Queensland Island Travel Deals | Coastal Culture

Highlights & Inclusions: 12 Days / 10 Nights, Beach Towns, Wine & Dine, 4WD Adventure, Sailing, Snorkeling, Reef & Rainforest Accommodation: Noosa (3 Nights), Airlie Beach (3), Cairns (4) Australian Domestic Flights & Transfers 4WD Adventure on Fraser Island Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo Whitehaven Beach Camira Sailing Adventure Great Barrier Reef Cruise with Snorkeling Kuranda Rainforest Tour Tjapukai Night Fire Experience Dinner Cruise This travel deal itinerary is customizable with upgrades & extras. Booking Code: ST-TQ17

To Book: 888-359-2877 (M-F, 8:30am-5pm CT USA)

Take Me There!

A vacation perfect for a foodie who loves exploring local culture…

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You’ll start your Australian Adventure in Noosa, and Australian surf town.  Here, surfers carve the waves and kiteboarders buzz by like butterflies along the lush beaches and coves. But Noosa has a sophisticated side too. For dining out and shopping, you’ll love exploring Hastings Street’s eclectic cafes, bars and boutiques. A visit to the Australia Zoo, made famous by Steve Irwin, is unforgettable, with the chance to feed kangaroos and see dingoes and koalas. And a day trip to explore the beaches, dunes and inland tracks of Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island, is also included in the fun.

Noosa is hard to leave. But more fine things await when you’re transferred south to Brisbane to hop a short flight to Airlie Beach. A sailingcentric town, Airlie is the gateway to the Whitsunday Islands. And a trip by sailboat around the Whitsundays is one of the highlights of your visit. Watersports of all sorts reign in Airlie, so consider some add-on activities too. Perhaps an island-hopping tour to see Daydream Island? Or book a tour to the world-famous Whitehaven Beach, where the sand, made almost entirely of silica, lends an otherworldly hue to the turquoise water. Snorkeling and scuba-diving trips out to the Great Barrier Reef are another favorite way to enjoy the Whitsundays.

Depart Airlie Beach by boat for Hamilton Island then board your short flight to Cairns. The main city in Far North Queensland, Cairns is a perfect cocktail of cosmopolitan restaurants and lively nightlife paired with a laid-back lifestyle ruled by the tides. Sailing, snorkeling and scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef are popular pursuits. During your four nights here, included activities range from touring the UNESCO World Heritage-listed landscapes of the Kuranda  Rainforest to snorkeling or diving the Great Barrier Reef aboard Cairns’ newest dive boat, the racy Tusa 6. You’ll also enjoy a sunset dinner cruise on the sailing catamaran, Spirit of Cairns, and an outing to the cultural center at Tjapukai,  where you’ll meet the Bama (indigenous rainforest people) and hear aboriginal dreamtime storytelling around a fire. Foodies should make time to feast on Cairns’ multiculti dining scene and the atmospheric stretch of waterfront  restaurants along the Esplanade, where Greek, Japanese, Balinese and Brazilian are among the many options.

Available Upgrades:

• Accommodation
• Additional Touring
• Private Transfers

Upgrade Supplements will apply.

Optional Extras & Customization 

• Extend your package to see more of Australia
• Additional Day Tours – Whitehaven Beach Adventure & Hill Inlet, Long Island Excursion, Hot Air Balloon Ride over Cairns, Wildlife Dome
  
• US Domestic Flights
  
• International Flights (ex USA or Canada)

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