National Park Daintree - world heritage site UNESCO, extending an area of 1200 sq km North from Cairns. This is a unique place, one of the last untouched rain forests of the planet, where you can meet rare species of plants and animals, including threatened with extinction. The heart of the Park - Daintree river (Daintree River), which rises in the mountains of the Great Dividing range (Great Dividing Range) and flows into the coral sea (Coral Sea). If you find yourself in the Park in the rainy season, you will see how the flow of warm water lashed to the ground through the trees.

On the species richness of the Park say these figures: home to a third of all species of frog, marsupial and reptiles, 65% of the species of bats and butterflies, and 20% of bird species in the country, although the Park is only 0, 2% of Australia.

The Park was founded in 1981, and in 1988 the oldest rainforest on the planet (he existed continuously for over 110 million years old! ) was listed as a world natural heritage site by UNESCO as the most important evidence for evolution and a vivid example of the ecological and biological processes. Scientists believe that such an incredible constancy condition of this tropical forest is the result of separation of Australia from other continents.

But the Park is "Daintree" is not only a place to discover the unique flora and fauna. There are interesting geographic features gorge Mossman (Mossman Gorge) in the southern part of the Park, Cape Tribulations (Cape Tribulation), the famous "Jumping stones" on the beach Thornton beach Thornton Beach). This beach is considered sacred by the local aboriginal tribe of cook, Alandi (Kuku yalanji), it conducted its mysterious rituals of the women of the tribe. And today it is forbidden to carry with beach stones - they say it can bring on the curse of the ancient spirits.

Here you can go on a walking tour, relax on the clean beaches or enjoy a picnic. You can get here from Port Douglas or Cairns.