The Highlander Food Trail Tour

Tour a Macadamias plantation on the Atherton Tablelands. This Australian nut, grows all along the Queensland Coast

A farmer talks about producing macadamias

This full day tour departs from Cairns, Queensland, six days a week.
 
There are informative farm tours, local food product tastings, and/or wine tastings throughout the day.
  
On this coach tour, you are able to interact with people running small family businesses, and gain amazing insights into local lifestyles. 
 
Your tour takes you "off the beaten track", away from the crowds.
 
Your day tour takes you to the amazing hinterland plateau known as the Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands), where your tour travels through both dry tropical savannah and wet tropical rainforest.


The worlds first tropical fruit wine region is a short drive from Cairns, Tropical North Queensland

Taste tropical fruit wines, ports, liqueurs, and creams at two wineries

Hear about lactose free cheese making and taste the cheeses at Gallo's on the Atherton Tablelands

Hear about making lactose free cheeses and taste them.

90% of Australia's coffee crop comes from Far North Queensland Tour a plantation and taste the coffee

Coffee at this farm is mechanically harvested and sun dried.

THE EXPERIENCE

  • Excellent food or wine tastings at every stop,
  • Informative plantation tours.
  • Interact with people who run small, family businesses.
  • Your informative guide explains how they grow and processes foods.
  • Sightseeing to the central Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands)
     

THE FOOD AND WINE

  • Taste wines at two tropical fruit wineries.
  • Cheese making talk and tastings at a boutique dairy.
  • Informative coffee plantation tour and tastings.
  • Interactive macadamia plantation tour with tastings.
  • A tropical seafood lunch featuring local produce is included.
  • Morning and afternoon tea are also included.
     

THE SIGHTSEEING

  • The amazing contrasts between the wet tropics and dry tropics.
  • Central Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands).
  • Cathedral Fig Tree. One of nature's awesome wonders.
  • Lake Barrine is a blue, volcanic, "Maar" crater lake
  • Rare Mabi rainforest, home to the elusive Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo.
  • Wet Tropics - World Heritage Rainforest with its red soils, massive tree canopy, understorey, and vine thickets.
  • Dry tropics - Savannah country, with its granite boulders, eucalypts and huge termite mounds.
  • Irrigated farming districts growing a huge variety of "tropical" produce", Coffee, Pineapples, Mangos, Sugar and more.
  • The only place in the world where they produce sugar, tea, coffee, and dairy products in one region.
  • The small Tableland towns of Mareeba, Tolga and Yungaburra

     
    Frequently Asked Questions are answered here.


Casual Kangaroo, Possum's Pleasure - Tropical fruit wines from Cairns - Tropical North Queensland

Black Pearl and Rolling Thunder Liqueurs

Visit the only Italians growing and roasting coffee on the Cairns Highlands

NQ Gold only sell coffee the way they roast it.

Near Atherton and Malanda, they graze dairy cows to produce milk, and cheese for the whole of Australia

Frank Gallo and his dairy cows.

Lake Barrine, is a volcanic "Maar" crater lake

Lake Barrine is a volcanic, Maar crater


Days Available
April 2009 to March 2010 .......... 
Monday  
Wednesday  
Friday  
Saturday  
 
 

Tour Prices           |Australian Dollars
Adults .................................................... 
$ 154.00 
 
Children ......... (4-14 Years of age) ...... 
$ 77.00 
 
Infants ............. (0-3 Years of age) ..... 
Free 
 
Family ... (2 Adults and 2 Children) ...... 
$ 442.00 
 

NOTE:

Due to increased fuel taxes a fuel surcharge of $2.00 per person will apply, from 1 July 2009.

This surcharge is payable on boarding, and subject to variation without notice.


Tour Inclusions

The Cathedral Fig Tree - Atherton Tablelands - Cairns - Queensland

Standing among the roots, of the amazing Cathedral Fig Tree

A tropical seafood lunch

Morning and afternoon teas

Tastings at two tropical fruit wineries

Coffee plantation tour and tastings

Macadamia Plantation tour and tastings

Cheese factory - cheese making talk and tastings

 

VISIT

The amazing Cathedral fig tree

Picturesque Lake Barrine

The twin Kauri Pine trees

Atherton Tablelands - Cairns Highlands

Mareeba - Tolga - Atherton - Yungaburra

 

TRANSFERS

From accommodation between Cairns and Palm Cove