Amazing Colours of Coober Pedy

Your adventure begins with a flight to the beautiful city of Adelaide. On arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. The rest of your day is at leisure.

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Adelaide travellers will be met at home and transferred to the Central Bus Station to join the tour. Interstate travellers will be picked up from their hotel.

An early start this morning as we board our luxury coach for a great 4 day getaway to the South Australian Outback.

★ Once onboard, you will be provided with a delicious boxed breakfast & coffee to begin your day’s journey.

The coach travels through Adelaide’s northern suburbs through to Port Augusta. After a brief stop for a picnic style lunch, we continue north stopping at Glendambo for a refreshment stop.

★ We continue to Coober Pedy, one of Australia’s most fascinating & unique Outback towns.

On arrival in Coober Pedy, we check into the Desert Cave Hotel, the only international class hotel in Coober Pedy.

Tonight, indulge in a special welcome dinner at the hotel’s restaurant.

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After breakfast, we begin a town tour of Coober Pedy. As well as its fame as the location of some of the world’s most brilliant opal discoveries, Coober Pedy is unique due to its lunar like landscape and its ‘dugouts’.

Due to the intense heat on many of the summer days, most of the population live underground which provides the occupants with relief from the heat.

★ We visit St Peter & Paul’s Underground Church, a spectacular Serbian Orthodox excavation as well as an underground home before stopping at the award-winning Umoona Mine & Museum.

The mine gives visitors a wonderful insight into the origins and working of an underground opal mine.

After lunch, we have the opportunity to try our luck and get down & dirty to fossick or noodle for your own opal in some of the mullock heaps.

Later, enjoy a drink in the bar before enjoying a delicious indoor BBQ meal at Umberto’s Restaurant at our hotel.

★ Optional excursion:

We set off to enjoy an early morning sunrise in the Breakaways with a glass of bubbly & orange juice as well as a cooked breakfast.

★ After a cooked breakfast, we set off travelling south via Woomera.

Woomera was established to launch long range missiles by Australian & American personnel. We stop for lunch at the Eldo Hotel at Woomera and also visit the Woomera Rocket Range Museum.

Later, we continue to Port Augusta for our overnight stay. This evening, we enjoy a delicious 3 course dinner at our hotel.

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★ After breakfast, we visit the Wadlata Outback Centre in Port Augusta.

Here, we enter the amazing tunnel of time where you are transported to the time when dinosaurs roamed the mountains which are now known as the Flinders Ranges. Learn all about the days of the Ghan Railway line to Alice Springs & Outback Australia.

★ Later, we continue to the beautiful Clare Valley wine region.

The valley produces some of the world’s finest vintages. We visit a local winery where we enjoy a delicious cellar door lunch as our last meal together before returning back to Adelaide.

Adelaide travellers will be met on arrival at the Adelaide Central Bus Station and transferred home by chauffeured vehicle. Interstate travellers will be dropped off at their hotel.

You will be dropped off at your hotel in Adelaide for your overnight stay.

The next day, enjoy some time at leisure to explore Adelaide. Ask us about optional tours that are available today including day tours to the beautiful Adelaide Hills & of the famous Adelaide Central Market.

Later, a chauffeured car will take you to Adelaide Airport in time for your flight.

❱ 1 night: Mercure Grosvenor Hotel or similar