1) Andamooka Observatory Tours
The Andamooka Observatory is a family-owned tour business that can create personalised and private itineraries that take our guests into one of Australia’s last Outback frontiers: the Andamooka Opal Fields. Our bespoke premium tours are ideal for guests who want a pristine desert experience, sensational starry nights, fine food and wine, vast open spaces, abundant wildlife, and marvel at Australia’s national gemstone: Opal.
We can customise private tours to include delicious bush tucker banquets and beverages, searching for opal with LED (Ultraviolet) flashlights, opal mining, paleontology, opal cutting lessons, birding, sunsets, stargazing, and nocturnal tours.
Most of our guests choose to fly to Andamooka via Olympic Dam Airport for convenience or due to time constraints. The flight between Adelaide and Olympic Dam takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
The Andamooka Observatory was ranked second with the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the South Australian Tourism Commission’s ‘Best Places to Stargaze in South Australia’.
The Andamooka Observatory has been featured on the Discovery Channel’s ‘Opal Hunters: Red Dirt Roadtrip’, Channel 10’s ‘The Project’, Channel 9, SKY, Channel 7, Channel 10, ABC News, social media, and radio.
Enquire about booking your Andamooka tours: 0466265377 /0487112747
Go noodling (fossicking) for opal, dinosaur bones, fossils, Australites, gems and gold on a Andamooka Observatory Opal Mining 101 Tour
2) Andamooka Post Office
Open 7 days
Includes:
+Services of the Mines Department and Outback Community Authority
+Andamooka Opal Showroom Underground Opal & Mineral Museum
+Dukes Bottlehouse Motel
+Laundromat
+Weather station
+Café / Conference Centre
+Replica opal mine
+Art gallery that includes one of Australia’s finest gemstone and opal book collections
+Home of the Andamooka Opal Showroom and Underground Museum a simulated opal mine and a host of treasures from the earth
+Visit Karkaroo! Take special note of Karkaroo the opalised Andamooka Plesiosaur downstairs in the Underground Opal & Mineral Museum. Karkaroo came to reside in the Andamooka Opal Underground Museum in August 2018 and recently was put on public display. The colourful opalised bones of this juvenile plesiosaur was found in the false level (8.5 meters) at Tea Tree in October 2016
+Over 800 opal pieces, ranging from rare specimens, cut stones, fossils, matrix and early local souvenirs
Worldwide opal display, synthetic opal display, and a vast array of gems and minerals, stromatolites, meteorites and “space junk’
3) Cal the Stoner’s Outdoor Stonemasonry Studio
4) Dodgy Brothers Liquor Store ( Andamooka Cellarbrations)
5) Shopping at Boo-Teek’ OP Shop
6) Historic Cottages
7 ) Tuckabox Hotel
- The only pub, the legendary Tuckabox Hotel has been closed since March 2020
8 )Andamooka New Cemetery ( Boot Hill)
Every grave is unique, and each name tells a story due to the variety of different nationalities that lay up there. Annual All Souls Night. Many sites displayed the deceased’s personal effects, often their mining gear. Some epitaphs only offered the date of death, with birthdays forgotten or never known