Experience a unique, underground hotel in Coober Pedy, Australia

SYDNEY, Aug. 22 (People's Daily Online) -- Due to the extreme weather in the town of Coober Pedy, located in southern Australia, most locals choose to live underground. Construction on Desert Cave Hotel began in 1984. The hotel finally opened in 1988, delayed by various factors including high temperatures and dust storms.

Visitors have their choice of whether to stay underground or above ground. Underground rooms, which feature high ceilings, offer guests an especially cool, quiet, dry and dark environment, which ensures that guests sleep very well.

The hotel won the South Australian and National Tourism Award for Tourism Development in 1989, and the South Australian Tourism Award in the category of national standard accommodations in 1990 and 1991.

Robert Coro, the managing director of the hotel, says many tourists are attracted by the idea of living underground. They like to visit the underground rooms, and the majority choose to try staying underground themselves. Peak season, which is April to October, is winter in Australia. However, Coro said that most Chinese tourists come during the Australian summer. (People's Daily Online / Qian Guo)