Excellent scenic trips in Phayao area

[thaibeachlovers]

Phu Sang waterfall.

I can recommend a day trip to Phu Sang waterfall. Lovely small park, with public toilets and adequate restaurants. Free but parking costs 30 baht per car and 20 per motorbike.

There is a visitor centre, but picture captions only in Thai and not a lot of English speakers around.

Took me 2 hours from Phayao on mostly good roads. Signposted. I went on the 1021 till the 1093 past Chiang Kham.

After staying a while, we carried on up the hill road. Lots of jungle and cultivated hills with small villages in the most unexpected places. Not easy to get lost with just one turn off to the Lao border to the right.

Road new in places and very bad in others, but could be done on a motorbike. Don't expect to fill the vehicle after the waterfall, till back on the flat.

Did the loop back to the 1021 without problems. Signposted.

Left Phayao at 10am and got back at 6pm with plenty of time to stop along the way.

 

Phayao lake.

I rode around the sparsely populated west side of the lake and there are some pleasant spots to stop and admire the view. Easiest to find the lakeside road from the north, as the road gets lost in a maze of village roads at the south.

Best on a motorbike as the road is very narrow.

Travel north of the city on 1 till the road to the left that crosses the bridge, and the first road to the left after the bridge is the lakeside road. Very winding as it is on an embankment. At one place there is a small exercise park ( toilets have no water and not in use ), and some distance further on there is a small sala to sit and look at the view.

Lots of locals fishing along the way.

At the south end it's just a case of guessing which way to go through the little villages, but eventually one will find the big road to head back to Phayao on.

If wanting to do it after visiting Wat Analayo, there are small sois that lead from near the Wat turn off on the 1193 that lead down to the lakeside.

[ripstanley]

I have travelled the road many times as we live in a small village off that road. There is even a sheep farm with a small golf putting course off the the road. Where are you staying in Phayao?

[VirgoSG]

Another waterfall in the are is Than Sawan, about an hour SE of Phayao city.  Not dramatic at all, but really beautiful, nicest I've seen in Thailand.  You can find it on Google Maps by searching "Than Sawan Waterfall"

 

[thaibeachlovers]

18 hours ago, ripstanley said:

I have travelled the road many times as we live in a small village off that road. There is even a sheep farm with a small golf putting course off the the road. Where are you staying in Phayao?

I was only there 3 days, and gone now, probably for good.

I stayed near the lake.

I wish Pattaya had a beach front as nice as the Phayao lakefront, and I like that Phayao has some parks. Pattaya and Chiang Mai would do well to do the same.

I didn't mention Wat Analayo as a destination, but it's as pleasant a Wat as any I have been to see.

[sceadugenga]

Thanks for the report, much appreciated.

[Justfine]

On 08/11/2017 at 1:14 PM, VirgoSG said:

Another waterfall in the are is Than Sawan, about an hour SE of Phayao city.  Not dramatic at all, but really beautiful, nicest I've seen in Thailand.  You can find it on Google Maps by searching "Than Sawan Waterfall"

 

Any decent resorts nearby?