking up my tally of these) of the Daintree Rainforest.  It’s where the ...

... underneath - so back then they had the same tropical rain we are suffering now. They call the old architecture here - Tropical Heritage Architecture. Cairns has an odd feel to it - about 20 years ago the population was 50-60K but has now doubled and is ...

... day. The gardens have a boardwalk where you can wander through rain forest. Queensland's wet tropics rain forest are world heritage listed, made up of 800 separate land parcels and 16 local authorities along the east coast between Cooktown and Townsville. ...

... we can see from space.  Due to the volume and variety of life it supports and its wondrous size, it was declared a World Heritage Site in 1981.  The reef itself is relatively young, only about 8000 years old, but it’s formation was put ...

... 't improve on that number.  After we left the cultural center, we took a ski lift (enclosed cars) 7.5 km over a World Heritage Tropical Forest site to Kuranda Village for lunch.  We concluded our final full day in Cairns at a wonderful seafood ...

... , brightly colored parrots, platypus and freshwater crocodiles. Or you can walk on the boardwalk through the rainforest, World Heritage, to the vantage point of Barron Falls. Buy Aboriginal artefacts, handmade leather items, wooden ware and jewelry, as ...

... . Quite a sight. In the evening we drove back toward the coast and headed north to the Diantree National Rainforest, a large world heritage site along the coast. We spent the night and the Cape Tribulation Beach House, a quiet and isolated property on a ...

... the heavy rain last week. At 10.30 we arrived in Kuranda located in the middle of World heritage rainforest and 1000ft above Cairns.    Kuranda has an alternative lifestyle feel to it and we enjoyed meandering through the different shops ...

... tours through areas of the rainforest. Kuranda is an interesting old town, unspoilt by modern developments and is part of the World Heritage site as is all the surrounding forestation. On the way back I travelled on the Kuranda Scenic Railway, which cuts ...