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Coober Pedy, South Australia

Extraordinary moonscape scenery is a feature in the forbidding South Australian desert. Coober Pedy's famous houses are built twenty feet underground where it is nice and cool.


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Australian  Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... [read more]
Blog: We're doing fine in the Lucky Country!
Date: September 12th 2004

The flight from Sydney to Adelaide takes only two hours, dear reader . I arrived in the beautiful South Australian capital without a planned itinerary, but with a fortnight to explore this often neglected state of Australia. I've visited the City of Churches before, but was thrilled by the chance to finally explore the legendary tourist sights in the rest of the nation's driest state. ... read more


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