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Fertile plateau in northern Queensland, Australia
Photo: Mike Lehmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Atherton Tablelands is a plateau in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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A lovely backpackers with friendly staff. They organise many tours on the tableland.
16 ground-level units with undercover parking, heating and air-conditioning, tea and coffee making facilities, fridge, free interest, a microwave in superior rooms.
17 rooms with air-conditioning and cable TV. There is an 80 seat restaurant with a fireplace, a cocktail bar and a rock pool. You can spot platypus in the creek of the motel's gardens.
Use State Route 52 or National Route 1 from Cairns. No airports apart from Atherton Aerodrome although that isn't an airport with scheduled flights, and so the nearest airport is in Cairns. No trains here as well.
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