Kuranda Village - Train and Skyrail

The train ride up to Kuranda Village took about 2 hours - it was a beautiful ride thru the rain forest.  There are 12 tunnels that had to be cut thru the rock when the tracks were laid.  It reminded me a lot of the North Georgia Mountains.

Got up to the village and it was pretty much just shopping areas - didn't quite look like what they had on the web but it was nice and shady.  Tree lined streets to stroll around in.  We went into the Koala place to hold a Koala - it cost to hold one.  Only Rachel held it but we could all get in the picture and they took one of all of us with our cameras.  We fed some kangaroos - there we a couple of babies there as well.

Because of recent cyclone damage to their cages, the snakes had been moved to a different place.

We wandered around for a while then off to the skyrail.  That thing was HIGH!!  When they said it went over the tree tops, they meant it!!  What a beautiful ride - it took us about 90 minutes to get from the top to the bottom including 2 stops along the way. When we left the last stop, it was only 10 minutes to the bottom -  we hopped on and as we topped the last hill - wow - what a view.