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South East Queensland Country
The diverse South East Queensland Country features a rich natural diversity encompassing rivers, rainforest and rolling hills. The continually changing scenery creates a spectacular background as you travel through the region.
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A leisurely 90 minutes drive from Brisbane, you will find the city of Toowoomba, high on the Great Dividing Range. It is the most significant centre for education of any provincial city in Australia and its University of Southern Queensland is acknowledged as a leader in the provision of programs for International Students.
In the South East Queensland Country region you will find towns where local history is carefully preserved; featuring beautiful streets and historic buildings, art galleries, heritage museums and country hospitality.
Stay at a working farm to experience the true Australian farming lifestyle. Feed the farm animals, help muster cattle, go horseriding and fishing, and listen to Australian folk stories around a campfire.
A wide array of crops and specialty foods are also grown and manufactured in this region. Available study tour components include seeing how cheese is made in one of the award-winning cheese factories; visiting a peanut farm or learning how to make olive oil.
You can also visit one of the many National Parks — experience cool, dense rainforests, swim in pristine rock pools, see magnificent waterfalls and enjoy the wildlife and wildflowers. When visiting the Bunya Mountains, learn how Aborigines once travelled great distances to feast on the Bunya Nut.
Places of Interest
- South East Queensland Country features an amazing array of walking trails in the many National Parks, from a walk through well-paved botanical gardens to more challenging hikes through National Parks such as Main Range National Park.
- Visit Maidenwell Observatory where you can see the Universe up close in big telescopes.
- Picnic Point Lookout in the city of Toowoomba is an ideal place to appreciate the rugged mountain ranges, valleys and native forests of the Great Dividing Range.
- The region features an array of farm tours where you can experience first hand how some of Australia’s finest produce is being made.
- In Goondiwindi you can take a guided tour through the Southern Hemisphere’s largest cotton gin.
Fast Facts
- With nearly 90,000 people, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city after Canberra.
- Toowoomba is a key educational hub that provides public and private education to Queensland's regional areas.
- Toowoomba is known as the “Garden City” of Australia — with its fertile volcanic soils and mountain air it presents its award winning private gardens and 150 public parks to visitors every spring — the Carnival of Flowers.
- The Eastern Down, Steele Rudd Country and Toowoomba regions are some of the world’s most fertile agricultural areas.