See combined New Zealand and Australia entry.

See combined New Zealand and Australia entry.

Beaches, temples and bustling asian cities were in our minds eye for month three on the road. For time and money reasons we decided to drop Japan from our itineray and spend more time in Thailand and Cambodia . Quality not quantity was the focus and we decided that we want to do Japan in style at a later date. Strange choice in some ways because Thailand was somewhere neither of us had really been drawn to before the trip and Cambodia only really became possible ...

See Thailand entry for Cambodia travel tales.

In search of chilled China. After a dizzying month of moving on from place to place and traversing half of China in one month we decided to slow the pace a little; exchange city and town for village and countryside, and swap train, plane and ferry for bike, foot and dug out canoe! We started our journey of south west and south China in Lijiang , Yunnan province and used this pretty little mountain town as our base for the next couple of weeks. Lijiang itsel...