The trip from Birdsville to Coober Pedey was a short one. The terrain did not vary a whole lot. It went from desert to a different kind of desert. It started off with the Dunes such as Big Red and lots of sand. From then on the landscape was pretty consistent. Out first stop was a little airstrip and restaurant at William Creek, pop. 2, and we w...

Our tour of Coober Pedy town attractions began at 8:30am and our guide was Rudi who had lived in Coober Pedy since 1973. We went straight to the Serbian Church which was built in 1991 and is entirely underground. It was a beautiful church and quite cool inside. The temperature in all underground dugouts is a constant 24 degrees all year round. W...

last night bev hardly got any sleep - too busy star gazing , sniffing and coughing to enjoy that luxury kingsize bed jim was merrily snoring away in ! finding it hard to switch off from the days events and the third day of the cold virus caught in adelaide (thanks guys!) she couldnt cool down even out on the balcony at 2am and when the night sky...

Coober Pedy was not what we expected it to be! We thought the whole town was gonna be underground but unfortunately it was just another old mining town with a large aboriginal community and not much going for it at all. We stayed in a really cool hostel though so that saved the place a little bit. Our room was located 6 metres underground, which...

Numerous white mounds surrounded by dust and mining trucks greeted us on arrival in Coober Pedy...surely one of the weirdest places in the world, covered in signs for opals and opal mining activities galore - apparently 90% of the world's opals come from there. We made our way up to The Big Winch, which promised great views over Coober Pedy, but...

Today was a long day in the bus. We started driving at 5:00 back to Erldunda where we got our new guide Brook. From there we continued driving south on Stewart Highway and except a few leg stretchers and stop for lunch in Marla all we did was to drive to Coober Pedy. We arrived there at 16:00 and we checked in at our motel. From now on we are on...

I woke up today with a nice itchy red mark on my leg which I later found out was a spider bite, not a very successful few days sleeping in those swags! We were up to go and watch the sunrise at Uluru which was pretty impressive, the colours on the rock were amazing but sadly the camera hasn't picked it up too well so you'll just have to trust me...

so pretty much slept and read and arrived at 6am in coober oh my god there is nothing here but a little town, full of crazies and red sand.....am i on mars?.... pedy na it wasnt that bad.....haha.....coober pedy is basically where 80% of the worlds opals come from..... whats an opal i hear you ask.....well look it up.... no?.....FINE! http://en....

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 ...

We have just got the weirdest greyhound- we were literally the only people on it! Looks like, not so many people head to Central Australia in Mid summer, apart from us of course! It was lucky though as it was an over night hound, so have four seats to sleep in rather than the usual one was a major bonus! We arrived in Coober Pedy, ( an Opal mini...