Coober Pedy is an interesting small town between Alice Springs and Adelaide which is world known because of opal mines. After hundreds kilometres in red bush from Alice Springs you arrive in this white town.
Almost everything is underground: churches, houses completely furnished, hotels and hostels, bars and of course opal mines. Be careful, underground bars are more commercial than real local place. Underground, walls are white and red and sometimes, if you are lucky, you can find some opals in your room.
All population is leaving for or thanks to opal. Anybody can have a permit to dig. Some stays few months, other several years looking for this precious material. All are a bite crazy to live here where there is nothing to do in this place surrounded by the desert and where the temperature can reach 60C.
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