The Mareeba Heritage Museum and Information Centre is a ‘must stop’. Organise a tour of a coffee plantation, scenic hot air balloon ride over the plateau or just sit and relax on the veranda with a superbly brewed coffee. A couple of trips of note from Mareeba are Granite Gorge, seven kilometres south-west and internationally renowned Mungana Limestone caves in the National Park near Chillagoe, 140 kilometres west. Then to Kuranda with colourful markets, butterfly sanctuary, the Barron River Falls, picturesque Davies Creek National Park and the world famous Kuranda Scenic Train, as well as lots more! Cairns, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, is then only a short drive and the end of our journey along The Great Inland Way. In this modern tropical city, shop-a-holics will be at home among the maze of shops and boutiques. Cairns is a base to explore the Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest reef system – the heavenly exotic islands off shore and idyllic long white beaches. There is something for everyone with over 600 differing tours departing from the city each and every day! What a place to finish the mighty Great Inland Way – you can’t get any better!