Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa  

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Daintree Eco Lodge and Wellness Spa projects a sense of exotic remoteness, as it sits in the oldest known rainforest on planet earth.

Located only 113km (90 minutes) drive north of Cairns International Airport and
only 45km (40 minutes) north of Port Douglas, gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.

It is 3 kms south of Daintree Village and the only lodge on the Daintree River.

Easy Access by sealed road runs to property - No 4WD required -South of the Daintree River - no ferry crossing.

The Daintree National Park was added to the World Heritage List in 1988 in recognition of its universal natural values.The area is estimated to be 135 million years old and is the oldest living tropical rainforest on earth.

It is one of the most diverse and beautiful examples of Mother Nature in the world, home to a large range of plants and animals, and all are found within the largest chunk of rainforest in Australia - an area spanning approximately 1200 square kilometres.

This World Heritage Listed area contains the highest number of plant and animal species that are rare, or threatened with extinction, anywhere in the world.

The Daintree Rainforest is a unique area, precariously balanced between the advances of development and the warnings of environmentalists.

The Daintree Rainforest contains 30% of frog, marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species.

20% of bird species in the country can be found in this area.

And it all lives in an area that takes up 0.2% of the landmass of Australia.

With approximately 430 species of birds living amongst the trees, there is 13 species that are found nowhere else in the world.

  -   The Great Barrier Reef is only an hour by boat, with many tour operators offering a daily service to the reef, where you can snorkel or dive or even fish for the many reef species.

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