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Beautiful stops and really nice food. Steve is the born guide. Interesting and funny content/storys throughout the day.

Our guide John made the tour absolutely the best. We had so much fun. We learned so much and saw even more. Paronella was amazing, the staff there was so kind and excited to share their park with us. Everything was so scenic everywhere we went, it was one of the best tours we went on during our trip.

Excellent tour. Super friendly bus driver with a lot of knowledge. Steve is definitely an asset to his organisation. I would do this tour again and I do recommend it to anyone.

Highly recommend this tour. It’s a very full day but it’s a great way to see so many amazing places. Would have loved to have more time at Paronella Park, it’s such a beautiful place and there wasn’t much time to explore after the guided tour (which was super informative and worthwhile). Our guide was very knowledgeable about the places we visited

From a delightful welcome on arrival to the moment we left be were blessed. Exquisite staff and an excellent guide our eyes and senses were feasting. Phenomenal to walk among the ruins that are so perfectly preserved. Wandering such a place is truly a treat and a mist see when in FNQ. Highly recommend spending a few hours exploring and enjoying. The owners passion to ensure a splendid visit is clearly visible at every turn. We will definitely be back

The tour guide, Jeremy was great. Explained quite a lot about the local area. The tour included morning tea at Barrine Lake which was nice, great pub lunch near Paronella park and then the park itself is spectacular. Great way to see the tablelands.

We had a great day! Visited some beautiful places. Our guide Jeremy was very knowledgeable and friendly. This made the day even more enjoyable. The vehicle was comfortable and cool too. Thank you very much!

Would highly recommend this tour company to anyone visiting Cairns, our tour guide Steve was amazing and knowledgeable and was super funny and kind and even made a couple extra stops with some breathtaking views! Was the perfect cherry on top on our visit.

It's amazing. The 3 beautiful waterfalls are breathtaking. The Paronella Park is magnificent and the tourist guider Scott is very knowledgeable about the area and fun to have.

