Sunday, November 29, 2009

Burleigh Heads is a Popular Gold Coast Holiday Destination

By Bailey Jamieson

Visitors to the Gold Coast holiday will almost always the popular Surfers Paradise and Coolangatta but located in the middle of these two well known Gold Coast holiday destinations is the equally popular Burleigh Heads. Burleigh Heads National Park is home to a wide selection of native Australian wildlife and some stunning vistas. The walking tracks meander through the National Park are an attraction that every visitor should see. The stunning coastline that follows the National Park and the terrific vistas ensure visitors will want to return to Burleigh Heads.

The Burleigh Heads National Park is full of volcanic columns that extend to the seashore. The local tribal people of this area were known as Kombumerri people. They had named this rocky headland as 'Jellurgal'. You can watch Australian brush-turkey and its nesting mounds. Water dragons, seabirds and migrating whales add to the attraction of the Burleigh Heads National Park. The viewing platform had been provided even with a facility for wheelchairs for assisting disabled visitors.

Art lovers could visit the Corporate Art Centre in Burleigh Heads, where contemporary art is on display. The Centre supplies home wares and artworks for individual homes and even large corporations. The Burleigh Art and Craft Markets is a speciality market for the last Sunday of each month, with more than 150 stalls offering fresh produce, local crafts, cookies, cakes and preserves that are unique to Burleigh Heads.

Burleigh Heads offers some of the finest sandy beaches along the Gold Coast with at least one beach patrolled year round making it ideal for swimming and safe family fun. The restaurants, cafes and eateries along the Burleigh Heads beachfront offer some excellent cuisine that you may never have tasted before. For shoppers, between the local craft and art market and retail shops there is bound to be something to catch your eye. Most of the beaches in Burleigh Heads also include manicured parklands which make them ideal picnic spots.

Accommodation in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast include apartments, resorts and hotels that offer excellent facilities and comfort in Gold Coast hotels or Gold Coast resorts. Some of the popular accommodations include Ambience on Burleigh Beach, Burleigh Beach Tower, 2nd Avenue Beachside Apartments, Burleigh Point Apartments, Aussie Resort, Burleigh Beach Motel, Burleigh on the Beach Holiday Apartments, Burleigh Palms Apartments and Burleigh Surf Apartments which all offer accommodation to work with any budget. You will also find a range of room configurations including single, double and triple bedroom apartments and suites. Standard inclusions with most accommodation are swimming pools, sauna and spa and outdoor barbeque. There are also many other common features in these hotels, apartments, motels and resorts in Burleigh Heads.

Other accommodation options for your Gold Coast holiday include the Koala Cove Holiday Apartments, Burleigh Terraces Holiday Apartments, Gemini Court Holiday Apartments, Hillhaven Holiday Apartments, Cashelmara Beachfront Apartments, Horizons Family Apartments, Indigo Blue Beachfront Apartments, Key Largo, Oceanside Cove Holiday Apartments and Outrigger Resort Gold Coast all with excellent facilities and with budget options.

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