Adelaide to Coober Pedy: A 10-Hour Road Trip into the Australian Outback
From green fields and yellow flowers to opal mines, underground accommodation and a rainbow in the desert One of the places I was most excited to visit on our Australian road trip was Coober Pedy . Our final destination was Uluru, but one of the biggest reasons I wanted to travel by car rather than fly directly there was Coober Pedy. For a long time, I had wanted to see this unusual outback town and, most of all, experience sleeping underground. I had seen photos of underground homes and accommodation before, but I kept wondering what it would actually feel like. Would it really feel like sleeping inside a cave? Would it be dark or uncomfortable? Or would it feel completely different from what I imagined? There was only one way to find out. So, after spending the night in Adelaide, we packed the car and began our long journey north. Destination: Coober Pedy. And ahead of us was around 10 hours of driving through South Australia. Leaving Beautiful Adelaide Behind ...