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Overnight Premium Tour
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. Andamooka opal is renowned as being the finest quality opal in the world. 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 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.
Call to book your Overnight Premium Tour experience: 0466265377 /0487112747
Premium Day Tour
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. Andamooka opal is renowned as being the finest quality opal in the world. 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.
Call to book your Premium Day Tour experience: 0466265377 /0487112747
Opal Mining 101 Tour
Want to know about opal mining? How to get started and where to go? How to get a claim? Good noodling spots? What are the rules?
Learn about Karkaroo the juvenile Andamooka Plesiosaur, ancient cephalopods, the Eromanga Sea, and South Australia’s only known dinosaur ‘Kakuru Kujani!
Local history and opal lore
The tour includes a visit to Cal the Stoner’s Outdoor Stonemasonry Studio and to the One Tree Hill and German Gully opal fields.
Daily 10 am & 2 pm
Adults $50 / Kids: $25 / Kids under 5 are free.
2-hour tour with local guides
We recommend to wear clothes that you don’t mind getting a little dirt/dust on from noodling and to bring water, sunscreen, insect repellant and sturdy footwear
Stargazing & Opal Noodling Nocturnal Tour
Tours include the use of LED UV flashlights, torches, microscopes, binoculars, and telescopes.
Daily 8 pm
Adults $55 / Kids: $25 / Kids under 5 are free.
2-hour tour with local guides