The less known Australia

Anna Creek Painted Hills.

Anna Creek Painted Hills. Source: bvpvisuals.com

A virtual tour of Coober Pedy with Dr Maria Staykova


The Breakaways, a 15 thousand hectare conservation park 25 km outside of the town of Coober Pedy impresses with its expansive, rugged beauty of the Outback. The striking sandstone tablelands, turning into spectacular red and orange at golden hour, are home to unique native flora and fauna.

Jump on a guided tour or grab a permit from the Coober Pedy Visitor Centre and explore this ancient landscape yourself.

In the South Australian Outback lies one of nature’s greatest and oldest masterpieces – the vast, magical landscape of Anna Creek Painted Hills.

Its spectacular outcrop of otherworldly deep orange mountains emerge from the flat desert landscape.

Carved out in the red earth of the Outback, this 80-million-year-old beauty is actually an extinct inland sea.

Only accessible by air, special tours will land between the peaks so you can walk among the colourful hills on foot and experience solitude that can make you feel you went to Mars. 

Delve deep into life in Coober Pedy at this underground museum and opal mine, learn about the history of aboriginal and European settlement in the area in the underground museum and see fossils gathered from the extinct inland sea.


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