Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets
Rustic stalls of secondhand timber, selling handmade art, crafts and produce since the seventies.
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This guide to the Kuranda Original Rainforest Markets, near Cairns, follows the hippie artists who built it by hand in nineteen seventy-eight around an old beekeeping business, the Honey House. It traces an odd standoff with Queensland's railway over whether tourists would ride the range just to shop, plus the buskers, potters, and painters who turned a scrap-timber stall row into a village landmark. Many of today's stallholders descend from that original crowd. Best explored slowly, stall to stall, before the lunch crowds arrive.
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