Kuranda Rainforestation Nature Park Ticket (BNP)

Thank you to Miranda for the help checking in and for helping us get the transfer sorted out as I only paid for one some how ???? thank you Jerome for your extra time and knowledge and yarns while letting us have a little extra special time ???? absolutely amazing experience.. also Harry the bus driver was really nice and helpful and T was our transfer driver and she was so happy and energetic and helpful. Thank you all. It would be nice if it wasn't so hard to get to or find out information about though. The Kuranda info centre couldn't help with any information which kinda sucked but eventually we made it and it was so worth it. Please advertise yourselves more better! People come to carins to see REAL Australian culture and so many other tourists are asking why it's hard to access and "where are all the real Australians"..

Cute half day tour to see some animals native to Australia, Duck Tour, and photo opportunities. In the nature park was able to interact directly with some of the animals.

This is a small, somewhat contrived nature park. We had the unfortunate experience of being there the same day as a cruise ship was in port at Cairns so it was packed with busloads of tourists. Any feeling of being in a nature park was pretty much erased by waiting in line or being among crowds of tourists. The duck boat tour is very short -- probably about 1km of actual travel -- covered over the course of about 45 minutes. That means a lot of stopping and talking about plants and maybe you'll get lucky to see one bit of wildlife. The portion of the tour in the water is very short -- maybe 10 minutes -- and it's in a man-made lake. There was a duck boat behind us and one in front of us so it didn't feel very private or natural. Lunch was included in our tour -- buffet style -- it was OK, not great. Steak (tough), sausage, potatoes, and some steamed vegetables. That's fine -- we didn't expect to come here for fine dining. The wildlife area (fenced in) allows the kangaroo and wallaby to wander freely and that means that the tourists swarm around and hug and take thousands of selfies with kangaroos. Also not very natural. When we got to the aboriginal presentation, there were 200 or 300 people sitting in the bleachers. We were getting tired and it was warm so we decided to skip that and just find a quiet place to kill time until our bus arrived. Same with the spear throwing boomerang throwing presentations. All in all, this felt more like a zoo than a nature park and if you're reasonably fit and able, there are other ways to see Australian wildlife with a bit more effort and time expenditure in their natural habitat. I would not recommend visiting.