The sunflower fields
Time among the blooms at the festival's open paddocks — bring the camera, the hat and someone to take your photo.
Scenic Rim · Fassifern Valley
Kalbar Sunflower Festival Tour
When the paddocks around Kalbar turn gold, half of South East Queensland wants to stand in them. The Kalbar Sunflower Festival opens the Fassifern Valley's fields for a few brilliant days — and a Cooee coach beats the festival car queue every time.
Golden fields under the Scenic Rim peaks
Sunflowers are a genuine working crop in the Fassifern Valley, and in festival years the fields around Kalbar are sown to peak for the event — hectares of gold against the backdrop of the Scenic Rim ranges, with the village's heritage streetscape turning into a country fair of food stalls, music and farm gates.
The catch: festival weekends bring serious traffic to a small valley town, and parking is the day's hardest work. Our coach departures take that out of the equation — door to fields, no queue for the paddock car park, and a local lunch stop on the way home.
Outside festival years, the valley still grows sunflowers in season; charters can tour the back roads for roadside viewing and pair the fields with our Fassifern Valley Heritage Loop.
What the day includes
Kalbar village
Festival stalls, local produce and the heritage main street of one of the Fassifern's prettiest farming towns.
Scenic Rim lunch stop
A relaxed lunch at a valley pub, cafe or farm venue — confirmed with your booking for the day's route.
The valley drive
The run through the Fassifern under Mt French and the Main Range escarpment is half the show — window seats all round.
Festival dates, field access and entry arrangements are set by the festival organisers each event year and confirmed at booking. Sunflower fields are private farmland — please view only from designated areas.
Sunflower tour questions
When is the Kalbar Sunflower Festival?
The festival is staged by its Kalbar community organisers in festival years, with fields sown so the sunflowers peak for the event. Dates are announced by the organisers ahead of each festival — call us on 0409 661 342 and we'll confirm departures for the next event.
Can you see the Kalbar sunflowers outside the festival?
Sunflowers are a working crop in the Fassifern Valley, so golden paddocks appear around Kalbar in season even in non-festival years — but they are on private farmland, viewed from the roadside unless an open day is running. A guided tour keeps the viewing legal, safe and on the best back roads.
How far is Kalbar from Brisbane?
Kalbar sits in the Fassifern Valley about 75 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, roughly an hour and a quarter by coach via Ipswich — an easy day tour with time for the village, the fields and a Scenic Rim lunch stop.
What else is near Kalbar worth seeing?
Plenty — the heritage villages of the Fassifern Valley, Summer Land Camels at Harrisville, Boonah's cafes and the surrounding Scenic Rim peaks. Our Fassifern Valley Heritage Loop tour covers the district, and charters can combine it with the sunflower fields.
Festival seats fill first
Sunflower festival departures are the quickest-booking day tours we run. Call to register your group for the next event's dates.
Call 0409 661 342