You mean underground? Like a Rabbit? Or a Snake? Or a Bandicoot?

Until I visited Coober Pedy and White Cliffs in South Australia, I really thought that these poor people who live underground were just the human leftovers of disappointed miners who ran out of money and enthusiasm to dig for opal in these hot dusty outback towns. The only alternative was to live in the holes they dug.

How wrong can you be? That opinion was dramatically altered after my experience staying in a 5 star quality dugout motel at White Cliffs, a few hundred miles off the beaten track not far from the famous