Top 10 Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Kuranda, Queensland

Peter Jarver Gallery is a large and beautiful, iconic art gallery featuring Peter Jarver's incredible, spectacular, panoramic, landscape photographs of Australia. These are the finest award-winning images. A must-see while visiting Kuranda, the village in the rainforest. Both overseas and domestic visitors LOVE Peter's breathtaking images.

Emu Ridge Gallery is the famous Fossil/Gemstone Museum and gift shop in the township of Kuranda, Far North Queensland; well known for displaying a life-size, museum quality Allosaurus skeleton. It all began as a collaboration between two enthusiastic and passionate gemstone fossickers, Chris Maaten and Shane Hebbard. Chris and Shane spent many decades fossicking, cutting and polishing the crystals and gems found and soon turned their hobby into a business, officially commencing in July, 2001. Proudly celebrating 18 years of being open as of the 1st of July 2019, Chris and Shane continue to source natural authentic Gems, Crystals, Minerals and Fossils from likeminded fossickers and collectors from around the world with Australia being the main source. Our gift shop consists of a wide range of Australian gemstone jewellery, locally sourced gems, crystals and fossils. Chris and Shane hope to share their passion with their free Gemstone and Fossil Museum that runs underneath the shop.

Local Kuranda artist, Rebecca Koller's photo-realistic wildlife illustrations displayed and available for sale along with apparel, homewares and hand crafted clay sculptures. Clay sculptures of flying foxes are hand made and sold raising money for a local wildlife organisation. Over 140 artworks of wildlife with a focus on species endemic to Australia are available. Rebecca, who works in wildlife rehabilitation can answer questions about local wildlife. Open 7 days a week, visit to see the extensive collection available.

Let Cairns Quads & Adventures take you on the memorable journey which will leave you breathless. On this tour, you will enjoy beautiful nature and experience an off-road ATV riding experience. We offer you our adventurous and exciting ½ Day ATV quad bike tours where you get to travel through the Rainforest on dirt tracks and creek crossings. Our tours operate everyday at 9am and 2pm, where you will be given a short introductory training briefing and practice before venturing into the Rainforest, where the fun begins. Your actual time on the quad bikes is around 1.5 hours (approx) where you’ll get to experience adrenalin pumping and exciting bumps and creeks crossings and adventures throughout your tour. You’ll get to experience the Rainforest up close and personal with plenty of stops of your adventure through the Rainforest. Our tours are always unique and memorable, and are fun in the sun and awesome in the wet!

The largest butterfly flight aviary and exhibit in Australia - an all weather experience in the heart of the Kuranda village. Home to over 1500 magnificent butterflies, youll be enchanted by the arial dynamics of these elusive wonders of nature as you wonder through the aviary's rainforest gardens.

Welcome to Kuranda Candy Kitchen the home of fine handmade rock confectionery. Located in the Kuranda Village on the Cairns Hinterland our beautiful candy store can be found by the enticing smells wafting down the streets from the store. We proudly make all our products by hand and display live candy making demonstrations most days.

The Kuranda Arts Co-operative is a not-for-profit organisation with a good range of quality local artwork, organized and run by local artists through their gallery and online shop. Artwork includes paintings, prints, ceramics, metal, glass, jewellery. The Gallery is now operating from a new location at 17 Coondoo Street and looking forward to welcoming visitors in 2021.

We specialise in local Aboriginal Rainforest Art as well as artwork from indigenous Central Australian artists. Aboriginal culture did not have a written language, instead their laws, stories and social behaviour was passed on in the form of song, dance and drawings.

Honey House Kuranda was established in 1959, to showcase and promote the many distinctive honeys from North Queensland. Visitors can watch bees make honey in the glass fronted observation hive, taste honeys from the local area and learn about these amazing insects from beekeeper, Trish. Honey House Kuranda only offers the highest quality, raw honeys from the region. Proudly celebrating 60 Years in 2019!