Wednesday 17th June CAIRNS
Today we drove up to Kuranda (The village in the rainforest) http://www.kuranda.org/ 1000 feet above sea level and 20000 years of Aboriginal culture. We checked out the railway station which is just as we remember it. We decided not to do the train journey up from Cairns as we have done it before and also it would have cost us about $100 each. This is for the train journey up to Kuranda and then the Sky train back to Cairns or you can do it the other way around http://www.skyrail.com.au/
This is one of Queensland favourite tourist’s attractions which are a great draw card for the many Japanese and Koreans who were walking through the markets.
We also walked all through the markets of local art, crafts and souvenirs and the Aboriginal Gallery. There were so many things to look at, the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary http://www.australianbutterflies.com/ The Kuranda Koala Gardens http://www.kolagardens.com/ and the Birdworld Kuranda http://www.birdworldkuranda.com/. These were just some of the few attractions that we saw. However we decided that we would follow the walking track along the Baron River and through the Jungle walk on a circuit back into the village. It took us much longer than we thought it would, maybe it was because we didn’t take the short cut back to the village and continued to do the whole circuit. The only people we saw on the walk were, believe it or not, the couple who are in the next caravan to us and were going the other way round. They were making their way back to the railway station as they had come up on the skyrail in the morning.
We sat in the park, had a rest and our picnic which we had brought along with us. This saved us having to choose from one of the many restaurants that are in Kuranda.
Drove down to the Baron falls, which we didn’t find that impressive as not much water was running however would be absolutely fantastic during the wet season I’m sure.
Made our way to the caravan park (Coolwaters) stopping off to buy a few supplies that we need for the continuation of our journey up to Cooktown, which will take us about 4-5 hours tomorrow.
Today we drove up to Kuranda (The village in the rainforest) http://www.kuranda.org/ 1000 feet above sea level and 20000 years of Aboriginal culture. We checked out the railway station which is just as we remember it. We decided not to do the train journey up from Cairns as we have done it before and also it would have cost us about $100 each. This is for the train journey up to Kuranda and then the Sky train back to Cairns or you can do it the other way around http://www.skyrail.com.au/
This is one of Queensland favourite tourist’s attractions which are a great draw card for the many Japanese and Koreans who were walking through the markets.
We also walked all through the markets of local art, crafts and souvenirs and the Aboriginal Gallery. There were so many things to look at, the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary http://www.australianbutterflies.com/ The Kuranda Koala Gardens http://www.kolagardens.com/ and the Birdworld Kuranda http://www.birdworldkuranda.com/. These were just some of the few attractions that we saw. However we decided that we would follow the walking track along the Baron River and through the Jungle walk on a circuit back into the village. It took us much longer than we thought it would, maybe it was because we didn’t take the short cut back to the village and continued to do the whole circuit. The only people we saw on the walk were, believe it or not, the couple who are in the next caravan to us and were going the other way round. They were making their way back to the railway station as they had come up on the skyrail in the morning.
We sat in the park, had a rest and our picnic which we had brought along with us. This saved us having to choose from one of the many restaurants that are in Kuranda.
Drove down to the Baron falls, which we didn’t find that impressive as not much water was running however would be absolutely fantastic during the wet season I’m sure.
Made our way to the caravan park (Coolwaters) stopping off to buy a few supplies that we need for the continuation of our journey up to Cooktown, which will take us about 4-5 hours tomorrow.
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