Underground hostel room

A Cock in a Frock on a Rock

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June 20th 2006
The main stop on the trip between Adelaide and Alice Springs is an opal mining town called Coober Pedy famous mostly for its underground housing options. I have been to places where people live underground or in the cliffsides (parts of souther Tunisia), so I must admit that the Coober Pedy features I was most looking forward to seeing was the prop space ship Vin Diesel uses to escape the planet ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Coober Pedy

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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