Cairns is a symbol of the Great Barrier Reef. Innings strip of land that stretches along the Port of Cairns, gives the city a stamp of luxury. Except for the coastal strip, given up the hotels, the city to some extent, live in the same pace as in the beginning of the century, and in architecture clearly shows the influence of the colonial era (eg, the old Post Office Building and Courthouse). Cairns – a friendly town where people smile and greet each other on the streets. Being the "capital" of the Far North Queensland, Cairns serves as a staging point for all tourists coming into the area. Cairns is also the most popular tourist city of the east coast, the center of many outdoor activities, not only diving in the Great Barrier Reef, but also white water rafting, horseback riding, and bungee jumping. In the city there is no beach, but just to the north is the beautiful beaches – on the Marlin Coast, Palm Cove. Cairns is surrounded by marshes and mangrove trees. At the Esplanade, the main street of the city, the sea is very shallow. At low tide the beach is a muddy puddle, stretching infinitely far away.
Attractions
The rapid development of tourism has destroyed much of the peculiar charm of this tropical colonial city, but, fortunately, there are virtually no large buildings. Ornamental banana trees with fan-shaped leaves and bright red, similar to parakeets, are growing about the noble neo-classical buildings.
City Centre City Place and the pedestrian street, located behind the esplanade, beach shadowing their banyan-trees. At the end of the Esplanade is a passenger terminal, where the anchored cruise and excursion vessels, and boats designed for fishing for large fish, which is famous district.
The shopping center PIER in a fresh atmosphere, air conditioned shops and eateries. Here you can watch street performances of Hawaiian singers, Papuan art exhibitions and visit on Sunday morning handicraft products (known as "dirty market"). Saturday morning, a market of fruits and vegetables. Tropical fruit, full sun, and very small bananas "ladies fingers".
In the city center at the corner of Lake and Shields the Museum of Cairns is located.
Cairns is not much night discos, as in the cities glowing Gold Coast. Here rather popular (especially among the young), small restaurants that are licensed to sell alcohol.
During the tour to Kuranda you will make a trip to the historic train on an old mountain road that led through tunnels and canyons, past waterfalls and rain forests in the mountain village of Kuranda. Here you can walk through the hundreds of souvenir shops, restaurants, or visit the greenhouse, tropical butterflies, which will take you directly to the arms, shoulders, on his nose. After that, you go down to the sea on a 7-kilometer long cable car, paved over by impenetrable rain forests. Below you can visit the village of Aboriginal Tjapukai, where not only see how to sing and dance indigenous Australians, or how they get fire by friction, but can be trained to throw spears and boomerangs to throw.
Thrill and Wildlife invite you to an unforgettable jeep safari to the rain forests or river rafting, rafting on the famous mountain river Tully River. Finally, you can simply soak up the sun on the endless deserted beaches.