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 ...
Birdsville Track via, Marree, South Australia 5733, Australia
Hear local voices from the Birdsville Track, explore three deserts, find out about Aboriginal culture and uncover settlers' stories!
Play the Birdsville Track audio tour in your car as you come to each point of interest, or listen in the comfort of your own home.
Aboriginal men once walked over 500 kilometres along the Birdsville Track to trade for ochre and tools. Then came white settlers, ...
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 ...
Stuart Highway, Indulkana via, Marla Bore, South Australia 5723, Australia
Iwantja Community is mainly Yankunytjatjara people living on the eastern side of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, eight kilometres from the Stuart Highway in the far north of South Australia, on a dusty rocky ridge called Indulkana.
Indulkana Arts Association started in the seventies. Initially used for secondary student's art lessons. Skills were learnt and the beginnings of a clear identity ...
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 ...
Oodnadatta Track, Oodnadatta, South Australia 5734, Australia
The Oodnadatta Track offers one of the best Outback drives in Australia. Steeped in history, natural wonders and a rich cultural heritage, the track is perhaps our most fascinating and historic outback trail.
It was the route for 19th century explorers like John McDouall Stuart. The track follows an old Aboriginal trading route through semi-desert country with artesian springs and waterholes al ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
