New tarmac to Gong Hae (cycling)

[NorthernRyland]

I was just in Colorado for 2 months and when I got back I noticed new tarmac on the road to Hmong Village Gong Hae from Pong Yaeng. This is one of my cycling routes and the road has always been smashed up concrete, for at least 10 years I've been riding it and probably forever. Location here https://maps.app.goo.gl/UUs8GaNrjyCi15Mu8.

 

The road into the village is still crap but there's a bypass around it with is new tarmac and I think they even did the road which comes out to the main road to Samoeng but it was raining yesterday and that road has some 20% grade curves that would be insanely dangerous if it's wet and tarmac. 

 

So now you can do tarmac on most of the road and only hit concrete on the bypass to Buak Chan and down the backside to the Samoeng/Hang Dong border. It's a great ride and so much more fun now to cruise up to Gong Hae. Note there's some more tourist stuff there's opening (WTF coffee) so it may get busy in the winter sadly.

 

 

 

 

This is the top at Buak Chan with the bubble tents they put up a few years ago.