Mamu Tropical Skywalk offers a bird’s-eye view of croc-infested waters and rainforest 80 million years older than the Amazon.
You’d be hard stuck to find any visitor to Far North Queensland who hasn’t heard of the Kuranda Skyrail, the cableway that climbs above the rainforest north of Cairns. It’s reputedly one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions.
Literally a turn-off from the Palmerston Highway, this incredible engineering feat uses a combination of walking tracks, elevated steel walkways and viewing platforms to place you in the heart of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, leading you on a carefully curated path through a rainforest thankfully protected from future logging or farming. The standout of this easy 2.
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