Fifteen degrees south of the equator in a land described as desolate and dangerous lays a beautiful tropic. Our first day of Australia...

35 hours of traveling, thats how long it took to get to Cairns, Australia. 4 Airports and three flights later we got to Australia. It was...

The travel time to Australia totaled over 24 hours, making it by far the longest amount of time I’ve travelled in a single sitting. The...

Thankfully, our journey to Cairns was fairly uneventful in terms of the fact that we made all of ours flights without any delay. However,...

Well the trip here was about as expected. I had never been on a flight longer than two to three hours before in my life, so going from...

Day 1 seemed to be a success! Our van arrived a little early to take us to the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Centre. In past years, we...

Overall we had a great trip here. A total of 3 buses, 3 planes across 3 countries over a 36 hour period and 14 time zones/ the...

Day five of our trip started out bright and early with a plane ride from Melbourne to Cairns. The flight was about 3 and a half hours. As...

As we prepare to leave for Sydney, I am still wrapping my head around exactly what Cairns is. This city is Utopian as I have ever seen....

Josh Krog: "Stepping off the plane when we arrived in Cairns was like stepping into a completely different Australia. Not only were there...

Emily Buckley: "My first impression of Cairns was that it was much more laid back and lots of less people than in Melbourne. A bus picked...

The day that locals believed was one of the coldest days of the year provided us with some of the most beautiful weather that we have seen since last summer. The weather here has been absolutely gorgeous and the experiences have paralleled that. Our first tour in Cairns was to the Great Barrier Reef. While the boat ride out to the reef was a bit of an issue for me, any amount of sea sickness would have been worth the awe-inspiring sights at the reef. I chose to upgrade f

Prawns anyone? Cairns is amazing! There is just no other way to put it. For those who don’t know the area, Cairns is a small resort town...

For our first official stop in Australia, I was glad that it was in Cairns. I felt as if we were in a location similar to Myrtle Beach or...

Cairns in general was much more exciting than I had ever anticipated. The first night we visited a boat restaurant called Prawn Stars...

Not knowing much about Cairns other than the tropical climate and Cairn’s proximity to the Great Barrier Reef, I wasn’t really sure what...

Arriving at the hotel it was rainy, and a bit cloudy but we were in Australia so the first thing I did was go down to the pool. Me and a...

After arriving at the apartments that we were staying at in Cairns, we were amazed at how luxurious they were. But when we went up to...

Arriving in Cairns wasn’t as exciting as people may have expected. When we first arrived, it was cloudy and even raining a bit. Getting...

Cairns was a wonderful city to start our trip in. Not only was it beautiful and exotic, but it was also completely different from the...