One of the most popular tours in Cairns is to visit Kuranda (www.kuranda.org/). You can get there by bus but the best way is to take the train up and the cable car down or vice versa. Was a rainy day but how fitting is that - to visit the rainforest in the rain. The train goes through 15 tunnels, has a lot of history. The skyrail skims over the top of the rainforest canopy and spans 7.5 kilometres. It takes about 45 minutes to complete a one way trip. There are 2 stops, one of them has a boardwalk so you can take in some of the rainforest close up and the other is at the Barron Waterfall. The tallest tree in the rainforest is the Kauri pine, up to 50 metres. Kuranda is a real tourist town, lots of shops. Bought an Aussie hat - dunkable, washable and "your best mate." Annabels pie shop sells the best meat pies in the world - the chicken one hit the spot. I asked for cream in my coffee and got a blank look. Cream? in coffee? They brought out a 2 litre bottle of some kind of cream that I suppose they use in their baking and were quite surprised when I said pour it on in. Coffee is at least $3.75 a cup. When I tell people how cheap Tim Horton's is they're amazed and when I tell them it's a drive-through shop they're astounded. As surprised as I was when I saw a drive-through "bottle shop" (liquor store).
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