Well it's been a fair few weeks since my last blog update, having travelled to Tibet and back, I'm now in southern Yunnan, China where I'm spending a few days before heading south to Laos. In the meantime, I've travelled with a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, taken buses with Tibetan nomads through mountain passes to Shangri-La and trekked the Tiger Leaping Gorge - so it's been a busy time! Trying to keep with my rules of no flights to Australia, I had to either take the train to Lhasa which takes 48 hours, or the bus which takes several days - so needless to say I opted for the brand new train from Chengdu, which I'd been told promised spectacular views across the Tibetan Plateau. I then had to sign a disclaimer, advising that I should be
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