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Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park  

Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park showcases the "People of the Rainforest's" indigenous culture, allowing you to watch theatrical performances and engage in interactive activities to learn the traditional culture and customs of the Tjapukai people. Y ...

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Cairns Tropical Zoo  

The award winning Cairns Tropical Zoo, on the Captain Cook Highway at Palm Cove - 20 minutes north of Cairns is six hectares of tropically landscaped zoo featuring a natural habitat displaying Australia's unique animals - plus some international trop ...

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Barron Falls Lookout Track  

There are several modes of transport through Barron Gorge National Park, including the historic Kuranda train and the Skyrail cableway. They provide spectacular views of the Gorge and the Barron River far below. At the top of the gorge near Kuranda ...

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Bartle Frere Trail (West)  

Towering above the fertile coastal plain 70 kilometres south of Cairns in Wooroonooran National Park are the highest mountains in Queensland, Bartle Frere (1622 metres) and its neighbour Bellenden Ker (1593 metres). More than 8 metres of rain falls ...

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Bartle-Frere Trail (East)  

Towering above the fertile coastal plain within the Wooroonooran National Park, 70 kilometres south of Cairns are the highest mountains in Queensland, Bartle Frere (1622 metres) and its neighbour Bellenden Ker (1593 metres). The track begins at the ...

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Blue Arrow Walk  

The adventurous Blue Arrow track loops through the Mt Whitfield Conservation Park. It is a continuation of the Red Arrow walk and branches off near the top of the hill. Mt Whitfield and Mt Lumley are over 300 metres above sea level and offer spectac ...

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Buckin Mex Mexican Restaurant  

In Mexico, meal times are like mini-fiestas. A time for everyone to enjoy good food drink and each others company. Whether you're out for lunch or dinner, dining al fresco or their outdoor balcony or sitting in the colourful airconditioned dining roo ...

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C'est Bon French Restaurant  

Dining at C'est Bon French Restaurant is a truly unforgettable dining experience. Join Junelle and the team with Chef Samuel Daquin from Lille in France to savour the mouth watering delights from original classic French dishes. Samuels culinary talen ...

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Cable Ski Cairns  

Cable Ski Cairns offers a unique watersport experience for young and old. A man made freshwater lake offers wakeboarding, kneeboarding, and waterskiing for beginners through to advanced riders. An open view terrace with chairs and tables, and a kiosk ...

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Cairns Central Shopping Centre  

Cairns Central Shopping Centre is located in Cairns Central Business District, is open seven days and has over 180 specialty stores, plus Myer, Target, two supermarkets, six screen Cinema complex and an International Food Court. Services such as: ba ...

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Cairns Night Zoo  

The Cairns Night Zoo - A great Aussie night out! Come and see what the Aussies get up to after dark! This excellent evening activity operates every Monday to Thursday and Saturday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Included in the evening you will enjoy a ...

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Cairns Regional Gallery  

Cairns Regional Gallery is Far North Queensland's only visual art museum and in 2005 it celebrates it's 10th Birthday: a decade of documenting and presenting history, heritage and contemporary culture of this vast and distinctive region of Australia ...

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Cairns Wildlife Dome  

The Cairns Wildlife Dome is a spectacular all weather wildlife exhibit encased by a 20-metre high glass dome on the rooftop of the Sofitel Reef Casino Cairns. More than 60 species of magnificent rainforest animals and birds wander and fly freely thro ...

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Cazalys  

Cazalys is home of Australian Football in Cairns, their world-class sporting facilities have hosted national AFL games as well as International Cricket Matches and their social club is the home of the best value meals and entertainment in Cairns. Caz ...

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Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCA)  

The Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts (CoCA) brings together a variety of exciting art forms under one roof. Resident company, JUTE (Just Us Theatre Ensemble), a professional renowned theatre company presents an annual season of contemporary plays ...

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Cobia Hole Dive Site  

Located off Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Cobia Hole is a pinnacle of rocks covered with marine organism including sponges, soft coral, coralliamorpharians, feather stars, sea stars, sea squirts, shrimps, crabs and gobies. Loo ...

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Cod Hole Dive Site  

Cod Hole, located on Ribbon Reef no.10 on the Great Barrier Reef, is best accessed from Cairns or Port Douglas. Internationally recognised underwater photographers Ron and Valerie Taylor were the first to publicise this site. Swim with large friendly ...

