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Walk In Yesteryear´s Forests
Many of the world's last-surviving stands of rainforest are in the
areas to Cairns immediate north, south and west are now protected
by World Heritage Listing.
Vast tracks of rainforest stand across the mountains of the Great
Dividing Range, barely 30 minutes from the city. Kuranda, the
world-famous Village in the Rainforest, and Australia's largest
waterfall, the Barron Falls.
South of the city, the state's highest mountains are completely
covered in rainforest and north are the unique coastal lowland
rainforests of the Daintree and Cape Tribulation , where the forest
literally fringes the white sandy beaches of the Coral Sea.
The rainforests are home to thousands of species of trees, palms,
ferns and other exotic plant life - multi-coloured birds and butterflies
- and northern Australia's rarest mammals and marsupials.
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