If you travel to Australia for a holiday, then there's always the chance of striking rich. Places such as Melbourne, Coober Pedy, Ballarat and Sydney have places where you may just get lucky. Here's how you can find your fortune Down Under:
Noodle for opals
If we didn’t know any better, this would look suspiciously like an Al-Qaeda hotbed. For a start, everyone seems to live in caves blasted into the rock. Secondly, according to our guide, a popular family activity for Sunday afternoons is sitting around, making bombs.
This is Coober Pedy, possibly the weirdest town on earth. It is smack bang in the middle of the South Australian desert, miles from anywhere, and temperatures routinely top 40 degrees.