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Cairns Tropical North Queensland Australia. The city is currently one of the most popular in the North Queensland area due to its closeness to Australia’s most striking treasures, namely the World Heritage rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef. The city of Cairns should definitely be a part of every North Queensland visit. With world class hotels, resorts and apartments offering great accommodation packages all year round your holiday dollar will stretch really well.
Cairns is approx 1700 kilometres from Brisbane, 2700 kilometres from Sydney, 2800 kilometres from Darwin and 3100 kilometres from Melbourne. It is also bounded on both sides by the Coral Sea and the Great Dividing Range, and becomes the meeting place of earth and water. The city’s has a hot a tropical climate during the summer months which mellows out in the winter months with a great winter sun that is both pleasant and refreshing this tropical climate always livens up its tourism industry by a huge degree.Although not directly part of the Great Barrier Reef, the city also enjoys a bustling trade of tourists as a neighbour of the Reef. An hour’s boat ride from the city will already take tourists straight to the world-renowned reefs, and Australia’s celebrated rainforests such as the Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation are all just short distances away. Cairns location is also strategically near Cape York Peninsula, Cooktown, and the Atherton Tableland.
The city of Cairns was originally built upon an area formerly called Gimuy. The name of the city, however, was taken from William Wellington Cairns, a former Queensland Governor. The area was initially built to serve the miners that made their way through the area as they headed to the goldfields found near the Hodgkinson River. Later years saw the city developed as a rail and port station for exported products from the Atherton Tableland region and other surrounding locations.
Although the city is known for its sugar production industry, the largest income received by the city comes from tourists. International visitors from Japan, America and England fill up all the 4 and 5 star hotels whilst families tend to stay in a resort or self contained apartment complex. Those on a budget are well catered to with Cairns having a large number of International backpackers that fill the local backpacker accommodation houses year round. Whilst they party hard by night in one of the many raging nightclubs or bars they tend to relax poolside by day.
Cairns tourism thrives due to its close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, and this is further improved by the large variety of attractions and National parks in the area, which includes Rainforestation Nature Park and the Tjaoukai Aboriginal Cultural Park. Tourists can also glimpse the awe-inspiring and much-protected World Heritage Australian rainforests through the Kuranda Skyrail Rainforest Cableway. Cairns is also strategically located near other top Australian tourist attractions such as the Wet Tropics of Queensland and the Atherton Tableland.
The city offers a scenic coastline banked by an esplanade, which features a safe swimming lagoon and a surrounding picnic and barbecue ground. Several tourists also venture forth to take the topless sunbathing challenge that has been permitted in the area since 2003. The nearby boardwalk allows locals and visitors to walk or bike around the foreshore.
Some of the more popular cities suburbs include Smithfield. The inland suburb is nestled against the Great Dividing Range and is squeezed in between Trinity Park and Yorkeys Knob. It is a pulsating hub of the Northern Beaches in the area and is home to a full-blown shopping arcade, the Smithfield Centre. Beyond Smithfield, the Barron River flood plain stretches out rather lazily to give way to four other suburbs in the city, namely Kamerunga, Freshwater, Stratford, and Caravonica.Aside from these, there are a lot of other suburbs in Cairns, and a trip through various suburbs will allow you to deeply explore and experience the true culture and distinct environment of the Tropical North Queensland playground. Other popular suburbs in the area includes Portsmith, Westcourt, Manunda, Manoora, Edge Hill, Kanimbla, Earlville, Bayview Heights, Woree, and the tiny Aeroglen near Mount Whitfield, among several others.
And finally be sure to visit or tryout some of the following popular activities in the area including backpacking, snorkelling, scuba diving, bungee jumping, golfing, scenic flights, white water rafting and day trips around the area to the crocodile farms, food and wine tours, and the fruit wineries.
Cairns truly is a Tropical North Queensland holiday playground for all to visit, explore, love and enjoy, see you soon!
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