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CAIRNS - KURANDA Village
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Kuranda Scenic Railway
An essential
experience for visitors, this unforgettable journey in vintage wooden
carriages climbs through 34km of dense tropical foliage in world-heritage
listed rainforest. Link up with the modern Skyrail cableway to view
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• The Dreamtime Walk
provides a comprehensive introduction to Aboriginal and Islander
culture and history with practical experiences including boomerang
lessons and spear throwing.
Then, in the rainforest amphitheatre witness the dynamic performance
of the Pamagirri Dancers.
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  Gallery. Art & Artifact Gallery
• Kuranda Rainforest.
View restaurant, shop...
• TATTOO T.N.Q - Tattooing in Australia
offers many opportunities to express one’s personality, tattoos
are not really a big fashion in this country, so the prices are
cheaper than in Europe and they can be done by really professional
Australian tattoo artists.
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tattoo artist  arm Patrice
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Cairns Boat Hire In the Marlin Marina, behind the Pier complex,
find "Cairns Boat Hire", where small motor boats can be hired, without
a boating permit, if you would like to discover the lovely wildlife
in the rivers and mangrove wetlands of the area, passing by Admiralty
Island, Seelee Creek, Moody’s Creek, and returning to Marlin Marina.
A pleasant circuit one can easily accomplish by oneself.
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The
earliest inhabitants, the Djabugay, lived in harmony with the rainforest.
There was a good deal of trade between Tableland Rainforest Aborigines and
those on the coast. In 1876, John Doyle camped near Kuranda when seeking a
route between the Hodgkinson’s Gold Field and the coast. Kuranda was founded
12 years later, and the first train steamed into Kuranda in 1891. 23 men had
died building the line. Tourism had its foundation before 1920. Honeymoon
couples would stay at one of the hotels and visit (by rowboat) "Fairyland"
and "Paradise". An early tourist publication had this to say about Kuranda,
"No township in the world has such splendour within its environ no wonder
that journalists, authors, artists and poets have tried to express in permanent
form the emotions which it has stirred within them" Tjis remains true today.
Kuranda Markets first opened in 1978 with 15 stalls. For more information,
buy The Kuranda Heritage Trail Map at the Kuranda Visitor Centre. 
The
Tourist Office is found in the Center of 
