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Traveling and climbing in Victoria 17-Mar-2012 At 1:54:22 AM yevquest

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Thanks a lot for the responses, very helpful. To answer some questions:

I'm trying to do my research for a trip in May 2013 so I have plenty of time. I'm currently leaning toward Australia for a few reasons. Because of work, I'm pretty constrained to travel in May or June. The issues that I'm weighing are cultural experience (China), ease of travel (Australia), cost (wash?), limestone vs sandstone (China, I live in the south of the U.S. and climb on sandstone a lot), and the weather. I really dislike climbing in the heat and I think China will just be too hot. (10C is good route weather to me, sun or shade)

My plan would be to fly to Australia and rent a car for the month (big expense). While, I'd rather not spend the money to rent a car, I want the flexibility to so travel and see as much of the surrounding areas that I can on rest days. I'd climb for the month of May and then my wife would fly over and we'd do more of a tourist type vacation for a few weeks, some climbing, some not. We'd be based out of Sydney for at least some of that so maybe the Blueys would be best then.

Are there any other areas that are unique or worthy? We'll probably go north towards the Great Barrier Reef, anything up there to climb on or should we just enjoy the ocean?

Thanks again!