Cairns

Meals: Full Breakfast, Lunch, Two Course Dinner

Enjoy a FREE DAY today to explore Cairns on your own. Alternatively, day tours to Green Island are an option. **Lunch is at own expense today.

Cairns, Normanton, Karumba

Meals: Two Course Dinner

Late in the morning you will be transferred to Cairns’s airport for our Regional Express flight to Normanton. On arrival in Normanton we’ll transfer by coach to Karumba, where we’ll settle into our accommodation for the next two nights. Dinner this evening is at the popular Sunset Tavern across the road, where you’ll have’ front row seats’ to watch the spectacular sunset over the Gulf while enjoying dinner. Overnight: Ash’s Holiday Units, Karumba (B,D)

Karumba

Meals: Full Breakfast, Lunch, Two Course Dinner

Visit the Barramundi Discovery Centre and learn about the live breeding program. This afternoon we board the Sand Island sunset dinner cruise and soak up a Gulf Sunset feasting on gulf prawns, nibbles, beer, wine and bubbly.

Karumba, Normanton, Croydon, Cobbold Gorge

After breakfast we roll back across the flood plains and grasslands to Normanton and board the legendary Gulflander. Also known as the Tin Hare, the old rail motor has traversed the line between Normanton and Croydon every Wednesday for over a century on a unique line known as, “the line from nowhere to nowhere”. Our driver and guard keep the commentary rolling and the whole experience is a slice of authentic Australian bush travel, complete with the odd stop to drop off mail or allow wanderi...

Cobbold Gorge

Meals: Full Breakfast, Lunch, Two Course Dinner

This morning we take a thrilling helicopter flight, soaring over the vastness and beauty of the Gulf Savannah region. We then cross the glass bridge and take an electric powered boat cruise and glide through the gorge in almost eerie silence, ensuring minimal disturbance to wildlife. After lunch enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of this idyllic setting by the infinity pool

COBBOLD GORGE – FORSAYTH/EINASLEIGH – MOUNT SURPRISE

After breakfast this morning, staff from Cobbold Gorge Tours will transfer us to Einasleigh where we enjoy lunch at the iconic Einasleigh Pub right beside the vast Copperfield Gorge. In the mid-afternoon, the train pulls into Mount Surprise where we transfer to Undara Archway Explorer Tour of the fascinating lava tubes. The Lava Tubes are giant volcanic caverns—the oldest in Australia and the longest continuous tubes on Earth. Check-in to our accommodation at sunset, head back to Mount Surpr...

Mount Surprise, Cairns

The second leg of the Savannahlander journey to Cairns has us boarding early at Mount Surprise. The journey is full of rugged Outback scenery, and we’ll make a few stops: lunch at the Railway Hotel, Almaden; Dimbulah for afternoon tea; Barron Falls and the grand Barron Gorge; and finally, Cairns in the evening, where we’ll check into the centrally located Novotel Cairns Oasis Resort. After all the food we’ve enjoyed along the way, dinner this evening is at leisure. Overnight: Novotel Cairns O...

CAIRNS – Port Douglas – Mossman Gorge – Kuranda – Cairns

This morning we head north by air-conditioned coach to Mossman Gorge with a morning tea stop in Port Douglas along the way and some time to explore the famous Port Douglas markets. At the Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre, we enjoy a light lunch followed by a walk through the beautiful tropical rainforest in Mossman Gorge itself. After lunch we return to Cairns via Kuranda, “The Village in the Rainforest”. The Skyrail Gondola is a special experience that takes us down to the coastal plain, flyin...

Cairns – Atherton – Herberton – Cairns

After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for a tour of the region of the rich Atherton Tablelands. We start by travelling south across the Sugar Cane fields then up the steep Gillies Highway to the lush forests and farming country of the tablelands. First stop is the excellent Mining Museum, after which we take the short run to meet the team at the outstanding Herberton Historic Railway Museum. Here we learn about the restoration work and history of the railways of the tablelands before sampli...

Cairns Departure

Breakfast is at your leisure in the hotel and then you are free to continue on your way to other awaiting adventures. Tour terminates. All out, all change. Please mind the gap! (B) dates & pricing