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Great Barrier Reef & Whitsundays 9 Day Comfort Tour with Daintree Rainforest (Brisbane to Cairns)

Brisbane → Cairns 9 days Up to 16

About this trip

Nine days from Brisbane to Cairns, taking in the Whitsundays, the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest at a comfortable, easy pace with a small group.

You'll sail out to Whitehaven Beach, snorkel the reef from a day cruise, swim in a crater lake in the Atherton Tablelands and walk through the Daintree with a Kuku Yalanji guide. There's a gondola ride over the rainforest canopy to Kuranda and a river cruise where crocodiles are a good bet.

It's built around comfort-level accommodation and a relaxed schedule, so there's room to explore towns like Port Douglas or Cairns at your own pace between the bigger days out.

What you'll do

  • Sail to Whitehaven Beach and snorkel with Red Cat Whitsundays
  • Snorkel and ride a glass-bottom boat on a Great Barrier Reef day cruise
  • Swim in a crater lake and look for wild platypus in the Atherton Tablelands
  • Ride the Skyrail gondola over the rainforest to Kuranda
  • Walk the Daintree Rainforest and Mossman Gorge with a Kuku Yalanji guide
  • Cruise a river spotting crocodiles and visit Cape Tribulation
Good to know
  • Pitched at comfort-level travel with an easy pace, so a good fit if you'd rather not rough it
  • Small-group format with a set itinerary but some free time built in to explore on your own
Tour dupe
Same trip, less money
£1,505 less all-in
Best of Cairns, Great Barrier Reef & Daintree
4.5from £1,6155 days
The trade-off: 4 fewer nights, and a different operator.
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Getting there

Brisbane
One-way · arrive 15 Aug 26

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Where to stay

A night before your tour in Brisbane · 15 Aug16 Aug

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Great Barrier Reef & Whitsundays 9 Day Comfort Tour with Daintree Rainforest (Brisbane to Cairns) — Australia · 18-35.travel