Wednesday - Total distance 578 km
Chiang Rai - Chiang Mai via Route 118, to Pai & Mae Hong Son via 1095/108, to Mae Sariang via 108
The morning we wake up from
Meesuk Residence we headed south to Chiang Mai. The cold December morning ride was of low visibility and the temperature was about 16 degrees. Steven was cold and put on his rain coat.
We stopped by at a noodle shop and had our breakfast. After that we headed our way towards Chiang Mai.
The plan for the day was got Steven to get this 1,864 certificate at Mae Hong Son and to get to Mae Sariang on the same day. Another challenging day with about 12 hours riding as we are to board a train to Bangkok the next day from Chiang Mai in the afternoon.
The ride down to Chiang Mai was cooling with the December weather and we left the highway and head to the mountains at about noon. I have ridden Mae Hong Son from Chinag Mai several times and I was excited about riding these roads again.
The Boten potholes at Boten are no joke. The Versys was touch enough to handle the terrain.
The bike was looking dirty. How an ADV bike should look like anyway.
RIP bugs.
I do not take pictures / selfies with the long neck tribe, tigers or elephant in Thailand. I find it is distasteful and degrading for long neck ladies as if they are some inhumane object. I wouldn't want to take a picture with a heavily drugged tiger as well.
But a chubby local trader by the road side, I will say yes!
That was Steven arriving at the office where they print the certificate. There are few places that does this printing. By Nov 2017, there are at least 2 offices that print the certificate with several designs.
Visited this old friend at Khun Yuam.
Finally we arrive Mae Sariang at about 8 pm local time and checked in to
Riverbank Guest house. We took a room each at the rate of 1000b due to most hotels were full that night.
Another good Thai dinner at
Coriander Redwood restaurant.
It was another good day riding. We look forward to the train ride the next day at Chiang Mai.
