The MAREEBA Food Trail Tour


Indulge your taste buds, on a tasty tour with a difference.


At the edge of the outback, where the sun shines 300 days a year.

You may join this tour on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Taste your way around Mareeba and the Northern Cairns Highlands.

Sightseeing plus:- food producers, winery, farms, and some wildlife.
 
Taste the excellent commercial produce, and meet local people,
on this unique, and personalised tour, away from the crowds.

  • A tropical barramundi* lunch, with local condiments
  • deBrueys' tropical fruit winery. Wines, ports, creams & liqueurs.
  • NQ Gold coffee. An Italian-Australian coffee grower and roaster.
  • Wondaree macadamias. Grow and sell locally. (A private farm)
  • Guided, exotic tropical fruit tree walk. (A private farm)
  • Feed wallabies (small kangaroos) at the amazing Granite Gorge.
  • There's a hint of chocolate, and other sweet tropical treats  

Your day features interactive farm tours, meeting farm owners and/or tastings at every stop. The excellent produce can be purchased at the cellar door, or from the farmer. You can even have it shipped to your home.

 
The Mareeba district had a huge tobacco growing region, which in its heyday was worth $60 Million dollars a year to the region.

 
Today 90% of the coffee grown in Australia is grown here, alongside many other traditional, and not so traditional crops producing the regions income, following the demise of tobacco.

 
Your experienced and informative guide will explain about the massive irrigation scheme that made it possible. You will also hear many things you didn't know about your food, and the processes needed to get it ready for consumption.

 

If you have questions, please check out our FAQ page.

Taste deBrueys tropical fruit wines, at the winery.

Tasting Bob deBrueys tropical fruit wines.

There's a selection of fruit wines, and fortified wines.

Fruit wines, ports, liqueurs and creams.

NQ Gold only sell coffee the way they roast it.

NQ Gold only sell coffee the way they roast it.


You may not want dinner after a day grazing on tropical delights 
 

* Barramundi may be unavailable during the breeding season closure.



The HIGHLANDER Food Trail Tour


From the dry tropics, to the wet tropics. An amazing contrast.

You may join this tour Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday.
 

A tasty sightseeing tour - Northern and Central  Cairns Highlands.
 

You visit both the wet and dry tropics, the tablelands towns of Mareeba, Tolga and Yungaburra.
 

Tasting excellent commercial produce, and meeting local people, are all part of this unique, personalised tour, away from the crowds.
 

  • A tropical barramundi* lunch, and local produce.
  • deBrueys' tropical fruit winery. Wines, ports, creams & liqueurs
  • Wild Mountain Cellars Fruit wines ports and liqueurs
  • NQ Gold coffee. An Italian-Australian coffee grower, and roaster
  • Wondaree macadamias. Grow and sell locally. (A private farm)
  • Gallo Dairyland. A dairy farm producing cheeses and chocolates
  • Curtain Fig Tree. One of nature's awesome wonders
  • Wet tropics, and the dry tropics. Amazing contrasts
  • Morning and Afternoon tea.
     

Educational farm tours, and/or tasting experiences await you, at every stop.You may purchase from the cellar door, or the farmer.

 
Take some to drink, or nibble on at your accommodation.

 
The Curtain Fig tree became part of the World Heritage Wet Tropics national park in 1988, and protects a small pocket of endangered Mabi forest, and is a home to the Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo.

 
Yes! We have a a nocturnal tree climbing Kangaroo. Our late afternoon visit improves your chances of seeing it.

 

Taste the lactose free cheeses and hand made chocolates at Gallo Dairyland

Taste the lactose free cheeses and chocolates at Gallo Dairyland

Tropical fruit wines, ports and liqueurs are produced at Wild Mountain Cellars

Tropical fruit wines, ports and liqueurs from Wild Mountain Cellars

Nature's amazing Curtain Fig tree and wet tropics rainforest

Nature's amazing Curtain Fig tree and wet tropics rainforest

You may not want dinner after a day grazing on tropical delights 
 

* Barramundi may be unavailable during the breeding season closure.


Compare the Food Trail Tours



The Inclusions 
Mareeba 
Highlander 
A scrumptious tour lunch ....................... 
Yes 
Yes 
Morning and afternoon tea .................... 
Yes 
Yes 
deBrueys tropical fruit winery ............... 
Yes 
Yes 
NQ Gold coffee plantation ...................... 
Yes 
Yes 
Wild Mountain Cellars ............................. 
-- 
Yes 
Gallo Dairyland cheeses & chocolates .. 
-- 
Yes 
The amazing Curtain fig tree ................. 
-- 
Yes 
Wondaree Macadamia Plantation .......... 
Yes 
Yes 
Tropical fruit trees ................................. 
Yes 
-- 
Tropical fruit ice-cream ......................... 
Yes 
-- 
Granite Gorge Wallabies ........................ 
Yes 
-- 


The Tour Prices 
Mareeba 
Highlander 
Adults ....................................................  
$ 139.00 
$ 149.00 
Childeren ............... (4-14 Years of age) 
$ 65.00 
$ 75.00 
Infants ..................... (0-3 Years of age) 
Free 
Free 
Family ........... (2 Adults and 2 Children) 
$ 399.00 
$ 425.00 


Taste deBrueys tropical fruit wines, at the winery

Taste deBrueys tropical fruit wines.

NQ Gold Coffee only sells coffee the way they roast it

NQ Gold only sell coffee the way they roast it.

Taste tropical fruit wines, ports, liqueurs and creams

Taste tropical fruit wines, port, liqueurs and creams.

Hear about macadamia farming, from the farmer

You take an informative macadamia plantation tour.