Outback South Australia
Check out this amazing leftover prop from the film Pitch Black, which has crash-landed on Hutchison St (a minor Millennium Falcon?). Intricate, creative,…
Must-see attractions in Outback South Australia
Outback South Australia
This interesting warren of tunnels was mined in 1916, and then hidden by the miners. The mine was rediscovered in 1968 when excavations for a dugout home…
Outback South Australia
As seen in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, this wildly eccentric underground abode was once home to Arvid Blumenthal, a Latvian-born runaway (quite possibly a…
Kanku-Breakaways Conservation Park
Outback South Australia
The Breakaways Reserve is a stark but colourful area of arid hills, mesas and scarps 32km north from Coober Pedy along a rough road − turn off the highway…
Outback South Australia
Within Innamincka Regional Reserve (if it's not too hot) there are some great hiking opportunities, plus canoeing and shady bush camping sites along…
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park
Outback South Australia
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the world's sixth-largest lake, is just off the Oodnadatta Track. It's usually dry but a couple of times in recent years it has…
Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park
Outback South Australia
Prior to European settlement, this area – an amazing ecosystem of semi-permanent desert wetlands – had a large Aboriginal population; relics such as…
Outback South Australia
Mutonia Sculpture Park – about 60km west of Marree – emerges from the desert unexpectedly. All sorts of wacky weldings stand mute in the heat, including…
Outback South Australia
For a terrific introduction to Coober Pedy – including history, fossils, desert habitats, Aboriginal culture, ecology and mining – take a wander through…
Outback South Australia
The best place to check out a working excavation is Tom's, 2km southwest of town: miners continue their search for the big vein; visitors noodle for small…
Outback South Australia
Faye’s was hand dug by three women in the 1960s – an exercise in persistence, to say the least. It's now a time-warp museum and a window into life in…
Outback South Australia
En route to Oodnadatta via the route running east from Cadney Homestead (151km north of Coober Pedy), you pass through the aptly named Painted Desert – a…
Outback South Australia
This is the town's largest and most impressive underground church, with intricate rock-wall carvings and a gorgeous vaulted ceiling. It's about 3km east…
Catholic Church of St Peter & St Paul
Outback South Australia
Coober Pedy's first underground church still has a sweet appeal, with statue-filled nooks and hushed classical music.
Outback South Australia
Next to Coober Pedy's improbably quaint Greek Orthodox Church, with its wrought-iron bell tower, this dusty plot began when James Conly became the town's…
Outback South Australia
You can't miss the Big Winch with its big dangling bucket, from which there are sweeping views over the Coober Pedy rooftops. A planned 'world-class…
Outback South Australia
The bleak, table-like Moon Plain on the road between Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta is a surreal place. The earth here has an oddly crusty, fractured surface:…
Outback South Australia
Meandering through the sand hills of this desert reserve, the Strzelecki Track spans 460km from Lyndhurst, 80km south of Marree, to the tiny outpost of…
Outback South Australia
A simple, compact bunker with rows of chairs and remote sermons beamed onto a big screen. Pull up a pew and contemplate your misdoings.
Outback South Australia
Perpetuating small-town Australia's established tradition of building 'big' objects to attract the tourists (banana, crayfish, pineapple etc), Coober Pedy…
