Daintree Rain Forest description and photos - Australia: Port Douglas (Topic)

Daintree National Park (Daintree Rain Forest) description and photos - Australia: Port Douglas. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Daintree Rain Forest.

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Daintree National Park is a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, stretching over 1200 sq. km north of Cairns. This is a unique place, one of the last virgin rain forests on the planet, where you can meet the rarest species of plants and animals, including endangered ones. The heart of the park is the Daintree River, which rises in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range and flows into the Coral Sea. If you find yourself in the park during the rainy season, you will see how streams of warm water lash along the ground through the trees.

The following figures speak about the species richness of the park: a third of all species of frogs, marsupials and reptiles live here, 65% species of bats and butterflies and 20% of bird species in the country, although the park occupies only 0.2% of Australia's territory.

The park was founded in 1981, and in 1988 the oldest rain forest on the planet (it has existed continuously for over 110 million years!) the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List as the most important proof of evolution and an illustrative example of ecological and biological processes. Scientists believe that such an incredible constancy of the state of this rainforest is the result of the separation of Australia from other continents.

But Daintree Park is not only a place to explore unique flora and fauna. There are interesting geographic features - Mossman Gorge in the southern part of the park, Cape Tribulation, the famous "Jumping Rocks" at Thornton Beach. This beach was considered sacred by the local Kuku yalanji tribe of aborigines, women of the tribe performed their mysterious rituals on it. And today it is forbidden to take stones from the beach - they say that this can bring the curse of ancient spirits.

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

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