Day 25. 23.04.22. Khao Lak to Chumphon. 311 km

A nice ride this morning, luckily dodging some rain and enjoyable roads.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v1OwQ5D4jEq

Day 26. 24.04.22 Chumphon to Hua Hin. 271 km

An extremely hot ride this morning, no stops as needed to get out of the sun.

Day 27. 25.04.22. Bike service

Day 28. 26.04.22. Hua Hin to Kanchanaburi. 270 km

Day 29. 27.04.22. Around Kanchanaburi. 111km

Just an easy day looking for photo ideas.

https://www.relive.cc/view/vwq1BgpmNLv

Day 24. 22.04.22. Tsunami memorial, Takua Pa District, Phang-nga.

Yet another lazy day’s ride to the tsunami memorial near Khao Lak.

https://goo.gl/maps/6wQQfVYcXDqY61F78

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Day 23. 21.04.22. Ao Nang to Khao Lak. 157km

I nice steady ride today cutting through the countryside for a while.

Today was the fourth time I have been stopped by the police on this trip and asked to show my license.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v36APGDj2ZO

Day 22. 20.04.22. Ao Nang to Tubtaek beach and Ao Thalane. 84km

An easy few hours riding around local sites today.

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Day 20. 18.04.22. Songkhla to Ao Nang. 324 km

I was riding to Betong, but the forecast was 90% rain, as I had been before I decided to ride back to Ao Nang.

There was light rain when I left followed by heavy rain in the hills before Trang. I arrived in Ao Nang to a heavy thunderstorm, luckily I had just walked into a bar for beer and food when it started really hard. So I waited it out and not a bad days riding.

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Day 21. 19.04.22

I just walked around Ao Nang taking photos.

Day 19. 17.04.22. Krabi to Songkhla. 308km

I headed due east from Krabi R4, 1009, 4151, 408 to the coast then south. A very enjoyable ride on good roads, but in places the amount of traffic lights was crazy.

Day 17. 15.04.22 Surat Thani to Krabi. 171km

A slow and hot ride some through back roads into Krabi town.

Day 18. 16.04.22. Around Krabi. 80km

Another scorching day here in Krabi, I rode down Ao Nang Beach and the area.

Day 15. 13.04.22. Chumphon. 96 km

A ride out to see an old friend and their family today then a great evening in a restaurant with good food and music.

Day 16. 14.04.22. Chumphon to Surat Thani. 363km

Today although hot the haze had decreased a lot, I took roads near the coast at times.

After arriving at Surat Thani town I decided to ride on to the coast for an hour to this area.

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On arriving I found the area fully booked, and after a beer I road back to town.

Back in Surat I was given the runaround by the hotel I found.

“Can I see the room……….not our policy”

I was tired so decided to stay anyway.

After parking the bike in staff car park, unloading it and walking to reception, they as usual asked for my i.d. No  problem, then proof of ejecting magic juice.

I refused to answer if I had taken it or not and they then asked me to take a test.

I asked if he was a qualified doctor?

Pack bags and off to find new hotel.

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Day 14. 12.04.22. Hua Hin to Chumphon. 302km.

Very hot and hazy today, storms must be brewing. I followed the coast road in place which were very quiet. Near Chumphon i stopped for lunch and a beer on the beach.

https://goo.gl/maps/Y5rppNwojEzhL5fX8

https://www.relive.cc/view/vZqNx74Lg3O

Day 12. 10.04.22. Kanchanaburi to Hua Hin. 271km

Some nice back road riding today before meeting the main road at Cha Am.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v8qVBnnA47q

Day 13. 11.04.22. Hua Hin. 56km

Just a bike service today, very hot and terrible haze/smog.

I stayed in a room on the pier here, unfortunately there was a rat who lived here too. And some strange reason it was stealing the soap from the bathroom! I couldn’t work out where the soap was going until I caught the rat actually running away with it.

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Day 11. 09.04.22. Tham Krasae Railway Bridge. 93km

Tham Krasae Railway Bridge, another easy, hot and hazy ride today, I wandered along the railway and nearly missed an opportunity to take photos of the train crossing it. 

https://goo.gl/maps/NzSWSBPMAzhiurMS7

https://www.relive.cc/view/vdvmKKGZNx6

Day 7. 05.04.22. Tak to bkk. 420km.

A boring ride and hot ride into bkk today to visit friends.

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Day 8. 06.04.22. Bkk

Day 9. Bkk to Kanchanaburi. 07.04.22. 141km

A hot and easy ride for a few day stay.