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Coral Gardens Dive Site, Flynn Reef  

Coral Gradens, on the the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, features a wall that stretches from 5m to the surface along the reef edge, dropping away down 10 to 20m. Superb variety of corals on the plateau and down the slope. Clownfish, batfish, trout, c ...

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Douglas Track  

Barron Gorge is the traditional home of the Djabaguy people who have many special connections to this place. The Douglas and Smiths tracks, traditional pathways for the Djabaguy for thousands of years, became the first pack routes linking the hinter ...

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Dundees Restaurant On The Waterfront  

Dundee’s Restaurant captures the three ingredients of success at its best. Great Food, Great Location and Perfect Ambience. Locals can share in this magical location seven days a week, sharing an early sunrise over a sumptuous breakfast to the buz ...

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Fish Bowl Dive Site  

Hastings Reef in the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns is a large, popular diving and snorkelling reef and home to the "Fish Bowl". This site offers great protection from the prevailing South Easterly winds, which provides consistent diving and snorkelli ...

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Fitzroy Island Summit Circuit  

This walk in Fitzroy Island National Park travels through rainforest and open woodland, on route to a disused, wartime lighthouse. At the lighthouse, interpretational signage describes how the lighthouse was used during World War II. From the lighth ...

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Flecker Botanic Gardens  

Welcome to Flecker Botanic Gardens, the only wet tropic botanic gardens in Australia. At Flecker Botanic Gardens, the collections reflect their tropical diversity, with plants from the steamy jungles of South East Asia, South America and Africa easil ...

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Flinders Group National Park  

Flinders Group National Park protects seven remote and ruggedly attractive islands with a rich cultural landscape and heritage. The islands contain important Aboriginal story and burial sites, along with nationally significant rock art showing early ...

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Frankland Group National Park  

Frankland Islands National Park covers five islands, all popular for their relatively untouched rainforest, mangroves and surrounding reefs. A colony of spectacled flying-foxes roosts on Russell Island, while manta rays and sea turtles have been spot ...

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Goldfield Track  

The Goldfield Track in Wooroonooran National Park leaves Babinda Boulder and makes its way over the saddle between Mount Bellenden Ker and Mount Batle Frere, the two tallest mountains in Queensland, to the Goldsborough Valley. The track follows Babin ...

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Goldsborough Valley, Wooroonooran National Park  

Goldsborough Valley, Wooroonooran National Park is that section of the park nestled at the base of the rugged Bellenden Ker Range, protecting World Heritage-listed rainforest in the Mulgrave valley. The traditional homeland of the Yidinydji Aborigina ...

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Great Detached Reef Dive Site  

Located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, the Great Detached Reef is a large complex of several reefs on an older fossil surface. This reef has about 46km of edge. Wall diving and very steep down to over 400 metres with some small caves in the wa ...

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Green Island Fringing Reefs  

Green Island, located off Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef, is a true coral island surrounded by sandy beaches and a huge coral reef system. 4m above sea level, 606 metres long, 200 metres wide and half a kilometre in circumference. Good snorkelling, ...

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Hartleys Crocodile Adventures  

Hartley's Crocodile Adventures is simply the best place to see crocodiles and local wildlife in the North. With over 2100 metres of timber boardwalks and pathways leading you on a journey of discovery through woodlands and rainforest where you can se ...

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Iron Range National Park  

Iron Range National Park is a remote coastal park in northern Cape York Peninsula, protecting the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Australia. Rainforest, eucalypt and paperbark forests and heath-shrouded hills provide a backdrop to long ...

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Jardine River National Park and Heathlands Resources Reserve  

Jardine River National Park and Heathlands Resources Reserve is a true wilderness at the tip of remote Cape York Peninsula. It includes much of the catchment of the Jardine River, Queensland’s largest perennial river. Heath, rainforest and woodland ...

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Josephine Falls Circuit  

Josephine Creek begins as a trickle high on the south-east side of the summit of Mt Bartle Frere, Queensland's highest mountain. Approximately 7.5 kilometres from the summit of Mt Bartle Frere the waters of Josephine Creek tumble over granite boulder ...

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Kauri Creek Circuit  

This walking track in Danbulla State Forest and Forest Reserve follows the creek to Danbulla Drive and the Day Use area by the road. You can walk from here too. The walk continues upstream past pine forests and eventually enters intact rainforest an ...

