Motogirl 'in' Thailand
Ride taken: April 2018. Hot season. This route can be bridged with other routes as it links onto the 1095 road to Pai and the Wat Chan route to Pai. Route Taken: (Google Map Link) <– there is a dirt road that google map doesn’t show, that cuts directly from วัดป่าธรรมแสงทอง area to Ban Mae Khrai. I will try updating
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Samoeng to Mae Win (off-road), then a long loop back to Chiang Mai (via rural roads). *NOTE* For a full route map and download link for a Garmin route go to Ally Taylor’s webpage. Many thanks to Ally for linking me to her website a year ago in order for me to (eventually) find this route. Her guide is from 2010. There
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I have attended Songkran consecutively in Chiang Mai each year since 2007. Here is a selection of video clips and photos I have taken over this ten year Songkran period. NOTE: The old footage is not great quality. From 2015 onwards the quality is HD. Traditionally, Songkran (Thai New Year) is a gentle water festival. It is a time to
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A fun ride with (party people) friends, with the focus being not just the ride, but the nightlife of Pai. So this trip report is a bit of a social and fun one, with an update on how the town of Pai is in more recent times.. FULL LOOP (google map link) Pai now officially has a proper road loop!
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Finally, following a bout of ill health and a few other commitments, I was able to get a ‘proper’ motorcycle trip in. December period was pretty much ride free and January saw me take on just a couple of day rides. So, was great to get back on the bike and get out again. This ride is in two stages.
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I had a last minute offer from my friend David to join in on a ride to Laos. He planned on heading to Muang Sing, for a festival that was being held there (the Boun That Xieng Teung festival). Given that I had been wanting the experience of taking my motorbike across into Laos and riding there for some time, plus
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I was invited to join an official tour group that TBB Tours were hosting. It was too good an opportunity to decline (despite some initial reservations of riding with people that I did not know, on a bike I was unfamiliar with). The tour would be a four day Mae Hong Son Loop tour, a route that I know well. However,
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