Preview of Yoni's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Cairns, Australia Entry Title: "Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef" Entry: "Jan. 4, 2007 Early in the morning we check into the Koala Beach Resort in Cairns city center. Not an arbitrary choice but the third place we tried to get find a vacancy, each time going up the price scale. Still not a bad place, but cost $70/nite Australian, and has a nice pool in the court yard. [GPS 16 55.197S 145 46.439E from the street in front] There is no beach near here though. We cleared out the van and take it to the Wicked depot to turn in and got our deposit back with no problem. We have driven 3346 kilometers or about 2091 miles of Australia, from Sydney to Cairns including side trips. We couldn't have seen as much of Australia as we did without the van, but it will be nice having someone else do the driving from here on. As soon as we could, we got on the train up into the mountains to Kuranda, which is something Irina has been talking about for 13 years, when she had visited Cairns. Arvid wants to see what she's been talking about. It's a steep and picturesque railroad trip winding up through rainforests and numerous tunnels to Kuranda on the Atherton Tablelands. We spent a couple hours walking about this cute little tourist town and then took the Skyrail back down to Cairns. The Skyrail was not here 13 ...
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