Coober Pedy Hotels - Reviews and Rates

EN: Distancies in Australia can be quite overwhelming, specially in the outback where you can go on for hours without seing a town or a gas station, or sometimes even a car. You should also avoid driving after dark (when the wildlife, mainly kangaroos, are more active), so you need to plan your gas stops and also where you will spend the night. ...

Am Mittwoch offenbarte uns Stan., dass er am Donnerstag in die Stadt muss und somit keine Arbeit fuer uns hat. Also beschlossen wir schon am Donnerstag nach Coober Pedy fahren und den Trip so vorzuziehen. Am gleichen Abend buchten wir schoneinmal unser hostel in Coober Pedy (es koennte ja ausgebucht sein!!!)....naja auf jeden Fall wollten wir am...

Drove 750 km from Ayers Rock to Coober Pedy - which is only along two different roads ! As we where leaving Uluru a storm was brewing, considering 'wet season' starts in November it was pretty good timing. Driving along the Lassiter Highway, which connects the rock to stuart highway (the road which takes you all the way from Darwin at the top to...

According to the people in the pub last night, the nearest place we'd be able to get the petrol tank fixed is Coober Pedy, 300 kms North of Kingoonya. So we set off early the next morning and found a garage where the mechanic had a look and said that there's no way we'd be able to find anyone in Coober Pedy to fix it. Apparently, in order to wel...

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...

Starting to enjoy Australia a lot more now that we're out of the humidity of the north. We can actually sleep at night and while there are still a lot of flies, the number has gone down mightily. We're camping a lot while we're here (when I don't wuss out & upgrade to a room with air-con) and the stars are amazing. Gotta go again. Got 2 mins...

whata cool place! coober pedy is truly unique, i mean, everyone lives and works underground here!!!! it's a dusty hell hole, so it's no wonder they prefer to be underground, but besides the dust and the flies that won't quit, the weather changes drastically here and they have very harsh extremes for winter and summer here, so living underground ...

Coober Pedy (weisser Mann im Loch): Die meisten Einwohner leben in unterirdischen Hoehlen, die sogenannten DUGOUTS - dort ist die Temperatur Sommer und Winter konstant ca. 25 Grad. Diese Stadt wird auch die Opalhauptstadt genannt. Auch hier war es mir bei 48 Grad zu heiss und die Fliegen wieder eine Plage. Zum Glueck fand um 14.00h (kurz nach A...

Today we did a tour of Coober Pedy.... We visited the Underground Serbian Orthodox Church (which was very beautiful). We also went and noodled (fossicking) for Opals - only one guy found a really lame looking one. We then went to the Underground Potteries... basically a shop! We then looked at the outback golf course, which was very huge, then w...

Coob** Pedy ist nur deshalb b**uehmt, weil irgendwann im 19. Jahrhund**t Opal entdeckt wurde. Seith** sind tausende und ab**tausende von Menschen dorthin gepilg**t, um sich ein Stueck Land zu kaufen und ihr Glueck zu v**suchen. Nicht weit von diesem Ort entf**nt ist auch eine Ebene, die von weitem als See gedeutet w**den konnte. Siedl** kamen au...