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Coober Pedy

Posted by sonianick | 14th November 2009

Once Flinders Ranges was behind and before entering the real Outback, we made a stop for one night at Port Augusta. It's the ugliest place in Australia we've seen so far, effortlessly dodgy and creepy. It was the first time we saw aboriginal people, as until then we only met the "white" Australians, and from their appearance, they can look scary. However, we shouldn't forget they have been treated really badly until not so long ago, and despite the intention of merging both sides of the population, they still live in their ghettos, a bit isolated from the world. If we had known Port Augusta was so ugly we would have slept somewhere else, but it was the perfect hub to drive up to Coober Pedy.

We drove approximately 500 km to reach the famous city of Coober Pedy, where Europeans moved with the hopes of finding gold and spend the rest of their days in a fancy bungalow in the Caribbean drinking mojitos all day long...but the only thing they found was Opal. Again, the landscape had

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