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| Food Trail Tour Sightseeing with Food Trail's experienced guides, is a day tour of discovery, to the Cairns Highlands. Taste local food and wine while visiting both the wet tropics rainforest and dry tropical savanah near Mareeba, Atherton and Yungaburra. Visit small food and wine producers, take plantation tours and taste many of the excellent foods and tropical fruit wines produced on the Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands).
A tropical seafood lunch Morning and afternoon teas Tastings at two tropical fruit wineries Coffee plantation tour and tastings Macadamia Plantation tour and tastings Cheese factory - cheese making talk and tastings The amazing Cathedral fig tree Picturesque Lake Barrine The twin Kauri Pine trees Atherton Tablelands Cairns Highlands Mareeba Tolga Atherton Yungaburra
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| Prices (valid to 31/03/11) | adult | child | family | | Food Trail Tour | $154 | $77 | $442 | | *departs every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday | | **Alcohol tastings for over 18's only |  
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| There are informative farm tours, local food product tastings, and/or wine tastings throughout the day. On this coach tour, you are able to interact with people running small family businesses, and gain amazing insights into local lifestyles. Your tour takes you "off the beaten track", away from the crowds. Your day tour takes you to the amazing hinterland plateau known as the Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands), where your tour travels through both dry tropical savannah and wet tropical rainforest.
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THE EXPERIENCE - Excellent food or wine tastings at every stop,
- Informative plantation tours.
- Interact with people who run small, family businesses.
- Your informative guide explains how they grow and processes foods.
- Sightseeing to the central Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands)
| THE FOOD AND WINE - Taste wines at two tropical fruit wineries.
- Cheese making talk and tastings at a boutique dairy.
- Informative coffee plantation tour and tastings.
- Interactive macadamia plantation tour with tastings.
- A tropical seafood lunch featuring local produce is included.
- Morning and afternoon tea are also included.
| THE SIGHTSEEING - The amazing contrasts between the wet tropics and dry tropics.
- Central Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands).
- Cathedral Fig Tree. One of nature's awesome wonders.
- Lake Barrine is a blue, volcanic, "Maar" crater lake
- Rare Mabi rainforest, home to the elusive Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo.
- Wet Tropics - World Heritage Rainforest with its red soils, massive tree canopy, understorey, and vine thickets.
- Dry tropics - Savannah country, with its granite boulders, eucalypts and huge termite mounds.
- Irrigated farming districts growing a huge variety of "tropical" produce", Coffee, Pineapples, Mangos, Sugar and more.
- The only place in the world where they produce sugar, tea, coffee, and dairy products in one region.
- The small Tableland towns of Mareeba, Tolga and Yungaburra
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