Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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.
The best time to see the awesome Breakaways is sunset, when you can appre ...
Catacomb Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 most welcome.
The interior of the church is natural rock, coated with seal ...
Lot 1509 Rowe Drive, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 you use a piece of artificial grass when you hit the fairway with your ball, w ...
Oodnadatta Track via, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 planted when this was a thriving railway siding on the old Ghan Railway Line. Other ...
Old Water Tank Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
Located in a beautiful desert garden, is Faye's famous Underground Home. The original one room home housed the first mail truck driver over sixty 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 wine cellar and a swimming pool. Unlike a number of display homes in town, Faye's Unde ...
Hutchinson Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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, including the John Special layered with cheese, ham, capsicum and bacon, diners ...
Desert Cave Hotel Complex, Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 percent international written guarantee, tax-free to overseas visitors, award winn ...
8 Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
Opalios has been mining in the Coober Pedy opal fields since 1973 and is still mining today. It is a family business that cuts all its own opal and creates its own jewellery on site.
We have an experienced opal miner, expert opal cutter, and jeweller on site, and all our opal is cut to the finest standard. All opals and jewellery come with a written certificate, guaranteeing quality, value, an ...
Painted Desert Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 brown, contrasting with crisp whites and jet blacks. Created more than 80 million ...
Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
In 1974 we purchased the block where Star Opal and our dugout home are now situated. On the block there was a small stone building, which was used as a cutting room by the previous owner and a very small one roomed dugout.
At Star Opal we strive to give you the personalized service that is most essential when you are purchasing opal. Our aim is to show you a large range of opal so that you can ...
Anne Beadell Highway, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
Tallaringa Conservation Park is a vast wilderness of vegetated dunes and gibber rises, located 100 kilometres due west of Coober Pedy on the fringe of the Great Victoria Desert.
The park supports a variety of important wildlife species that have adapted to live in this dry, arid environment. The Anne Beadell Highway, a rough bush track, commences on the eastern edge of the park and ends at Lave ...
Crowders Gully Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 largest painted lady opal.
Compare opal prices of opal jewellery mined, cut and ...
Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 beautiful and unusual underground garden to their award winning show room. Here you w ...
Lot 14 Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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.
Take our guided tour and experience underground living in our display home, ...
Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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.
There is an impressive collection of Aboriginal art and artefacts including such ite ...
Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 include the bell tower, St Anthony's Window, the Jasper stone altar and sanctuar ...
Lot 1541 Rowe Drive, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia
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 used on a flame or hot plate. The pottery is designed not only to be pleasing to ...
