Cave & Underground
Desert Cave Hotel, Coober Pedy
Australia
The fable
Underground rooms in an opal-mining town
Coober Pedy's landmark opal-town hotel, with rooms dug into the sandstone where there is no light, no sound and a year-round cool the outback summer can't touch. Above ground it is now a working local — bistro, bar and gaming lounge — 846 km up the Stuart Highway from Adelaide. The catch: Also a working outback pub (bar + gaming lounge), and not every room is underground — ask for a dugout room.
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