

| 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.
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| 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.
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April 2009 to March 2010 .......... | | | | | | |

Adults .................................................... | | |
Children ......... (4-14 Years of age) ...... | | |
Infants ............. (0-3 Years of age) ..... | | |
Family ... (2 Adults and 2 Children) ...... | | |
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.


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
