Going Underground

Ill start from where I left the story in Adeladie...


We left for the groovy trip up to Alice Springs on Saturday. We stopped that night at a place called Coober Pedy (pee-dy) where 70% of the people live underground due to the heat. Our driver said he'd been there when it was 56 before! The name comes from aboriginal times when they used to pass the town and see the people living in the ground, cobery pedy translates as white man in burrow. Anyway, the hostel we stayed in was underground which was weird. It's a big opal mining town too so Sunday morning we did a tour of one of the mines which was interesting. After that, we continued our trip, passed the Northern territory border (I have now been to all 6 states here) and arrived in Alice Springs Sunday night. The trip was over 1200k so over the 2 days, alot of the time was sat on the not so comfy bus so it was a relief upon our arrival. We went out that night for some food with the rest of our bus (all foreigners) and had some very nice kangaroo con carne (seriously!).