Mount Banda Banda, Mountain summit in Willi Willi National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Mount Banda Banda is a mountain summit in Willi Willi National Park, in New South Wales, Australia, rising to around 1,300 meters (4,265 feet). The peak sits in the Mid North Coast region and is surrounded by rainforest that covers its slopes from base to top.
In the 1960s, a forestry project planted exotic conifer trees on the slopes of Mount Banda Banda alongside the native rainforest. These introduced trees are still present on the mountain and can be seen alongside the original forest cover.
The summit sits inside Willi Willi National Park, where the forest feels dense and largely undisturbed as you walk through it. The trails pass through pockets of subtropical and warm temperate rainforest that look very different from one another.
The mountain is accessible from nearby towns like Kempsey or Port Macquarie, with unsealed roads leading into the park. Visitors should be ready for walking through wet rainforest, so sturdy footwear and rain gear are worth bringing.
The summit holds Antarctic beech trees that are among the finest specimens of their kind anywhere in the world. A rare local mouse species lives in this forest and is found almost nowhere else.
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