Atherton Tablelands

he Atherton Tablelands are up in the hills behind Cairns, a pleasant cool change in the summer. This area is packed with beautiful waterfalls, patches of rainforest, National Parks, lakes, an old volcano crater, and some massive trees many centuries old like the Cathedral Fig Tree and the Curtain Fig Tree. Depending on the tour you book you will be taken to waterfalls, historic villages,, farms, farms or wineries. Outside the rainforest areas there are fertile farming areas where they grow everything from vegies to exotic fruits to coffee and tobacco.