Comfort Inn CooberPedy Experience
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Satunnaisen matkailijan harharetki
... mutta kovin hiljaista tuntui olevan ainakin juuri nyt... vain pari ravintolaa auki, jokunen majoitus, "nähtävyyksistäkin" tuntui olevan jokunen myynnissä. Ehkä paikasta kertoo jotain se, että viinakauppoja oli enemmän kuin ruokakauppoja (3-2), joukossa myös drive-in-viinakauppa. Nerokas idea!
Jotain apokalyptista viehätystä kaupungissa kuitenkin oli. Ympäröivät maisemat olivat tietenkin karulla tavalla kauniita, ...
Perlen des Untergrunds
... rlich Minen. Wegen der extremen Aussentemperaturen im Outback (50 Grad im Sommer, um den Gefrierpunkt in Winternächten) sind die Wohnräume der Dogouts im meterdickem Sandstein mit konstanten 22 Grad Raumtemperatur ideale Unterkünfte. Wie wir im Museum gesehen haben, gibt es kaum Unterschiede zu einer herkömmlichen Wohnung; einzig das Anbringen von Tapete dürfte etwas mühsam werden... ;-)
Im sehr aufwändig gestalteten und umfassend dokumentierten Museum ...
Coober Pedy - Opal Capital of the World
... hundred-thousand dollars worth of opal were mined out of this mine. He suggested that mining opal (and get rich while doing so) was very easy and all that was needed was about 7000 AUD to start and hire some people. This made us thinking but we decided that this would be a hobby we could pick up at a later stage of our lives (Kevin was already seeing him swimming in millions).
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The Ghan
... tracks were laid close to the original ones) the trip resembles for most still one of the great railway journeys of the world. I was enjoying it from the moment I stepped on board. When I was not staring out of the window, enjoying the beautiful sceneries passing by, I was either talking to fellow passengers or trying to capture the beauty of ever changing nature on photo. Or trying to understand the dimensions of this endless land with its ranches ...
Coober Pedy
... we headed down the road to the Dugout Cafe.
Temperatures reach up to 50 degrees in summer in Coober Pedy (and this is a town that didn’t have electricity until the last quarter of the 20th century). However, the locals noticed that when they were mining the temperature was quite mild, even on the hottest of days. Logical inference – build their homes in mines. Therefore restaurants, ...