Outback Attractions

Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse Museum (Attraction)
275 Opal Creek Boulevard, Andamooka, South Australia 5722, Australia

The unique Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse has been built from discarded beer bottles and is now a museum featuring displays of opal related mining equipment, opals and historical artefacts. Entry to the museum is via the Australia Post Office shop. Information and visits can also be arranged to view the small White Dam Opal Field settlement. Since opal was first discovered in 1965, this field has ...

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Breakaways (Attraction)
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 ...

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Catacomb Underground Church (Attraction)
Catacomb Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia

Catacomb Underground Church is an Anglican church founded and supported by the Bush Church Aid Society. Named after the Catacombs in Rome, where early Christians buried their dead and met undisturbed in times of persecution. Just as here we escape the harsh climatic extremes and enjoy quiet coolness and peace. The church was developed from an old dugout and opened as an underground church in 1 ...

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Coward Springs (Attraction)
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 ...

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Faye's Underground Home And Opal Mine (Attraction)
Old Water Tank Road, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia

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 wine cellar and a swimming pool. Unlike a number of display homes in the town, Fa ...

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Opal World (Attraction)
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 ...

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Opalios (Attraction)
8 Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia

For over 36 years, Opalios have been mining in the Coober Pedy Opal fields. We cut our own opal, and design and create our own jewellery on site. As a family owned and operated business, we have an experienced Opal Miner, expert Opal Cutter and on site Jewellery Designer and Goldsmith. Because we mine, cut and polish our own opal, we can guarantee all our opal to be natural and cut to the fines ...

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Painted Desert (Attraction)
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 ...

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Simpson Desert Conservation Park and Regional Reserve (Attraction)
Via Oodnadatta or Birdsville, Oodnadatta, South Australia 5734, Australia

Located within the driest region of the Australian continent, the Simpson Desert is one of the world's best examples of dunal desert. The sand dunes stretch over hundreds of kilometres - the towering crests and vast, flat valleys (or swales) between them stretching endlessly towards the horizon. The sheer magnitude of the endless landscape inspires a wide range of emotions in visitors-s ...

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Star Opal Fossil Collection (Attraction)
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 ...

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Tallaringa Conservation Park (Attraction)
100 Kilometres west of Coober Pedy, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia

Tallaringa Conservation Park is located 100 kilometres due west of Coober Pedy on the fringe of the Great Victoria Desert and is a vast wilderness of vegetated dunes and gibber rises. 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 La ...

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The Old Timers Mine (Attraction)
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 ...

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The Opal Cave (Attraction)
Hutchison Street, Coober Pedy, South Australia 5723, Australia

Browse through the Opal Museum and fascinating display of rough and cut opal and opalised fossils millions and millions of years old. Walk through our beautiful and unusual underground garden to our award winning show room. Here you are able to select from an extensive range of opal jewellery, rough and cut opal, a large range of souvenirs and local art and craft. ...

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Umoona Opal Mine And Museum (Attraction)
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, ...

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Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park (Attraction)
125 kilometres west of, Marree, South Australia 5733, Australia

Access to Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park is via the Oodnadatta Track. The entrance to the park is about six kilometres south-east of Coward Springs. Vehicle access within the park is limited to the several kilometre long entrance road to Blanche Cup and The Bubbler mound springs. The major attractions of this park are Blanche Cup and The Bubbler mound springs. These are both exc ...

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Witjira National Park (Attraction)
150 kilometres north of Oodnadatta, Oodnadatta, South Australia 5734, Australia

Witjira National Park covers 7,770 square kilometres of gibber, sand dunes, stony tablelands and floodplain country on the western edge of the Simpson Desert in the far north of South Australia. It is truly spectacular country with vast landscapes including many areas of considerable archaeological, biological and geological interest. The attraction of the Dalhousie mound springs, combined with ...

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