Far
north tropical Queensland is a beautiful place to visit.
The road between Cairns and Cape Tribulation is beautiful. In its
southern half is the stretch between Cairns Northern Beaches and Port
Douglas, which on a sunny day is one of the prettiest drives in
Australia.
Its northern half goes through Daintree National Park and
the world's oldest rainforest. It goes past some great towns,
rainforest gorges, crocodile-infested rivers, and
some of the healthiest parts of the Great Barrier Reef.
Far North Tropical Queensland - Cairns Travel Information Cairns
is a
beautiful tropical city. It's vibrant and colourful, and it is
surrounded by rainforest-covered mountains, so wherever you watch, you
know that you are in the tropics. One museum is all it has got, but
it's not about museums up here! It's about tropical lifestyle with a
lot of things that can be done outdoors.
Cairns' Esplanade has a
beachfront swimming pool, a great walking/jogging track, and a lot of
outdoors bars and restaurants. Right next door is the city centre with
Cairns Night Markets, Casino (with the famous Cairns
Wildlife Dome), the Pier Marketplace and Cairns Marina (crocodile
watching tours and croc farm trips, as well as a heap of
great trips
to the Great Barrier Reef). Other outdoors adventures include skydiving
and white water rafting (Barron
River as well as the famous Tully
River). It's so easy to have a lot of fun in Cairns :-)
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Cairns
accommodation includes a good vaiety of hotels like hotels like All
Seasons Hotel, Best
New Chalon Hotel, Coral
Tree Inn, Discovery
Hotel, Great
Northern Hotel, Hilton
Hotel, Holiday
Inn, Mantra
Esplanade Hotel, Mercure
Hotel Harbourside, Oasis
Inn, Pacific
International Hotel, Pullman
Reef Hotel, Shangri
La Hotel, and holiday
apartments such as Alassio on the Beach
Apartments, Cairns
City Apartments, Cairns
Luxury Apartments, Marlin
Waters Beachfront Apartments, Reef
Palms Apartments, Roydon
Beachfront Apartments, Villa
Paradiso Beachfront Apartments, Waters
Edge Apartments.
There are also motels
such as All Round Motel Inn
the Pink, Cannon
Park Motel, Heritage
Motel, High
Chaparral Motel, Rainbow
Inn, and Tropicana
Lodge Motel; resorts
such as Angsana Resort,
Blue
Lagoon Resort, Bohemia
Resort, Coral
Reef Resort, Koala
Beach Resort, Mango
Lagoon Resort, Reef
House Resort, Rydges
Esplanade Resort, Skinny
Dips Resort & Spa, and Turtle
Cove Resort. and backpacker
hostels such as Cairns
Beach House, Cairns
City Backpackers, Cairns
Holiday Lodge, Waterfront
Backpackers, Calypso
Backpacker Inn, Caravella
Backpackers Hostel, Figtree
Lodge, Gilligans
Backpackers, Global
Backpackers, Global
Backpackers Waterfront Hostel, Nomads
Backpackers, Nomads
Esplanade Backpackers, Reef
Backpackers Resort. See
the full
list of Cairns
accommodation.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Green Island Queensland Just off the
coast of Cairns
are a few great islands. Green
Island is a beautiful coral cay
-
small and flat, quick to walk around, and has some great snorkelling
around it. There is the Green
Island Resort
with a swimming pool and outdoors bars and restaurants. And there is
the Marineland Melanesia, home for the largest captive crocodile in
Australia. The cheapest way to get to the island is the
day
trip from Cairns (there are half
day trips too but they are not a lot cheaper). Other ways are
a scenic
helicopter flight, a sailing
cruise, and a three
day trip from Cairns.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Fitzroy Island Queensland Fitzroy
Island is not a coral cay but a continental
island, which means it is larger, more montainous, and has
more
bushwalking tracks, including the one to the island's highest point.
But it doesn't mean that it hasn't got coral reef around it -
snorkelling is just off shore, and snorkelling gear can be hired. There
is the Fitzroy
Island Resort
that has a swimming pool, bars and restaurants. The cheapest way to get
to the island is a day trip from Cairns.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Machans Beach and
Wangetti Beach
North of Cairns are Cairns
Northern Beaches
- Machans, Holloways, Yorkey's Knob, Trinity
Beach, Kewarra Beach, Clifton Beach and Palm Cove.
And the places to stay
include hotels
and motels such as Mantra
Heritage Hotel, Palm
Villas Hotel, Peninsula
Botique Hotel, Reflections
Hotel, Sheraton
Mirage Hotel, Tropical
Nites Holiday Townhouse Hotel and Port
Douglas Motel.
There are also a lot of resorts
such as Bay
Villas, Beachside
Resort, Club
Tropical, Freestyle
Resort, Hibiscus
Resort and Spa, Mantra
Aquerous on Port Resort, Mantra
on the Inlet Resort, Mantra
Portsea Resort, Peppers
Beach Club Resort, Port
Douglas Sands Resort, Reef
Club Resort, Rydges
Sabaya Resort, Sea
Temple Resort, and Shantara
Resort; and holiday
apartments such as At
the Mango Tree, Balboa
Apartments, Beach
Terraces, Boathouse
Apartments, Le
Cher du Monde Apartments, Martinique
on Macrossan Apartments, Queenslander
Apartments, Saltwater
Luxury Apartments, The
Pavilions Apartments, Verandahs
Botique Apartments, and Whitehouse
Holiday Apartments.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Mossman Queensland
North of Port Douglas is the small town Mossman,
and just outside the town is the beautiful Mossman
Gorge in the Mossman Gorge section of Daintree
National Park. It’s a beautiful gorge with cool water
surrounded by
lush tropical rainforests.
There is a great walk through the
rainforest, past some massive butress roots and strangler fig trees.
And there is a great swimming hole even though it can get crowded. A
place to stay is the Mossman
Motel Holiday Villas.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Daintree Rainforests
Further north is the northern section of Daintree National Park.
Daintree River is a great place to watch the deadly saltwater
crocodiles. The tours
are not expensive and the sightings can be almost guaranteed. Some
tours
also depart from Daintree
Village just south of the river.
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Far North Tropical Queensland - Cape Tribulation Australia
North of Daintree River is the Cape
Tribulation
section of Daintree National Park. It is a beautiful section of
rainforest, but it is also quite commercialised. In the southern end,
there is the Daintree Discovery Centre where you can learn all about
Daintree
rainforest. There are also some boardwalks through the rainforests
and mangrove habitat, as well as a Bat House, an Insect Museum and a
lookout point with views over the coast. There are also some fruit, tea
and coffee farms as well as ice cream factories. There is one pub, a
few
shops, some camping
grounds and plenty of accommodation, such as Jungle
Lodge, Ferntree
Hostel, Cape
Tribulation Resort & Spa, Wait
a While Retreat, Daintree
Heritage Lodge and Bloomfield
Lodge.
And there are tours
you can join if you want to save time.
This is as far as you are meant to go in a two
wheel drive - any further north from here is the famous Bloomfield
Road to Cooktown and the rest of Cape
York Peninsula. If you don't want to drive yourself, there
are
handy trips
to Bloomfield Track, as well as one
day and two
day trips to Cooktown!
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Here's a far north tropical Queensland map,
where I have tagged the places that I mentioned on this web page. You
can click on the tags to see what places they are, and double-click
anywhere on the map to zoom it in and see the places closer. Drag the
map to move around, and if you want to see the satellite image with
Google Earth, click on "Sat" in the top right hand corner.
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