13-2-17 Mae Sariang-Dong Luang, New Tracks, Settlement And A New Loop

Captain_Slash

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Total distance 98 km

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With lots of ice cream
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Mukata 149 Baht
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Looking back through the trees.
I wasn't paying attention to my gps on the ride back and after a while I suddenly looked down at it to see I was heading west on an unmapped track instead of north to go back the way I came.
As it appeared to be a well used track and would eventually link up if it went far enough I carried on, a good decision as it linked up with the track to Pha Daeng creating a new loop
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The end of the track, this is a wide river in the wet season
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More pigs here then people
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Ancient house with solar power
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Then I ride through the Nam Mae Rit to reach the settlement, it was slightly deeper then it looked and in the wet season this settlement must be cut off
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A water crossing that runs into the Nam Mae Rit
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There were only 4WD tracks on this track and it was a bit of a struggle to get back up on the KLX
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A side track I take gets too steep to ride down
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I can see buildings through the trees
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I ride back to Dong Luang and take another track
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The locals I walked down with are busy
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At this point I am 7.28 km upstream of the secret bridge
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Low water now
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I decide to follow some locals and walk it, it was not the easiest of hikes
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I ride to the end of the track and its only about 250 metres to the Nam Mae Rit
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Further east of the village and its lots of cabbages
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Broom country again today
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A new building going up in Dong Luang
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Looking down on Dong Noi
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In Dong Noi and the red flower trees are in abundance again
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Tomatoes near to Dong Noi
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Rather him then me up in the top of the tree shaking the branches
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In Huay Pla Kang its harvesting the tamarind tree time
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A sunny start
 
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