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Three days is the number almost everyone lands on for a first trip to Cairns, and it happens to line up neatly with the region’s

Cairns Airport doesn’t run a full 24-hour operation, but a meaningful slice of its international schedule lands well outside daylight hours. Flights from Japan routinely

Wet season scares off a lot of first-time visitors to Far North Queensland before they’ve even looked into what it actually involves. The name does

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 88 km south of Cairns Airport Drive time: approximately 1 hour by private car via the Bruce Highway Route: Bruce Highway

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 100 km north of Cairns Airport Drive time: 1.5–2 hours by private car Route: Captain Cook Highway through Port Douglas and

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 140 km north of Cairns Airport Drive time: 2.5–3 hours including the Daintree River ferry crossing Route: Captain Cook Highway through

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 75–100 km depending on your exact Tablelands destination Drive time: 75–100 minutes by private car Elevation: around 750 metres, noticeably cooler

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 130–140 km south of Cairns Airport (CNS) Drive time: 1 hour 50 minutes to 2 hours by private car via the

Quick Facts Distance: approximately 80 km from Cairns Airport (CNS) to Mossman Gorge Drive time: 75–90 minutes by private car via the Captain Cook Highway

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system and the single most common reason visitors fly into Cairns Airport. It stretches for

Palm Cove is 25 kilometres north of Cairns Airport and about as far from a busy tourist strip as a resort beach in Queensland gets.

The Cairns Esplanade is the easiest good decision a visitor to Cairns can make. It runs for about 2.5 kilometres along the Trinity Inlet waterfront,