A day on the Highlander Food Trail Tour takes you inland, over the mountain range, to the Cairns Highlands (Atherton Tablelands). During your day full of food and wine, you will travel through both the wet and dry tropics. With contrasting landscapes and weather conditions, the area grows a large variety of excellent foods, which are sold locally and interstate.

YOUR FOOD TRAIL TOUR EXPERIENCE:
- We take you to the best produce the region has to offer.
- Taste wines, in the world’s only “tropical fruit” wine region.
- You learn about coffee growing, and taste our very best.
- Taste excellent commercially packaged produce, which you can purchase direct from the farmer, or winery.
- Tour private farms and plantations.
- Meet the people, of country Australia.
- Get away from all the crowds, buses and shops.
- Different taste sensations await you at every stop.

NQ Gold Coffee Plantation:
- Coffee is grow differently in Australia. Hear why.
- Learn about tricks the farmer uses.
- See coffee cherries, the harvester and green beans.
- You will hear why cherry seeds are fermented.
- The roaster creates coffee beans in 15 minutes.
- Learn all the different roasts, how a great cup of coffee is made. It is so easy to get it wrong.

These people are the only Italian – Australian coffee producers, growing and roastingcoffee in tropical north Queensland. Indulgence for your taste buds.

deBrueys Tropical Fruit Winery:
- All the wines are produced from tropical fruits.
- Try mango, lychee, passionfruit or jaboticaba.
- There are five tropical fruit wines.
- And, three port style tropical fruit wines
- And, three stunning tropical creams
- And, their flagship, a coffee liqueur.
- There are no grapes here!

You sample a selection of deBrueys’ wines, at the winery. You may carry your wine purchase on the bus, or send them directly to your home.

Wondaree Macadamia Plantation:
- You can only visit Wondaree with Food Trail Tours.
- This small farm is not open to the public.
- You are taken on a very informative farm tour.
- Under the trees, your farm tour explains how they grow and harvest this Australian, bush nut.
- In the shed, you see processing machinery, and hear how macadamias are extracted from the shell.

Tastings are provided for your enjoyment, and you can buy Macadamias, at the farm.

Wild Mountain Cellars:
- This is your first stop after your scrumptious lunch.
- Wild mountain cellars is our newest fruit winery.
- With tropical fruit wines ports and liqueurs there is bound to be something to suit your tastes.
- Warwick (Stretch) is one of our real, local Australians.
- Once again, tastings are provided for you to enjoy.
- Take some back to your hotel to enjoy with cheese.

Stretch has also produced an amazing, smokey, pinot noir.

Curtain Fig Tree:
- Technically an epiphyte, but it kills, by strangulation.
- Formed after one tree falls, against another, on an angle
- As the supporting tree, grows it strangles itself.
- Aerial roots grow down to create the “curtain effect”.
- Look up in awe at this 500-year-old natural marvel.
- It is one of the most amazing trees, you will ever see.

Gallo Dairyland:
- Frank Gallo’s Dairyland our newest food attraction.
- Swiss staff are producing chocolates, and cheeses.
- You can also see cows being milked, if you wish.
- Enjoy afternoon tea, with scones, jam and cream.
- Next you may taste the cheeses, and if you ask nicely, you maybe lucky enough to taste their chocolate.
- This is the last farm, before we return you to Cairns
- We carry an esky (ice box) to get some home.

Purchase cheese or chocolate to enjoy, on your hotel balcony, with a bottle of wine.

So what are you waiting for?

Reviews

from Jens

We had a great day! Nice tour guide who gave lots of infos. Food tasting was fun - best was the Macadamia Farm.

from Jens

We spent a great day with at the Atherton Tablelands. Besides the nice Foodtasting we saw and learned a lot about the region. Even my kids (10 + 13) loved it. Best of the day was the Makadamia Farm!

Included In Price

THE FOOD AND WINE:
- deBrueys winery: Taste Tropical fruit wines, ports and liqueurs
- Wild Mountain Cellars: Tropical fruit wine tastings
- Gallo Dairyland: Our special cheese making talk and tastings
- Tolga Hotel: A tropical seafood lunch. Alternatives are available
- NQ Gold Coffee: Plantation and shed tour, with tastings
- Wondaree Macadamias: Plantation and shed tours, plus tastings
- Morning tea at the coffee plantation
- Afternoon tea at Lake Barrine Teahouse

THE SIGHTSEEING:
- World Heritage wet tropics rainforest
- The amazingly different, dry tropical savannah
- The stunning, 550 year old, Cathedral fig tree
- Lake Barrine teahouse, overlooking the crater lake
- The towering, 1000 year old Twin Kauri Pine trees
- Atherton Tablelands - Cairns Highlands
- Small towns: Mareeba - Tolga - Atherton - Yungaburra

ACCOMMODATION TRANSFERS:
- Transfers are provided from accommodation between Cairns and Palm Cove.

Participant Guidelines

Advance reservations can be made for travel on the following days; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday.

Please wear comfortable casual clothes, and walking shoes. We also recommend you bring a shady hat, at any time of year, and a warm jacket between May and September.

Price Valid For

Per person

Booking Notes

NOTE:
Due to changing fuel prices a $2.00 surcharge may apply.
Any surcharge is payable on boarding.
Any surcharge is subject to variation without notice.

Children (4-14 Years of age)
Infants (0-3 Years of age) travel FREE.
Family (2 Adults and 2 Children).

The tour returns to Cairns by 5:30pm.

Departure Time

7:30am

Numbers on the day

There are 21 passenger seats, on our air-conditioned coach.
Keeping it small, means you will have a relaxed and personalised tour.

Weather Exceptions

Contact operator in case of bad weather.

Meeting Point

We provide transfers from hotels, motels, hostels or caravan parks within Cairns suburbs, and Northern Beaches. (excludes Port Douglas)

Please provide us with your accommodation details when booking.

Please reconfirm post arrival. Tel: 4041 1522

Location

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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