Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia

... with the tour, which was both a hostel and an opal store and an opal mine tour. They're still finding high quality opals in Coober Pedy, and the fact dominates the town. The chemist sells opals, and so does the pizza parlour, and so do all the hotels, and ...

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat
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Coober Pedy is the Opal capital of the World. It is still very much like the Wild Wild West...Totally worth the visit...very unussual place... *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! Support  ...

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... reading with a some patchy attempts at some shut eye being cheated out of an hour when we crossed the Northern Territory - South Australia border. Finally only being 5 mins from town we promptly ran out of fuel with luckily there being a spare jerry ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... actually. While we were waiting for Gizmo to be fitted with his 'new shoes' we took a look around the small town. Coober Pedy is primarily known for two things, its underground buildings and its opals. Every second shop is an opal jewelers or an opal ...

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