Captain_Slash
Community Manager
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2011
- Bikes
- BMW 310GS Honda Wave 125 Honda MSX 125
Total distance 145 km
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Chicken curry and rice from the Wednesday market 70 Baht
A truck came the other way and I had to stop and wait for a bit to be able to see the track again.
I was planning on riding up here again tomorrow as I saw other tracks going off but I might leave it until I am here again in november as the bulldust is no joke
I was lucky getting to ride this today before any fires were lit or it would have been a rather unpleasant ride
Look at that lot waiting to be burnt
As I am riding east towards Sop Moei and the 105 the track is getting dustier
Riding back and looking down on the second village
A rather large pig
Before turning down to the village I saw another one to my right and this is also called Ban Mae Kek, here I am given some cold water which was welcome
The Teacher is from Bangkok and speaks good English.
He tells me the village name and says Mae Pua is the rivers name
A useful accessory
Now in Ban Mae Kek
These two live in this house along the track
After some steep climbing on loose dusty soil I can see the village down there
A bridge here so the villagers can get in and out during the wet season
The track doesn't appear to go anywhere so I try the other turn
A bit too deep there
At the streams confluence I ride through taking the left choice
Along the next new track which will take me to Ban Mae Kek and the red ants eggs are being harvested
I explore a second unmapped track and this too takes me down to the same stream
About 4 degrees cooler here then I experienced two days ago along the 108
Some company turns up
It finishes at the stream which makes a good lunch stop under the shade of a tree
Time to explore a side track that isn't on the map
A checkpoint not far past Mae Sam Laep that I don't remember on previous trips
Still some water in this stream
The Salawin at Mae Sam Laep
My GPS is a strange device, yesterday it stopped working off the bikes battery but would work from AA batteries or plugged into the computer.
This morning I put it on the bike, it fired straight up using the bikes battery and ran perfectly all day
Photos last to first
Chicken curry and rice from the Wednesday market 70 Baht
A truck came the other way and I had to stop and wait for a bit to be able to see the track again.
I was planning on riding up here again tomorrow as I saw other tracks going off but I might leave it until I am here again in november as the bulldust is no joke
I was lucky getting to ride this today before any fires were lit or it would have been a rather unpleasant ride
Look at that lot waiting to be burnt
As I am riding east towards Sop Moei and the 105 the track is getting dustier
Riding back and looking down on the second village
A rather large pig
Before turning down to the village I saw another one to my right and this is also called Ban Mae Kek, here I am given some cold water which was welcome
The Teacher is from Bangkok and speaks good English.
He tells me the village name and says Mae Pua is the rivers name
A useful accessory
Now in Ban Mae Kek
These two live in this house along the track
After some steep climbing on loose dusty soil I can see the village down there
A bridge here so the villagers can get in and out during the wet season
The track doesn't appear to go anywhere so I try the other turn
A bit too deep there
At the streams confluence I ride through taking the left choice
Along the next new track which will take me to Ban Mae Kek and the red ants eggs are being harvested
I explore a second unmapped track and this too takes me down to the same stream
About 4 degrees cooler here then I experienced two days ago along the 108
Some company turns up
It finishes at the stream which makes a good lunch stop under the shade of a tree
Time to explore a side track that isn't on the map
A checkpoint not far past Mae Sam Laep that I don't remember on previous trips
Still some water in this stream
The Salawin at Mae Sam Laep
My GPS is a strange device, yesterday it stopped working off the bikes battery but would work from AA batteries or plugged into the computer.
This morning I put it on the bike, it fired straight up using the bikes battery and ran perfectly all day
