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Cairns: all 15 tours and excursions for your cruise

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Silver shore privato: private van & guide (full-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Cairns at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture Park, Botanical...

Silver shore privato: private van & guide (half-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Cairns at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private van. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned van and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture Park, Botanical...

Silver shore privato: private car & guide (full-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Cairns at your leisure during your full-day (8-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture Park, Botanical...

Silver shore privato: private car & guide (half-day)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore Cairns at your leisure during your half-day (4-Hour) sightseeing tour via private car. Customise your own itinerary or choose to see an overview of the area's highlights. Depart the pier with your English-speaking guide in an air-conditioned car and discover the city and surrounding areas at your own pace. Your exclusive tour concludes back at the pier. Points of interestsPoints of interest seen on this excursion may include: Tjapukai Aboriginal Culture Park, Botanical...

Kuranda, skyrail & rainforest (tour & airport transfer)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Disembarking guests with flights departing after 3:45p.m. can experience the wonders of the Australian rainforest on an awe-inspiring gondola ride that takes you high above treetops. Skyrail & RainforestNo visit to Cairns is complete without a visit to the Rainforest, and there is no better way to experience this than by soaring over the canopy on the Skyrail. Guests will board the Skyrail for a ride on the 5km cable up and over the Rainforest. Along the way there will be 2 stops where guests...

Aboriginal rainforest journey

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore the Aboriginal culture amidst the pristine natural beauty of the Rainforestation Nature Park during this captivating, half-day sightseeing excursion. Kuranda Range, Rainforest, Rainforestation Nature Park, Army Duck-Ride, Wildlife Depart the pier for the scenic, approximately one-hour drive from Cairns, the heart of tropical north Queensland and home of nature, culture, and wildlife, up the Karanda range and through the rainforest. Upon arrival at the spectacular...

Great barrier reef adventure

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Experience one of the great natural wonders of the world and an UNESCO World Heritage Site all-in-one during this panoramic, full-day catamaran excursion to the Great Barrier Reef. A short walk from the dockside will take you to your luxury fast catamaran and awaiting crew. This journey is unique, as the vessel will anchor at a mooring on the outer reef for your enjoyment alone. Catamaran-Ride, Great Barrier Reef Depart the pier aboard a luxury...

Step back in time: cairns walking tour

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Discover the colourful background of this tropical city in Queensland's north on this 2 hour walking tour through Cairns city streets. Meet your knowledge local guide and depart the pier for a leisurely walk through the town concluding at the Cairns Museum. Cairns City Cairns is only 140 years old and the first Europeans and Chinese came to the area in the rush for gold. The fortune hunters braved the crocodile infested waters, the dense rainforests, the...

Heritage class rail, kuranda & butterfly sanctuary (for in-transit guests only)

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore the rainforest village of Kuranda and beautiful butterfly flight aviary and exhibit before boarding your Heritage Class train carriage for a spectacular journey through the mountains. Note Please note: This tour is available to in-transit guests continuing on to the following cruise. This tour requires a moderate amount of walking, at times over uneven surfaces and inclines. Walking at Kuranda village during free time is at the discretion of each guest. Train is not air-conditioned....

Cairns aquarium - rainforest to reef experience

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Explore the only aquarium in the world dedicated exclusively to the habitats and species of tropical North Queensland. Board the coach and make the short 15-minute transfer to the Cairns Aquarium, which connects visitors with the natural wonders of The Great Barrier Reef, The Wet Tropics, The Gulf Savannah and Cape York regions. This spectacular aquarium is home to over 16,000 animals and offers unique opportunities to move up close to some of the world's most fascinating, elusive or deadly...

The wet tropics & great barrier reef by air

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Soar over the astounding North Queensland Rainforest, the world-famous Great Barrier Reef and the city of Cairns on this thrilling 60-minute flightseeing experience. Placed between the World Heritage protected Wet Tropics Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns is located in the perfect position for a helicopter flight. Transfer 20 minutes from the pier to the helipad for your unforgettable flight. The World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, which spans over 1,600 miles,...

Kuranda, skyrail & rainforest

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Take a journey through the lush rainforest by rail and then by Skyrail on this magical tour that climbs to bring you to an altitude of 1,100 feet (335 meters) above sea level, with fantastic, unforgettable viewing all the way up and across. Board your air-conditioned coach at the pier for the 20-minute drive to the Freshwater Railway Station. Upon boarding the Kuranda Scenic Railway in Heritage Class, the journey through the rainforest begins, and gets steeper as the train pulls the cars up...

Spectacular reef & rainforest overflight

  • Cruise line: Silversea
This Reef and Rainforest scenic flight showcases the very best that Cairns has to offer. The flight lasts approximately 60 minutes during which time you will cover over 120km (75 miles) of spectacular tropical land and sea environment. Cairns City After your transfer to the heliport, you will board your aircraft and fly over Cairns city, the lagoon, the marina, and the surrounding suburbs from a truly unique perspective as you climb to 2,500 feet (762 metres). ...

Helicopter to great barrier reef adventure

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Experience one of the great natural wonders of the world and an UNESCO World Heritage Site all-in-one during this panoramic, full-day catamaran excursion to the Great Barrier Reef.A short walk from the dockside will take you to your luxury fast catamaran and awaiting crew. This journey is unique, as the vessel will anchor at a mooring on the outer reef for your enjoyment alone. Catamaran Sail, Great Barrier ReefDepart the pier aboard a luxury catamaran for the scenic, approximately 90-minutes...

Helicopter to the great barrier reef and pontoon experience

  • Cruise line: Silversea
Experience one of the great natural wonders of the world and an UNESCO World Heritage Site all-in-one during this panoramic, full-day catamaran excursion to the Great Barrier Reef, highlighted by a helicopter flight over the amazing colours of the waters of the Coral Sea. Great Barrier ReefAfter a 30-minute flight arrive to your catamaran, enjoy one of the great natural wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef, and home...