Instead of flying we decided to book ourselves on a two day tour travelling from Adelaide to Alice Springs. The company we chose was called Groovy Grape and so was our bus driver / tour guide. We had a 21 seater mini bus with a trailer on the back to carry every ones luggage. The bus was full and off we went heading towards the Stuart Highway which takes you all the way to Alice Springs. We travelled in the mini bus for around 12 hours the first day and stopped overnight at Coober Perdy, home to 80% of the world's opal production and a landscape that looked more like Mars. The locals live underground and so did we that night! The following day we had a quick tour around and underground mine and then back on the Stuart Highway for Alice Springs.
Now normally travelling in a packed mini bus, temperature outside around 40 degrees, air con off most of the time you getting the picture yet... hot and sweaty! But boy it was the most amazing two days. The bus driver / tour guide was called Clancy and we became the Clancy family for two days, check out our family portrait (Clancy is the one in the blue vest lying down at the front) and he was amazing fun. We had games, sing songs and water fights on the bus. It was an absolute scream and we all got on so well, we met up for dinner our first night in Alice Springs!
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