Cooktown
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Queensland’s most northern town, Cooktown, is the first frontier town where many years ago Capitan James Cook landed and today it is a holiday destination boasting a number of attractions for all travellers to enjoy. With a variety of budget accommodation, eco lodges and rainforest retreats to book into you can explore and experience all that it offers. With its magnificent rivers, stunning sunsets and some of the most mouth watering foods you may even try all combined with the hospitable warmth present here in Cooktown, you certainly have the making of an undeniable vacation location in far north Queensland.
Cooktown is the perfect place for you to cruise around neighbouring island such as Lizard Island or perhaps do a scenic flight over the fringing coral reefs and coastline. Explore the outback and its many wonders, get up close to a variety of wildlife from crocodiles to birds, wallabies to marine species or set out on numerous hiking trails that will take you through beautiful parklands, rainforests and wetlands presenting waterfalls and amazing flora and fauna. Learn about the Aboriginal culture, history and heritage that surrounds Cooktown in the galleries and museums within the town limits, visit the historic sites or even base your holiday around the annual Discovery Festival which tells the story of the landing of Capitan Cook along with other fun filled festivities to take part in. With its rugged landscape, beautiful beaches and lush tropical rainforests for as far as the eye can see, Cooktown is a stunning holiday destination that will quite simply take your breath away.
Feel the vibe, have a holiday unlike any other, book into accommodation to start your adventure getaway filled with numerous sights and delights, too many to list them all. From aboriginal tours, river cruises, ocean sailing adventures, fishing trips that are unsurpassed and amazingly beautiful coral reef gardens out on the Great Barrier Reef just beacon you to come and discover for yourself. Diving, snorkelling and deep sea fishing are just some of the pastimes you can spend out on the open water or you can stick a little closer to shore or rivers that snake their way through the region.
You can see the town and sights on the bake of a motorcycle, by horseback, on foot with a local tour guide or by setting out to create your own tracks. Cooktown, though rich in mineral deposits and mining it is still a place that remains untouched from the outside world, where the noisy confusion of life gives way to peace and tranquillity. With many different styles of accommodation for backpackers, families, couples and people who are touring around, you can find somewhere ideal to pull up camp and explore all that Cooktown has to offer.
Brilliant sunny days, balmy summer nights and clear star strewn skies are a major attraction here in Cooktown! Take in Cape Tribulation, the Daintree Rainforest and have Cooktown provide you with the gateway to Cape York which opens a whole world of amazing wonders no to be missed. Start planning your trip to Cooktown and see what the most northern town in North Queensland has in store for you.