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Ken Duncan Gallery  

For Cairns’ newest and most beautiful tourist attraction, look no further than the stunning Ken Duncan Gallery right in the heart of the city. Recognised as a master in his field, Ken Duncan is Australia’s original pioneer of panoramic landscape ...

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Kuranda Scenic Railway  

The original Kuranda Scenic Railway is a spectacular journey comprising unsurpassed views of dense rainforest, steep ravines and picturesque waterfalls. This famous railway winds its way on a journey of approximately one hour and 45 minutes from Cair ...

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Michaelmas and Upolo Cays National Park  

Part of Michaelmas and Upolo Cays National Park, Michaelmas Cay is one of the most important seabird breeding sites on the Great Barrier Reef. Michaelmas Cay is a small, low sand cay, covered by grasses and low-growing plants. Upolu Cay is a low, unv ...

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Michaelmas Cay Dive Site  

Michaelmas Cay, on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, is 10km long reef with a sand cay. Explore the bommies, walls, swim-throughs, gullies, small caves and overhangs. See Giant clams, blue-spotted rays batfish, cleaner stations, nudibranchs, crayfis ...

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Moore Reef Dive Site  

At Moore Reef, on the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, you can dive over staghorn thickets on sand that slopes and drops to 22m. Explore around the bommies or stay close to the reef edge. There is an abundance of hard coral, damselfish hide in the soft ...

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Mount Whitfield Conservation Park  

Mount Whitfield Conservation Park protects the closest rainforest to Cairns. The rainforested slopes of the Whitfield Range form a dramatic backdrop to the city. Walking tracks climb through shady rainforest gullies and dry open forest and grasslands ...

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Nandroya Falls Circuit  

Nandroya Falls Circuit is part of a network of walks in the Palmerston section of Wooroonooran National Park. Wooroonooran National Park is an integral part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Its fertile soils and extremely wet climate have fost ...

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Norman Reef Dive Site  

Off Cairns on the Great barrier Reef lies Norman Reef, where Maori Wrasse, moray eels, giant clams, anemones and their commensals are permanent features. Large bommies, staghorn thickets and hillocks of rich coral cover. Excellent swim-throughs and a ...

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Normanby Reef  

Normanby Reef is located in the Frankland Islands on the Great barrier Reef, a group of relatively untouched national parks about 12 km off the coast near Cairns. They are a group of continental islands with good beaches and some fine snorkelling. No ...

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Ochre Restaurant and Catering  

The Ochre is recognised both nationally and internationally as one of the most innovative modern Australian restaurants not only in Cairns, but Australia. Formerly Red Ochre Grill. Ochre restaurant offers a broad range of dining experiences to suit t ...

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Olivers – Australian Fine Cuisine  

Oliver's - Australian Fine Cuisine is located in the centre of Cairns. The quest to create a haven for food and wine lovers has been achieved when Oliver's first opened its doors in August 2006. Attention to detail, love of good food and wines, exqui ...

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Osprey Reef  

Osprey Reef is one of the most spectacular dive sites in the world, located off Cairns in the Coral Sea. The North Horn site on the reef is a remote sea mount rising 1000 m from the ocean floor. There are spectacular wall drop-offs, amazing visibili ...

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Outback Jacks Bar and Grill Cairns  

Outback Jacks Bar and Grill is a part of a new chain of Restaurants specialising in premium grade quality steaks and quality seafood, in a relaxed casual dining experience. This is the place for serious Steak Fans. The restaurant's are fitted out bea ...

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Outback Opal Mine  

To start your free visit to the Outback Opal Mine why not view the interesting eight minute documentary available in English, Japanese and German. Then take a walk through the simulated Opal mine to see a variety of rough black, boulder and crystal o ...

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Pixie Pinnacle Dive Site  

On the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, rising 30m and about 15m across, Pixie Pinnacles is a huge cone shaped 'pyramid' that is covered in corals hard and soft, gorgonians, sea whips and sponges. Underneath the overhangs and caves see lionfish, moray ...

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Pullman Reef Hotel Casino  

Pullman Reef Hotel Casino is Cairns' premier entertainment centre. This uniquely designed building features Australia's finest boutique casino, an extensive range of restaurants and bars, cabaret show and night club, and a luxurious five-star hotel. ...

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