This tour is so much more than a tasting tour!
A full day exploring this diverse region heading west of Cairns is a plateau rising from 400 metres to 1200 metres above sea level on the Great Dividing Range, the Atherton Tablelands.
Offering a full comprehensive guided tour visiting ten different locations in one day. We offer an interactive tour with wildlife, nature, history, culture and food. Our guide's experience and knowledge within the Wet Tropics Region deliver interesting and fascinating facts on tour. The tours are personable and intimate enhancing every traveler's experience. Visiting a number of National Parks, local produces, a nature park, and waterfalls while traversing across some of the most scenic natural landscapes in Far North Queensland.
We travel in a comfortable modern Toyota Hiace.
Please be sure to specify any special requirements for mobility and dietary as we will always do our best to accommodate all our passengers.
Posted By : Sunshine309448
Awesome tour! Simon was a very knowledgeable tour guide! Enjoyed the drive and scenery and the visits to the lakes, distillery, waterfalls, an all round great experience! We would recommend this to everyone!!
PS: The homemade tea goodies were fantastic! Thanks
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Posted On : 2024-04-16 13:54:35 
Posted By : F9416SDchrism
Simon was an amazing guide and host for a fabulous day tour of the wet tropic region of northern Queensland. He picked us up at 7:30 am at our AirBNB 20 minutes north of Cairns and dropped us back off at the door just before 6:00pm. In between we covered more than 350 kilometers of the most diverse landscape we've ever visited.
We had 10 stops including two different types of tropical rainforests, two amazing waterfalls, three really cool volcanic craters, two visits to incredible "wow" trees, and a visit to granite gorge where we got to handle snakes and exotic birds and attempt to hand feed rare (and super cute) rock wallabies.
There had been an epic thunderstorm the evening before our tour and the rock wallabies were traumatized by the storm and not eating while we were there. Hopefully they recover. We did get to see them from close enough to pet them but we tried to be respectful and give them their space. The storm had also closed roads at multiple points on the tour route so Simon had to do the tour in reverse (and he didn't miss a beat). The only causality of the storm was the coffee plantation we were supposed to visit was closed because their power was out. Instead Simon brought us to a creamery for delicious hand scooped ice cream.
I thoroughly enjoyed the spirit tasting at Mt. Uncle Distillery and recommend the Australian Brushfire gin which had a gorgeously smokey aroma and a shockingly silky smooth finish. My wife like the Ooray plum Gin. Australians are pretty strict about underage drinking so while we had our spirit tasting Simon took our three kids to see the animals at the farm and collect peacock feathers.
Simon was a kind, patient, and fascinating guide throughout the day as he gave us information on History, Geology, Biology, Indigenous culture and Myth, Australian sports and north Queensland tourist recommendations. He was great with us and with our three kids (ages 11, 8, and 4).
There were a total of seven of us on the tour and the van had four empty seats so the tour is always a small group and very personal. We highly recommend it to anyone visiting Cairns.
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Posted On : 2024-03-28 00:34:57
Posted By : S5790EDcherylw
We had a wonderful full day exploring the Atherton Tablelands with Simon. He is an extremely knowledgeable and informative tour guide who obviously loves what he does and where he lives. He had to make some last minutes changes to the order of itinerary due to some weather but had plans ready to go “just in case”. Our transport was clean and comfortable, he provided some homemade goodies for morning tea and took us to a lovely place for lunch, cheese and chocolate tasting. Totally loved our day.
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Posted On : 2024-03-27 17:53:48
Posted By : daveeD1516BZ
Simon is an excellent tour guide. Extremely knowledgeable in so many realms. He knows the history, geology, points of interest, flora and fauna, of
everywhere he takes you. He is also respectful and knowledgeable of the indigenous community that inhabited the lands he tours. Simon and Renee have laid out a wonderful itinerary that literally has something for everyone. And more likely you will enjoy it all! I know we did!
- Dave and Kirsten from Vermont, USA
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Posted On : 2024-03-10 01:34:44
Posted By : keithmsp
Our guide was Simon ( co owner with his wife Renae). The tour covered a lot, in fact we covered 350km in the day. But we NEVER felt rushed and at the conclusion of the day it was hard to believe we had seen SO much and did not feel at all tired. Simon picked us up from our hotel. From there we rode in a very spacious Toyota van to Skybury coffee for coffee and (red) papaya tastings. Delicious. Next we travelled to Granite Gorge . Simon knew exactly where the rare rock wallabies would be - we hand feed them. This was a huge HIGHLIGHT for us. An amazing experience. Following this, a spirit tasting at Mt. Uncle Distillery- very unusual and spectacular tasting libations. Millaa Millaa Falls was beautiful and a must see. Another WOW moment was seeing the Curtain Fig Tree - the inspiration for James Cameron and the home tree of the natives in Avatar. Afternoon tea at Lake Eacham with homemade biscotti (Simon is also a chef). There were lots of other stops but these were our absolute favorites. The Taste of the Tablelands was BY FAR the best tour we took in Cairns ( and we participated in five tours). Simon was a wealth of knowledge and seemed to know just about everything there was to know about The Tablelands.
Simon and this tour are a MUST DO while in the Cairns area.
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Posted On : 2024-03-07 05:56:23
Posted By : B8214TJmartinr
The tour operator was Simon from Tropic Tours. We tasted different coffees and
liquors. We had a wonderful lunch. We got to see and feed wallabies, swam in the rain forest and saw the waterfall. Tour was excellently paced.
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Posted On : 2024-02-04 19:55:46
Posted By : elizabethJA2685
A very relaxed guided tour across some of the rainforest and tablelands of QL.
Simon is incredibly knowledgeable and will provide a tour to some beautiful sights including the curtain fig. The Barron falls and the Milee milee falls.
He’ll take you coffee tasting, to a gin distillery. He’ll take you to a beautiful dairy farm where you try home produced cheeses and chocolates.
And delicious lunch all made with home produced products.
He’ll take you to hand feed wild rock Wallabies.
It really was the most magical day. Finishing off at a beautiful lake drinking tea and made cakes.
Simon is friendly and knowledgeable and he’ll try his best to provide the best day out.
The tours only run with 2-11 people so you get a really nice relaxed personable experience.
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Posted On : 2024-01-25 01:03:26
Posted By : RuthG2338
From booking to the end of the trip... super super super. Everything was well organized, friendly, informative, something very special... Simon and Renae are a great team and the end result (tour) is fantastic. Including homemade cake and tea/coffee/cocoa in the afternoon at the lovingly laid table. And the information is always relevant. When you get out of the car, Simon has his umbrella ready if you need it. He magically brought the sun to my face in the rainforest when it was raining. Simon, you are an excellent guide. Thank you both. 100% recommendation. I am a guide myself and can differentiate very well... and I am a critical tourist myself. You two are doing a wonderful job. I have already booked the next tour and am really looking forward to it. Best wishes
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Posted On : 2024-01-12 19:42:03
Posted By : 206rosemarym
Highly recommend Tropic Tours. Simon is an incredible tour guide with perfect knowledge and a massive love of what he does.
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Posted On : 2023-10-20 19:11:58
