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Experience some Great Up Top, Fun Down Under

You’re all set to have the best, most awesome backpacking holiday adventure ever and with pumping parties every night, the best backpacker hostels and backpacker accommodation in the southern hemisphere, plus two World Heritage listed beauties – Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest kissing - we’d have to slap you silly if you didn’t come up to Cairns and experience some Great Up Top, Fun Down Under. Whether you’re keen to party, get your heart pumping to the tune of adventure, see wildlife, earn some cash or just have fun and hang out, Cairns and Great Barrier Reef has got you covered.

Click on the experiences below or visit www.uptopdownunder.com to get a few ideas of how you can get your fun on and have an unreal backpacking holiday in Cairns and Great Barrier Reef.

Night Time Highlights

Shop up a storm at the Cairns night markets
Local wines, soap, jewellery, souvenirs, food and friendly faces at the Cairns night markets.

Sexy time!
Head to the Great Barrier Reef at night and see the spectacular coral spawning – a very special, annual event totally dependent on the moon!

Great up top Pubs & Clubs
Warm up for a big night out with a massive meal and some liquid gold at one of the region’s favourite pubs then head for the big sexy dance floor and get your groove on at a Great Up Top club like The Woolshed, The Pier Bar or Gilligans.

 

Blue Sky Brewery

Blue Sky Brewery | Cairns
Our brewery is located onsite, customers will experience beer at its freshest, coming straight to the bar taps from the tanks.
(07) 4057 0500
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Day Time Highlights

Checkout our tropical islands
Green, Fitzroy, Dunk, Hinchinbrook, Double, or Frankland - these Islands are just some of the places you can work on your tan, explore national parks and have some Great Up Top Fun Down Under!

ATV Riding
Ready, set, GO! Race your mates through the bush, down gullies, up hills and across rivers on a motorised ATV.

Smile at a crocodile
Meet our mate Bruce – or one of his cousins in a wildlife park or on the banks of the Daintree or Endeavour Rivers.




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