Coober Pedy Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Die Morgenstunden verbrachten wir noch in der Zivilisation. Noerdlich von Adelaide, an den Getreidefeldern vorbei, machten wir in Port Wakefield eine kurze Pause Port Augusta war dann der letzte Stop, bevor unser Bus auf dem Stuart Highway weiter nach Norden strebte. Die endlose Weite und die Salzseen waren fuer viele ein ungewohnter Anblick
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Am naechsten Tag entscheiden wir und dann uns**en Roadtrip nicht auf dem touristisch gete**tem Steward Highway in Richtung Norden fortzusetzen, vielmehr wollen wir die naechsten 700 Kilomet** (k`s wie die hi** zu sagen pflegen...) die Pisten schreddeln. D** eine Ford Falcon ist Eigentum, also kein Problem, uns**** ist ein Mietwagen und darf natu...

Today I said goodbye to Alice Spring and boarded the bus for Adelaide. It wasn't a typical tour bus but just a straight drive to Adelaide but it was cheaper than flying I got to see Cooper Pedy enroute. It was a fairly dull drive through the center of the country but the company was pleasant and I had a book to read. We reached Cooper Pedy about...

From the Barossa Valley we headed north towards Port Augusta, leaving behind the lush green hills and heading off into the desert outback. An early start from Port Augusta the next day, we set off on the 878km journey to Coober Pedy. It felt a bit like driving on the moon; you can't see any landmarks in any direction there is just red sun-baked ...

Am 1. Maerz gingen wir uns das erste Mal ins Outback. Gemaess dem Ranger war die Strasse nach William Creek auch fuer 2WD Fahrzeuge kein Problem, also wagten wir das kleine Abenteuer und fuhren die haelfte der Strecke (283 km) ueber Schotterstrassen. Wir waren froh, dass wir heile in William Creek angekommen waren und sogar das Geschirr in den S...

Well it has been awhile since we have sent out our travelpod, but since last we spent some time in the south of SA on the coast we is where the weather turned cold so we decided to head in land along the SA and Vic border and stopped a Narracoote for a few days and had a look at the Caves there which are fantastic. Then we got to the Murray and ...

Day 2 began at 6.30am and the destination was William Creek. No bunkhouse here so a night in swags with the flies. Continuing along the Oodnatta Track we passed through Lyndhurst - the home of Talc Alf (nutter) and Farina - a now derelict town which had begun as an ambitious attempt to build a thriving farming community in the middle of the dese...

well, pretty eventful day today!! me and wes got no sleep last night cos some bloody sprinklers went off in the middle of the night all down the side of our tent on some weird kind of pattern and it was so noisy it was unreal! would have got soaken if we'd left the tent though! anyway, at least now we know they are waterproof! the drive up to wh...

We had a day off today so we took the Jimmy out to the Painted Desert - Copper Hills area. This is a heritage listed vicinity on the road between Cadney and Oodnadatta. The difference to the surrounding featureless countryside is amazing. Photos cant really capture what it is like, all the rocks have amazing colours and are as smooth as if they ...

Took the Jimmy out to have a look around Mintabie today.Hardly saw a soul It is an entirely different sort of mining town to Coober Pedy in that the mining is all open cut. The town is very basic and certainly is pretty rough. You would have to be pretty keen and or have opal fever to live out there. Left the camera back in the Bunkhouse so coul...