Day 10. 08.04.22. The suspension bridge south of Hellfire Pass. I86km.

Today I rode through the Hellfire Pass to get to the suspension bridge, then a few km of looking around before returning to Kanchanaburi.

https://goo.gl/maps/5Admy8Aje5jzJtxw9

Day 6. 04.04.22 Sukhothai to Tak. 103 km

A lazy and easy ride today with lunch on the side of the Ping river.

https://www.relive.cc/view/vdvmKKJY2x6

Day 5. 03.04.22

A pleasant morning in Sukhothai Historical Park

A large place to wander around and worth the “farang” price of 100 baht. Although I do hate this double pricing.

https://goo.gl/maps/dytfoywjnR22pHNK9

I also visited Wat Si Chum, which was the same price for some strange reason.

https://goo.gl/maps/7ztU3fNmqiWELrxW6

Day 4. 02.04.22 Lopburi to Sukhothai via Phu-ta-berk. 518km

An easy ride to Phu Ta Berk this morning, quite cool at the top due to high cloud cover and the altitude.

https://goo.gl/maps/iovKip983jtquv63A

For some reason there were many people taking photos from the roadside.

Back down and a straight ride to Suhkothai.

https://www.relive.cc/view/vxOQoYzPZMq

Day 3. 01.04.22. Ban Kruat to Lopburi via Phimai Historical Park. 436km

Rain was forecast for the next two days, so I decided to move on early. My first stop was Phimai Historical Park, from there I rode to Lopburi.

The rain started as I left Phimai, but not hard.

https://goo.gl/maps/FrWpwwPJBujcg1cC8

https://www.relive.cc/view/vmqXNXy8VoO

Day 2. Ban Kruat Border Sites. 57km

Today just local, first stop was a small lake on my way to Chong-o-bok

https://goo.gl/maps/TaEHcf5MQeveshzaA

After chatting with a soldier at the border lookout place I went to a small pond to take photos. As I got off the bike I heard a loud an unexpected “sa-wat-dee-khrap” that made me jump. But there was nobody there! Then he said “up” and there was a guy sat in the tree, who told me he was fishing.

He actually had some kind of rifle shaped crossbow that fired a net down into the lake.

I then rode to Tarn 472, again on the Cambodian border. 14°19'12.9"N 103°07'46.1"E

Returning I cut a left through the jungle to Pha Ta Rung

https://goo.gl/maps/mmDCrzus8veDEsaa7

I got a little off track and found a train on top of a cliff overlooking a lake on my way back too.

https://www.relive.cc/view/vevYoxWr4y6

19 hours ago, apetryxx said:

I have never seen anything more inane than folks roaring around on a scooter with a face mask and no helmet.

How do you roar around on a scooter?

20 hours ago, shackleton said:

Most of the Country adheres to the traditional custom over Songkran ????

Pattaya and Kao San Road are for mainly tourists to throw blast each other with  iced water plastic water guns ect  plenty of alcohol involved ????

Will be interesting to see how many actual tourists will be there if there is no water celebrations allowed ????

There are far more places than that who have at least one mad day of water throwing.

This course will help as it teaches the alphabet, tone rules etc before moving onto the lessons. 

https://www.highspeedthai.com/

11 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Informing someone that they couldn't purchase alcohol at 3 PM really isn't a "weird" thing to do, its actually being quite helpful to the person .

  What made you think that it would be a weird thing to do . 

Although it my have been weird if you  were lustfully leering at her whilst she was shopping  

Pick up a pack of beer, leave the money on the counter and walk out.  They can ring it up later.

2 hours ago, ehs818 said:

I never count on anything that any government official says here. There are two many changes, cancellations, revisions, and the like just days later. I read reputable sites online and continue to wear a good mask (N95 or N95) when around ANY people. I act in a manner I refer to as socially considerate. Can't be too safe with Covid. It's not going away, it continues to mutate, and I don't want to be responsible for passing it along thru others to some older person who just dies from it. If wearing a mask is so unbearable for you, try having an intubation tube down your throat while hospitalized. Man up and just do the responsible thing! Either way, when I am walking in a mall or at Big C and see improperly masked (nose not covered) people walking towards me, I move as far away from them as I can. And I give them 'the look'. They mostly are other farangs doing this. But I've stopped trying to reason with them thru conversation. You can't cure stupid and they get so defensive and aggressive that I'd rather not engage with willfully ignorant and inconsiderate people.

You read from reputable sites? 55555555555

Mans best friend if you treat them right. ????