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Tours
There are many town tours offering a broad and fascinating look at our unique lifestyle, taking
people through opal mines, underground homes, along with opal cutting demonstrations,
the beautiful Breakaways and the Dog Fence. More extensive tours include trips to the
spectacular Painted Desert, Lake Eyre and the Mail Run to Oodnadatta and William Creek.

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Lights! Camera! Action! Other Members Tours

Coober Pedy has a diverse and unique terrain, 18 Umoona Mine Tour ........................ 8672 5288
subject to an atmospherically changing 24 Faye’s Underground House ........... 8672 5028
27 Oasis Tours .................................... 8672 5169
landscape causing its popularity as a sought 41 Noble Australia Tours .............. 0499 500 932
after location by local and international film Stuart Range outback Tours.. 8672 5179
companies. Many
popular movies have
been filmed in Coober
Pedy including
Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome 1995,
Priscilla Queen of the
Desert 1994,
Pitch Black 2000,
The Red Planet 2000,
Kangaroo Jack 2003,
and most recently
SFV1 The Orisis Child 2015.
by Dale Manuel
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