Coober, Australia

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Travel Blogs from Coober (159)

Living Underground with the Opals, Coober Pedy, Australia travel blog
Living Underground with the Opals
Oct 3, 2005

... 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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The Wild Wild West of Australia, Coober Pedy, Australia travel blog
The Wild Wild West of Australia
Mar 23, 2008

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  ...

A travel blog entry by orizarska
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Really Down Under, Coober Pedy, Australia travel blog
Really Down Under
Dec 3, 2006

... 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 can on ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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Australia - Coober Pedy, Coober Pedy, Australia travel blog
Australia - Coober Pedy
May 16, 2006

... time out of his intergalactic power struggles to buy a few delicate pieces of jewelry for his favourite stormtrooper. We then remembered that Coober Pedy had been one of the locations for the filming of Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson and this was one of ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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Forum Discussions on Coober (3)

Weird Races
Posted on Aug 22, 2009, 01:45:49
... around the nation. Around 110 pre-1972 vehicles descended on Sydney's Opera House for the annual race around some of Australia's most remote destinations. Wacky rides were decked out in unusual styles, aiming to stand out by being as creative as ...
Things not to be missed in Oz
Posted on Apr 2, 2006, 04:10:34
... a local South Aussie who, I'm ashamed to say, had never been to Kangaroo Island until last year. I've seen a fair bit of Australia and other parts of the world, but I should have gone to KI sooner! I loved it. I now recommend it to all of my ...
How to get rid of your backpacker
Posted on Mar 25, 2008, 19:00:44
... doing some illegal fruit-picking, I think he'd still be there. Byron has everything a foreign tourist would love about Australia: several beautiful beaches with waves small enough to learn to surf on, a relaxed atmosphere, one of the best pubs in ...

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