Best Experiences to Add to Your Cairns Itinerary, Cairns, Australia

If you are planning a trip to Cairns, check out the highlights from my long weekend in Cairns itinerary. I loved my time there and I want you to as well.

The first thing that most people said to me when I mentioned that we would be basing ourselves in Cairns when visiting tropical North Queensland for the first time was: don’t.

Port Douglas does sound beautiful but one of the main reasons we wanted to visit northern Queensland other than to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef was to visit friends who are based in the northern beaches of Cairns, so Cairns was where we were going to stay.

We split our time between downtown Cairns where we spent two nights, Trinity Beach in Cairns’ northern beaches for a night, as well as a night in a resort on the fabulous Fitzroy Island, for a treat.

Arriving in Cairns my expectations weren’t that high. I usually find that to be a good thing. When your expectations are low to begin with, you are going in with a blank slate and it is easy to be impressed by the little things.

And impressed I was. Over the next few days, we explored the Cairns area and had a really great trip. I really enjoyed what we got to experience in Cairns, although there were a number of things we didn’t get to experience so I already know I want to come back at some stage. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).