Until recently we had been going to the Bunya Mountains every June/July for a week for the past 7 years. I love it and you can book a different house every year. I love the peace, quiet, kangaroo and the parrots that are there. You can go on a wagon ride with Clydesdales and they have difference packages.
Bunya Mountains National Park is full of wildlife in a wide variety of habitats, but the Bunya Pine dominated rainforest is definitely the star of the show. There really is not any other place like it. For us it was a place to escape the tropical heat in a pine-dominated landscape with cool mornings for Christmas. It gave us a taste of our North American Christmas traditions here in the Southern Hemisphere. We stayed several days in excellent accommodation in nearby Dandabah. We enjoyed some of the walking tracks even though we had limited mobility as a family with a two-year-old. Our favorite trail was the Paradise trail, because it gave us easy access to the rain forest and we were able to take our pram all the way to Paradise Falls.
Great bush walks, sweet coffe shops to relax at the end, picturesque views and birds and animals galore, what more could anyone want.
Beautiful and peaceful. A wonderful place with great nature walks and waterfalls. The wildlife is awesome but it's often chilly so take a jacket! Watch out for leeches when it's been wet!
We liked the wallabies that run free and the native birds that fly over.The Historical cottage/museum was very interesting.There is also a lovely cottage cafe on the right before you get to the park where we had lunch.Theymake their own products using berries from the national park.
What a great place this is to visit. We stayed in a rented house that was very reasonably priced and during the day we went on some bush walks and saw some pretty fantastic scenery and heaps of venomous snakes. The place does lack some facilities like a fuel station and an ATM so you do need to be a little organised if you're going there. The place had more clueless tourists than I would have liked but there isn't much that can be done about that. I hope this place keeps commercialisation to the extent it's at now and doesn't change.
We have holidayed at the Bunya Mountains for many years and are always drawn back by the majestic beauty of the mountains, the huge Bunya and Hoop pines aged up to 400 years old, the Red Cedars, White Woods, Strangler Figs and delicate ferns on the rainforest floor. In this pristine environment birds and animals thrive, from the noisy parrots and rosellas to the spectacular blue fairy wrens and the fascinating bower birds and scrub turkeys. Several species of wallabies delight visitors when they graze at dawn and dusk, letting their joeys out of the pouch to hop around. Bunya Mountains Chalets has a wide range of houses for rent in the rainforest providing visitors with an intimate experience with nature.
Peaceful, quiet, very scenic. Walking that was reasonably challenging. Solitude. Extensive walking trails through most of the park.
We had the pleasure of rediscovering the Bunya Mountains in 2014 and was extremely excited by the opportunity. Great accommodation, a lovely restaurant and the beautiful National Park to explore. The weather was quite cool and brisk whilst we were there so check before you arrive. The evenings in front of the fire place were to die for. The diversity and range of wildlife and walking tracks made this a dream weekend and one we plan to do again this coming year. A word to the wise, limited to no mobile reception in the area so having a holiday without the children having their heads in a computer or similar device, priceless.
Loved the scenery and great walks. The Bunya's are an awesome place to relax, walk, eat, drink, and just slip away in.Bit busy, but that is to be expected of a place like this!