In South Australia, the town of Coober Pedy concentrates most of the world’s opal gem flagship capable of expressing all the colors of the visible spectrum. Halfway between Adelaide and Alice Springs, a journey into the Australian outback, Aboriginal Heritage and present mining.

Photography by eyeintim

Coober Pedy is less than 4 000 inhabitants and is almost a point lost in the huge map of Australia, about 850 kilometers north of Adelaide. More than 600 kilometers separate also from Alice Springs, the main city in the heart of the continent. Even the Ghan, the train crosses desert Australia from end to end by the center from the southern to the northern end, it stops there. (más…)