Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy is an underground mining town in South Australia’s outback, situated 846km north of Adelaide. The town’s name means ‘white man’s hole in the ground’ in the native Aboriginal language, and is highly appropriate as eighty per-cent of the town’s population live underground. As well as staying in an underground hotel, tourists can shop at an underground mall or worship in an underground church. The town’s opal mining history can be explored on a visit to the opal fields, after which visitors can unwind with a round of golf on Coober Pedy’s unique grassless golf course.