Itinerary Introductory NotesIf you want to go and visit the Great Barrier Reef, and have a luxurious holiday, you need to take some important things, like any holiday. The main things you obviously need to take are underwear, light clothing for warm weather, a rain jacket just incase, and toiletries. Tour guides and people, who have been there, strongly recommend a camera, sunglasses, and sunscreen. If you have all these things, this will be the most luxurious, fun and awesome holiday you have been on.

How to get there? To get to the beautiful Great Barrier Reef, from Armidale NSW, it is quite a distance and journey. But that doesn't stop many people going there every year. To get to this famous reef, first you have to drive to Sydney on Wednesday, and stay the night in Sydney. A recommended hotel is the Hughenden. After staying the night, you will board QF500 at 6:05 am, in Sydney on Thursday 28th of August. With out any delays or dilemmas, you will land in the dazzling city of Brisbane at around 7:35 AM. This flight will take around 1 hour and 35 minutes. After landing you will want to rest up, so spend your free hours in the comfortable Brisbane hotel. Some suggested stores are bookstores, accessory stores, Australian stores with Australian paraphernalia, and other computer stores, watches and city wear stores. After loitering around for around three hours, you will board JQ930, flown by jet star, at 10:55 AM, arriving in Cairns at 1:20 PM. After finishing this flight, you are more than halfway to the Great Barrier Reef. Once you get to Cairns, the best way to get to the Reef is to take a boat. You can board a boat from the Cairns Boat Harbour. You can hire one and go yourself, but it is strongly recommended to take a guide, so you don't get lost. Like any other bookings, you need a ticket to take this boat ride.

ActivitiesThere is a huge range of fun, different, and risky but awesome activities. Its not a massive deal that they are dangerous, because what's fun without a little danger? Some people may not like this, but that's fine, because The Great Barrie Reef offers many other activities that are relaxing, fun, and you can see all the animals and plants and trees. The activities include the relaxing activity of just sitting down and watching the awesome sea life

float by, or there is a massive range of activities that will get the adrenalin pumping that is for sure! But be warned, these are only for the true adrenalin junkie! These are the fifty-meter high bungee jump, and white water rafting. These are some exhilarating land activities. The Great Barrier Reef also offers relaxing kayaking tours right through the reef. You will get to see all the species of the beautiful marine life. For this tour, you will need to have a guide. Another land activity is horse riding. This is not as intense as the bungee jumping, but still fun. It can be a great one for city people who do not get the opportunity to ride horses. Once again, this requires a guide. The bungee jump doesn't need a guide, but there will be an instructor on the ground, and one way up high, fifty meters with you. Obviously with the exhilarating white water rafting, a tour guide will be with you in the boat, directing you down

the river, and down the white water rapids. Also you can scuba dive. This would be awesome, and a great experience. First you have to get a license, then a guide to take you. If your children are not old enough to get a license, they can snorkel, and this would be just as fun and beautiful.

Day by DayDay 1: Arrive, unpack, get settled in, and have a look around. Just relax and look forward to the awesome week ahead. Day 2 Bungee Jumping: This activity is an exhilarating, adrenalin rushing activity for people who are not afraid of heights, and love the feeling of free falling. You will arrive at the jumping station, get corded up, and jump in the crane, and it takes you up, way up high, fifty meters. This is obviously for the people who only want to go there for the rush, not to see all the natural beauty, and the small range of cultural. This could be great for eligible kids, or older adrenalin junkies.

Day 3 Horse Riding: This activity is not an intense activity, but equally fun and enjoyable as white water rafting. You will get a good, relaxed learning horse, and saddle up and go have a great trail ride with your family and friends. It will be a rather time consuming activity, as in it will take up just over half the day, if not more. There is no problem with this activity being this long, because it is a day well spent. This is a great land activity. It is great for older people or just people that don't want to be tossed around in a boat, or on the end of a bungee cord. This activity allows you to soak up the

cultural and natural beauty of the islands on the reef. While you are horse riding, you could get very hot, so feel free to have a relaxing swim in the clear, warm water. Day 4 White water Rafting: This activity is a great activity to take part in, with all the family, if they are above about the age of 10 and if they don't mind lots of water and they can confidently swim. It will go for around an hour and a half, or 2, down rapids, small drop offs, and white water. You will be tossed around, but enjoy it. The boats fit about 6-7 people comfortably. They are made out of a hard rubber, with a plastic guard all around it and on the bottom, to stop it from popping easily. This is a great activity for younger people that want the adrenalin rush it providesDay 5 Relaxing: This day is a relaxing day, just spent lounging around your comfortable apartment, or around the beach. You can go chill out at the beach and recover from the 3 days of intense, exhilarating activities. The kids can use all their energy at the beach, digging holes, swimming, running away from the water (admit it, we’ve all done it) and kicking the footy, or the soccer ball. You can spend the day stocking up on groceries or buying any needed things for the apartment. Day 6 Scuba Diving: For today, your activity will be scuba diving, by far one of the best

activities. Obviously you cannot participate without a license, and only if you are above the age of 16. It would be a good idea to get your license before this holiday. If your kids are under the age of 16 they can just snorkel. This would be equally as awesome, you just cant go as deep, and stay under as long. When scuba diving, you will get face to face with the huge range of sea life in the reef. You can discover the

reefs, its sea life that call it home, and all the dark and gloomy caves of the reef. Day 7 Kayaking: This is one of the longest activities, but quite possibly the most awesome. It requires a guide, like most of the activities. It allows you to get right up to the displays of the coral that form the reef, the marine life, and the beautiful clear water. You can go by yourself, or with a group. Your upper body will definitely be sore after this, because you travel so much ground, or water using your strength. You rent the kayaks, and paddle off. It is definitely an enjoyable, time consuming activity. The time consuming aspect is no problem, because it is time well spent. Day 8 Packing Up and Relaxing: This day is spent recuperating from the energy-sapping week you just participated in. You can relax and lounge around, pack up, clean up and board you boat to Cairns. You will board your plane back to Sydney as well. After getting on your boat at about 11:00 you will arrive in Cairns at 1:00. Then you can catch a cab to the Cairns

Airport. Once you have arrived at the airport, you will have about 2 hours to relax, then board your flight JQ957, at 2:55. With a comfortable flight, and no delays you will arrive at Sydney at an approximate time of 5:45. You can then pick your car up at the airport car park, and drive to the Hughenden and stay the night. If you leave Sydney at about 9:00, you will finally get to Armidale at roughly 3:00. This is with minimum stops. For one stop, a suggested town is Gloucester. It is a small warm town with cafes, pubs and parks.

There are some activities for people who want to absorb the cultural and natural beauty, and also some activities for adrenalin lovers. You can get guides to tae you walking through the rainforests and looking at all the beautiful trees, plants and animals. The majority of the activities are all for the people who just want to go there to relax, discover new things, and fall in love with the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, and its rainforests, animals, and all the marine life in the water. Also there are some other activities that are not noted. The best one that is not noted is bushwalks, through the rainforests. You can look at all the beautiful plants, the ancient trees in the forests, and all the animals. This is a great activity to soak up all the superior cultural things and the natural.

TimelineAll these activities are one-day activities. The longest would be kayaking or horse riding. So a good amount of days to go for is eight. Six of them will be full of activities, and take two for relaxing, and hanging with the family. This holiday is quite a holiday, and you will be tired at the end of it, but it will be definitely worth it.

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