As well as our markets, regular events and annual celebrations such as Festival Cairns, Port Douglas Carnivale, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Coral Coast Triathlon and Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival bring added life and colour to the city throughout the year.

Indigenous Culture

There are numerous options for you to learn, experience and take a magical adventure back in time with indigenous Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as they share their creation stories, dances, traditions and way of life.

Delve into the world of Aboriginal art, bush medicine and bush tucker, then watch and sometimes join in on traditional dances, hunting and hear carefully preserved indigenous languages on a private or group tour experience in Cairns, Mossman, Kuranda, the Daintree rainforest or Cape York.

You can fly or drive from Cairns to the northern most tip of Australia and experience the pristine natural beauty of 122 islands and the tropical culture of indigenous Australian islanders in the Torres Strait.

Each island has its own unique character, cultural traditions and some have accommodation so you can stay and experience the landscape and culture of the region’s people first-hand.

The waters of the Torres Strait are home to some of the best fishing in Australia and offer a unique chance to see and perhaps try traditional indigenous fishing. But if you don’t manage to master the spear or land a catch with your bare hands, there are numerous charter fishing operators around the region ready to take you out to cast a line.