Travelling to Cairns, Australia in our 60s♪ In our previous article,we shared the things we were glad to bring with us. What to Pack for Cairns: What We Were Glad to Bring in Our 60s This time,I’m sharing the things we brought to Cairns but did not really need. I hope this helps you pack a little lighter☆ Cash (Australian Dollars) A few days before leaving Japan, I exchanged just ¥5,000 worth of Japanese yen into Australian dollars. Since credit cards are accepted in many places, I thought ¥5,000 would be enough to start with, and if we needed more cash, we could exchange more in Cairns. But during our trip, we never actually had a situation where we needed to use cash. In the end, we spent the remaining Australian dollars at the duty-free shop at Cairns International Airport. Depending on the transport you use or the shops you visit, cash may still be useful, but on our trip, we barely needed it. I exchanged my money at C-Market at Ikebukuro Tobu Hope Centerin Tokyo. There were several currency exchange options in Ikebukuro, but at the time,this shop offered a better ratethan the other places I checked. These areAustralian dollar banknotes. They are made from polymer, so they can handle getting wet much better than ordinary paper notes. They are colourful, and some even have birds on them — very cute! You could even keep one as a souvenir. But if we're talking purely about what we actually needed for the trip, we did ...