The city of Coober Pedy. The city is underground.
Houses are the initial sign of the presence of people in a certain place. But here is a city in front of you: there are no skyscrapers, no five-story buildings, no private houses here. But in fact they are! It's just that their owners build them underground.
Yes, in this city, in the Australian city of Coober Pedy, located on the edge of the desert, people really make houses for themselves underground. What for? To distinguish yourself from people from other cities? No. Unbearable heat and sandstorms have prompted residents of Coober Pedy to "erect" houses where they are not usually erected by other people.
About 1,700 residents live here. Most of them are engaged in the extraction of opals, as there is a wealth of them here. People from Coober Pedy make houses for themselves in sandstone, at a depth of two and a half to six meters.
From the very beginning, the inhabitants of this unusual town began to settle in "apartments" that were cut down in the mountainside. They were quite comfortable. In terms of comfort, they are rather on a par with the apartments that we are used to seeing. They had bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and even bathrooms! Here, a pleasant temperature for the human body was maintained throughout the year: 22 degrees Celsius. But in some ways they differed from "our" apartments: they had no more than two windows (if there were more than two, then the "apartment" would heat up, and it would become too hot).
Since the residents of Coober Pedy have no sewage system underground, they have a toilet and a cooking place at ground level. The rest of the rooms are located deep in such houses. Columns are used to support the ceilings. These houses also have roofs. Only they appear before the eyes in the form of ventilation holes that look out from under the ground.
If you are a resident of Coober Pedy, and if you decide to build yourself such an underground house, then know that such construction can make you rich. Why? Because in that "hole" that you will dig yourself as a home, there may be a huge deposit of useful minerals that are not cheap now.
Vegetation here is very poor: shrubs, cacti and low trees.
Do not think that because of the heat, the residents of Coober Pedy do not spend time outdoors. However, they do it at night. How exactly do they do it? They're playing golf!
Coober Pedy is also an interesting place for tourists to visit. They settle in a local underground hotel. Cinematographers also love this city, because these places serve to create great films and photographs. For residents of the US, UK and Australia porn online ExPornToons the best resource for adult videos, if you know what I mean.