Great Barrier Reef aerial view near Cairns
Queensland · Reef & Rainforest

Two World Heritage sites,
one short flight apart.

The Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest, arranged so your clients see both properly, not just glimpse them.

Destinations Queensland Cairns
About Cairns

Cairns is the gateway to the only place on earth where two World Heritage-listed ecosystems sit side by side: the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest. Most day trips let visitors tick a box on each. We build itineraries that give proper time to both -- a full-day reef pontoon experience with a marine biologist on board, and a Daintree guide who has spent a career reading the rainforest.

Cairns also works as a launch point for the wider tropical north: the Atherton Tablelands' waterfalls and coffee plantations, Port Douglas's four-mile beach, and Kuranda's Skyrail rainforest cableway all extend naturally from a Cairns base.

Best For
Reef diving & snorkelling Rainforest walks Family adventure Marine wildlife
Best Time to Visit June - October for dry season conditions and best reef visibility
Accommodation Style Beachfront resorts in Palm Cove and Port Douglas, or CBD hotels close to the marina for early reef departures.
Plan a Cairns Itinerary
Daintree Rainforest boardwalk
What We Arrange Here

Signature experiences
in Cairns

Great Barrier Reef snorkelling pontoon

Great Barrier Reef Pontoon Day

A full day on a private reef pontoon with snorkelling, an optional introductory dive, and a marine biologist briefing -- positioned on outer reef sites away from the busiest pontoons.

Daintree Rainforest river cruise

Daintree Rainforest Private Guide

A full-day Daintree experience with a specialist guide, including a river cruise for crocodile spotting and a walk through the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth.

Kuranda Skyrail rainforest cableway

Kuranda Skyrail & Scenic Railway

A rainforest cableway up and a heritage scenic railway back down, through the Barron Gorge -- a comfortable, spectacular full-day loop from Cairns.

"Planning a trip to a new destination is overwhelming -- hotels, transport, sightseeing, logistics. That's where Aussie Grand Tours came in, and Cairns was seamless from the reef day to the rainforest."

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