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Tourists flying from London to Australia, often choose to explore the country from Sydney onwards. Sydney being home to harbor and Opera, also hosts the cheapest flights to Australia from London. However, attraction like Jenolan caves or the Dorrigo National park express the natural side and true beauty of Australia that goes way beyond man made structures.

Dorrigo National Park lies in Northern New South Wales, on the way between Sydney and Byron Bay. It makes part of the World Heritage listed, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia and is popular by dint of its boardwalks, on forest floor and at treetop levels, that make the going easy for travelers.

The subtropical region of the park is denser with elkhorns, crows nest ferns, cunjevoi, ferns, stag horns and mosses. The notorious huge dinner plate shaped leaves of the stinging tree, or “Gympie Gympie”, is one of the plant species one should maintain a safe distance from while making way along the tracks. The leaves are identified as they are riddled with holes from insect attack and cause a painful sting when touched. The warm temperate rainforests plants growing in the less fertile region include coach wood, calicona, corkwood, prickly ash and sassafras.

For bird waters, Dorrigo makes great spot. The typical rainforest inhabitants of the park include Australian ground thrushes, grey and rufous fantails, yellow robins, noisy pittas, white-throated tree creepers, white-browed scrub wrens, logrunner and spectacled monarchs. The most picturesque birds are brown cuckoo doves, rose-crowned fruit-doves, wonga pigeons, topknot pigeons, rainbow lorikeets, marbled frogmouths, yellow-tailed black cockatoos, crimson rosellas. paradise riflebirds, boobook owls and king parrots.

Dorrigo’s animal life is only as rich as its plant life. Like many other parts of Australia, the park is renowned for grey kangaroos, swamp-wallabies, red-necked and red-legged pademelons, ringtail possums, brush tail possums, sugar gliders, pygmy and greater gliders, bandicoots, echidnas, brush-tailed phascogales, spotted-tailed quolls, Platypus and cutest of all koalas.