The opal mining at Coober Pedy is still running and this is perfectly shown through all the Diggings (Exvacation of opal mining). The Diggings starts 50 km befor you arrive at Coober Pedy and these digging fields may be seen almost 20 km before you are there. That‘s such flat out here and the view…
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Coober Pedy – Breakaways
Coober Pedy – „The Opal Capital of the World“ is such deep in the outback even the golf course is in stone and sand – pure Outback. Coober Pedy is still known as the Opal Mining spot of Australia. Opal Mining is still a good business here but the numbers of miners has changed, only…
Arckaringa to Coober Pedy
We leave the fascinating Painted Desert of Arckaringia behind us. To get to Coober Pedy we chose the gravel road from Arckaringia Station to Cadney Homestead. This way is a little bit longer but for that you may see an amazing scenery. This way has wonderful landscape, nice hills, a lot of green and such…
Painted Dessert – Arckaringa Station, Outback
Our next destination to visit is the Painted Desert, Arckaringa Homestead, at the Outback. A magical place, the landscape and the hills do not look like this the rest of this world. It’s look like we are on an other planet. The journey to the Painted Desert is on a 4WD road and we enjoy…
Kulgera – Outback
Our time at Uluru and the Kata Tjutas was perfect. Now our journey takes us back to the south. Next stop will be once again Kulgera Roadhouse. As often in Australia the day is great and sunny with a bright sky. On the Road it’s traffic as usual every 15 km a car or a…
Olgas – Kata Tjuta and Uluru – Ayers Rock, Outback
We do have reserved us some days at the Ayersrock Resort. So we are going to see also the
Ayers Rock – Uluru, Outback
On our journey of the last three weeks we saw and did a lot of things. Now we are standing in front of the amazing symbol of Australia, the Ayers Rock – Uluru named in Aboriginal language. This famous hill is 358 m high and does always appear in different colours. We do have the luck…
Kings Canyon – Outback
Our journey takes us futher to the outback and brings us to the
Palm Valley – Outback
We enjoy another day around Alice Springs. This day we want to see the
Standley Chasm
We stuck at Alice Springs because we do have to fix a car problem and here at Alice Springs we do have the necessary car agency. So we decieded to use the time we have and drive to the Standley Chasm (Standley Chasm, Iwupataka Aboriginal Land Trust) at the West Macs – West Mac Donnell…