Airlie Beach to Cairns road trip: Distance, drive time & best stops

Airlie Beach to Cairns road trip: Distance, drive time & best stops

What to do in Cairns

Cairns is, for very good reason, one of Australia’s major tourism hotspots. There are scores of things to do in Cairns. Here are ten of the best…

Go on a Great Barrier Reef snorkelling cruise.

Travel on a train through the rainforest on the Kuranda Scenic Railway.

Savour a glass-bottom boat tour at Green Island.

Do a Fitzroy Island day trip.

Enjoy dinner at sea on an evening catamaran cruise.

Venture out to the Atherton Tableland waterfalls on a full day tour.

Head to Cape Tribulation and Mossman Gorge on a day tour.

Try white-water rafting in Barron Gorge National Park.

Fly over the Reef on a 40 minute scenic flight.

Go tubing on the Mulgrave River.

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