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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| Visit the Old Timers Mine and Museum, Coober Pedy's premier, multi award winning, affordable and family friendly tourist attraction.
Explore a 1916 underground opal mine, museum and 1920 to 1990 home. View three large good quality opal seams, opalised seashells in the roof in their natural state, Coober Pedy's larges |
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| The Breakaways are one of South Australia's Outback gems. They're a striking rocky landscape of flat-topped mesas.
The Breakaways were once covered by an inland sea. They are now home to an array of native fauna and flora. Take in this remarkable view, which you'll find approximately 33 kilometres north of Coober Pedy |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| A unique church, Catacomb Underground Church was dug out in the mid 1970’s and dedicated by the Anglican Church thereafter. It is very quiet and a great place to meditate, pray, or just sit and be still.
There is a regular Sunday service with an average attendance of 40 people from nine denominations, and visitors are |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| Welcome to the world famous Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Course, the only club in the world with reciprocal rights to Saint Andrews in Scotland, the home of golf.
The golf club is located on the outskirts of Coober Pedy and the famous opal fields, 850 kilometres north of Adelaide. The course is a par 72, 18 holes and |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| The Coober Pedy-Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run gives you the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel with the mailperson delivering mail to remote outposts in the Outback of South Australia.
This great Outback mail run takes you to the heart of Outback Australia, to meet local Aussie characters and station hands, and vi |
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| Coward Springs Campground, on the Oodnadatta Track is an oasis in the driest part of outback South Australia. Campground trees can be seen from afar in the flat open landscape. The campground offers safe, low-key, sheltered and peaceful camping.
Most campsites are in the shade and shelter of trees and date palms plant |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| Our seven day Desert Camel Treks take you into the vast outback landscape to places rarely visited by other travellers. We operate from Coward Springs Campground on the Oodnadatta Track and our camels are an experience in store for you. They are gentle, well-trained animals and easy to get to know. All safaris travel |
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| Desert Cave Tours offer a variety of tours in and around the famous opal mining town, Coober Pedy. The tours are only limited by your imagination. Experience the beauty of outback landscapes. Tours include Coober Pedy town and scenic tours, opal discovery, fossicking for opals and mail run day tour. |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| Located in a beautiful desert garden is Faye's famous Underground Home.
This original one room home housed the first mail truck driver more than 60 years ago. It was converted by Faye Nayler and two other women, using only picks and shovels, into a kitchen and bedroom. Later five other rooms were added including a win |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| John's Pizza Bar and Restaurant is a licensed, alfresco, cafe style restaurant in the heart of the outback South Australian Town of Coober Pedy. We specialise in providing locals and visitors with exceptional service and quality dining experience. We are open seven days a week and with a variety of pizzas on the menu, |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| Buy opal where it is found - Coober Pedy is the opal capital of the world. This is an ideal place to buy a memento of Coober Pedy. Opal World has an extensive range of quality opal and opal jewellery.
The opal shop is located at the Desert Cave Hotel complex. Quality rough and cut opal are available, one hundred perc |
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| The Painted Desert is an area of spectacular colourful hills. It's an amazing sight - you'll see rocky outcrops of large and small hills, which emerge suddenly out of a flat, desert landscape.
It's perhaps best viewed in bright sunlight which brings out vivid colours such as ochre yellow, oxide red, and deep, rich bro |
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| Radeka’s Desert Breakaways Tours are offering a full round trip of Coober Pedy’s most interesting and unique sites. Your tour will be in a fully air-conditioned bus with an experienced Opal Miner as your guide, who will explain the history of Coober Pedy and how opal was first discovered here |
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| Visit the Old Timers Mine and Museum, Coober Pedy's premier, multi award winning, affordable and family friendly tourist attraction.
Explore a 1916 underground opal mine, museum and 1920 to 1990 home. View three large good quality opal seams, opalised seashells in the roof in their natural state, Coober Pedy's larges |
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| The Opal Cave at Coober Pedy has a long history of giving visitors a close up look at the beautiful gemstones which have made the town famous. Browse through the Opal Museum where you will see a fascinating display of rough and cut opal and opalised fossils millions and millions of years old.
Walk through the beautif |
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| Visit Umoona Opal Mine and Museum, Coober Pedy's largest underground and only award winning tourism attraction.
Take a walk through our museum where you will find information on Aboriginal and European settlement in the area. Step back into Australia's ancient past and view fossils from the South Australian Museum. |
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| The Underground Art Gallery is conveniently located in the main street of Coober Pedy. The gallery is completely underground and is carved out of solid sandstone, it is quite large and includes a hands on mining area where you can put on a hard hat and get a bit on mining experience right in the middle of town.
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| The first purpose built underground Catholic Church of its type in the world opened June 25 1967 and extensions completed September 1984.
It still remains Australia's only purpose built underground Catholic Church and is classified a historical site in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
Special features of the church incl |
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Coober Pedy , Flinders Ranges and Outback |
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| See how pottery is made at the Underground Potteries and view the finished work in the gallery.
All of the pottery is hand thrown or hand built and twice fired at the studio. The clays used are guaranteed genuine stoneware or terracotta, suitable for use in ovens, microwaves, freezers and dishwashers, but cannot be us |
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| Opal Air is locally owned and operated by experienced outback pilots.
To tour the region by road can take days and still not reveal what is seen by air. Salt lakes in flood or as luminous saltpans, ancient river systems, painted desert and moon plains are natural features. In contrast, the man made dingo fence and Co |
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