During a short visit to Cairns in October 2025, I had a spare day to do some local touring and so I booked up on the “Paronella Park and Millaa Millaa Falls Full-day Tour from Cairns “ -a small group bus tour, organised by Northern Experience Eco Tours (Discover Tours Australia). A bonus on this tour was that I could be the picked up and returned to my accommodation at Cairns Queenslander in Lake Street, North Cairns – beats having to walk to a set pick up/return point in the tropical heat. We had a very manageable mini ‘United Nations” group on the tour – three from Brisbane, Australia; a married couple from Florida, USA; a couple from Canada; two youth hostellers from Spain and a man from Taiwan with a passion for taking photos, who carried with him some very elaborate and bulky photographic equipment. Our driver Steve was very friendly and knowledgeable and drove the bus really well. As I was the first passenger picked up, I had the “pick of the stalls” so I sat with him in the driver passenger seat where great windscreen views could be appreciated. The tour started with a drive out of Cairns passing though the town of Gordonvale. There was lots of sugar cane growing and the Sugar Mill there was smoking away with great gusto. Big highlight is the local little mountain “The Pyramid” standing out like a beacon in the rural countryside. We then negotiated the winding Gillies Highway carving its way through the Gillies Range with 263 bends in its uphill section. There are several places to stop to take in the mountain views and Steve did stop at one where the bus could be safely parked on the side of the highway. Steve had a great hint to avoid travel sickness here – look up and don’t look down – wise counsel indeed! The Gillies Highway is a local engineering marvel having been built in the 1920s and officially opened on 10 July 1926. On to our first main stop – the beautiful volcanic Lake Barrine where we had a lovely morning tea of scones and cream and special local plum jam on the verandah of the Tea House overlooking the Lake. We took a short walk through the adjacent rainforest to see the mighty twin Kauri trees. There are several walks that can be done around the Lake but time was not on our side for such sport. We did however, get a good glimpse of the beautiful lake and its clear crystal water from the tea house verandah. Lake Barrine was formed over 17,000 years ago by massive volcanic explosions that created a large crater, which then filled with rainwater to become the lake. From Lake Barrine we enjoyed a nice drive through the Atherton Tablelands passing through the charming town of Yungaburra (it was a Saturday and the markets were in full swing ). Time constraints meant we could not make a stop here. The next long stop was to view a magnificent local phenomenon – the famous Curtain Fig Tree. This well known landmark is reached by parking on the roadside at the entrance to the Curtain Fig Tree National Park, enjoying a short walk along a well maintained boardwalk and hey presto – there it is in all its splendid glory. The Curtain Fig Tree is unique because the extensive aerial roots, that drop 15 metres to the forest floor, have formed a ‘curtain’ and over hundreds of years these roots have strangled the host. The boardwalk goes right around the tree so that one can get a 360 degree glimpse of this marvel from all angles. I last saw this tree in 1967 – it was still as good to see 58 years later. More driving followed as we travelled through the dairy town of Malanda before we made an impromptu stop, not included in the original itinerary (because time was on our side) to the Millaa Millaa Lookout (also known as McHugh Lookout). Well what can I say? This lookout is absolutely fabulous with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside, an impressive rustic timber fence around the car park area, lovely strategically placed trees dotted here and there where impressive photos of the distant views, framed by these trees, could be achieved and picnic tables and benches dotted here and there. Seriously, this attraction is so good that it should be included in this tour’s itinerary as a given in my view. This has to be one of the best lookouts I have visited anywhere. I was so thrilled that Steve chose to make the detour to this lookout as a sensational added extra. And so on to the beautiful Millaa Millaa Falls where locals and tourists were enjoying a dip in the pool surrounded by rainforest, 20 metres below the Falls when we arrived. Some of our group changed into swim gear and joined them in this cool pastime. Although Steve said the water pouring out of the Falls was not as intense as usual, there was still plenty of water gushing out over the Fall’s edge down to the pool 20 metres below to make the visit more than worthwhile. By now we were looking forward to lunch which we had pre-ordered at the start of the tour. So, it was on to the tiny town of Mena Creek via South Johnstone and to the Mena Creek Hotel where I enjoyed nicely cooked fish and chips and salad. We were given very generous time here at the hotel and the lunch was not rushed which was appreciated. The original hotel was opened in 1929 but was destroyed by fire in 1956 resulting in the hotel being rebuilt as the structure used today. Adjacent to the Mena Creek Hotel is the world renowned Paronella Park celebrating José Paronella’s dream to built something unique with a Spanish flavour in tropical North Queensland. José built his castle, picnic area by the falls, tennis courts, bridges, a tunnel, and wrapped it up in an amazing range of 7,500 tropical plants and trees (now a lush rainforest!) and he opened it to the general public in 1935. The present owners, locals Mark and Judy Evans, purchased the Park in 1993 and formulated a plan to put the Park back on the map. I did enjoy the stories that guide Bill told us about life at the Park in José’s day. There were lots of ruins of what were once proud buildings in an earlier time. However, one could still get a sense of life in these buildings so long ago. I have to say that while I enjoyed the experience, the weather suddenly got quite hot and wandering the grounds was quite oppressive for me. Perhaps if the weather had been kinder I could have given the place more attention and a higher mark. We did have lots of time to roam around by ourselves in the Park after Bill’s spiel. All up we had a 2 hour stop here. From here it was a non stop trip back home to Cairns. That then is a summary of what was overall a very enjoyable trip out for the day touring the beautiful Atherton Tableland. It was varied and the stops were plenty and generous in the time given at each. By the way this was the first trip that I booked up via TripAdvisor and the process was outstanding. The trip was reserved for me and the payment was not effected until two days before. Tripadvisor regularly communicated with me at all stages of this booking. On that score I could not fault them. Well done Tripadvisor.