Coober Pedy | Hill Top van park with a view| Underground home. We leave the Centre, to where? Ep 46

This episode we wake up to a stunning sunset at the very centre of Australia, then bash our way back through the bush track to the Finke Road and head to Coober Pedy. We don't really know how best to sum up the underground town and opal capital of the world. It's pretty interesting, it's got pretty gems, but it's pretty dusty and pretty ugly. But you have to stop through and check it out for yourself. On our way we free camp and wake up to magic bird sounds and nesting budgerigars. At Coober Pedy we camp at a hill top van park with views to the stunning Breakaways, we check out a working opal mine, visit the underground Serbian Orthodox Church and visit Fays underground home and mine to see how people lived during Coober Pedy's heady early days and opal mine boom. But this is also a time to reflect on our next steps. After 4 months of arid, dry, corrugated and savannah country - as stunning and fun as it's been - we have to mull where the final legs of our lap are going to take us. And we decided to head south toward the coast. But we've got a surprise in store. Welcome to Episode 46 of our Big Lap Gap Year. We're David and Paula @nextleveloz. Like many of you, we've worked hard for 40 years, but we are too young to retire. So we're taking a gap year from work, we've bought our first ever caravan and are doing a Big Lap around Australia taking in the iconic destinations of our fabulous country. This channel is for fun and to share our trip of a lifetime and 100% of any ad revenue earned goes to charity. We'd love your comments, questions and tips. We hope you will like and subscribe and share the videos with others as we look forward to sharing our journey around this magnificent country. Some links relevant to content in this video: Lambert Centre: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/them... https://www.rgsq.org.au/Lambert-Centre Tom's Opal Mine: https://www.tomsopalmine.com Tomcat Hill Van Park: https://www.tomcathill.net Fay's Underground Home:   / fayesundergroundhome