Na Noi to Phayao via Ban Luang - Google Maps offers numberless road

[MonikaH]

Hi,

later this week my Honda Click 125i and I will go from Na Noi to Phayao. Google offers going to Nan and taking the 1091 *or* going to Wiang Sa, turn left and turn right at Ban Pang Mon towards Wat Saliam and continue this road until it hits Ban Luang on the 1091 (thats where I plan to spend the night).

The road between Ban Pang Mon and Ban Luang is about 45 km and does not have a number on google maps or maps.me.

It has a number in my hiking/cycling map - starting with 3020 and ending with 3052. Does anybody know this road and rode it recently or should I rather ride to Nan first and stick to the 1091 from the start (which I went by bus in 2016 and regretted not to have the possibility to stop where I wanted ;-) ).

Thanks again for your help

 

[Dodraugen]

I havent travelled that road myself but I used Google street view and the road looks quite nice for a scooter ride…

Like this:

 

[Morningrider]

I passed that way in May 2019 and saved my Garmin track. The 45 km took me 58 minutes, including a ten minute stop. The mean grade is 6%. About 400m is over 20% grade, of which just 70m is over 25%.

If it were difficult I would have turned around! "He who turns and rides away lives to ride another day."

 

[MonikaH]

Thank you - yes, it does look perfect.

On the other hand, there some pieces on streetview missing, only several small pieces in between - so probably some technical glitch? Anyway, I'd be happy, if somebody knew the road - and could reassure me.

 

[MonikaH]

Hi Morningrider,
do you remember, if everything was sealed? Any river flowing over the road?
Thank you

Edit: your "difficult" might be my "absolutely impossible - never, ever", and my "difficult" your "hey, what a nice ride" ;-)

 

[Morningrider]

I don't remember. That was 60,000 km and almost six years ago. I didn't take any photos on that road, so there weren't any stunning vistas. But that might have been because it was May, when it tends to be hazy. The bike was a 2013 CB500X with Dunlop Mixtour tires, a road bike not a dirt bike. I am pretty quick to turn around! I always like to have an escape route in my plan, where I can turn around and go another way. And start the day early, so I have the time to chicken out, if need be.

 

[MonikaH]

Thank you - so I'll see whether I can come up with a decent chicken out plan and get up early

 

[Gregthemagnificent]

There is an impressive temple on the other side of the lake at Phayao, Wat Analayothipyaram (Luang Pu Phaibum)

Wat Analayothipyaram (Luang Pu Phaibun) · 5RG7+W27, San Pa Muang, Mueang Phayao District, Phayao 56000, Thailand

âââââ · Buddhist temple

maps.app.goo.gl

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[MonikaH]

I did that road today and it was nearly perfect. Sealed all the way, some patches a bit rough, a bit like a road in a hilly valley, mostly farmland, a few villages, but about 10 km before the end on the 1091 it climbed a bit higher and would have had a great view, hadn't it been so hazy. That part was a bit of a roller coaster, up and down, left and right ;-)

I stay in the Inboon Homestay, a huge room, the bathroom with separated shower, a kitchenette with 2 fast food soups provided. About 1 km from the 7-11. The whole of Ban Luang is a real village, even though the big 1091 cuts through it, but rather at the edge.

 

[MonikaH]

There is an impressive temple on the other side of the lake at Phayao, Wat Analayothipyaram (Luang Pu Phaibum)

Wat Analayothipyaram (Luang Pu Phaibun) · 5RG7+W27, San Pa Muang, Mueang Phayao District, Phayao 56000, Thailand

âââââ · Buddhist temple

maps.app.goo.gl

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Thanks for reminding me of the temple. I visited it in 2016 and I will go there again in the next days.

Tomorrow I am on my way to Phayao - taking the 1091 till it connects to the 1021. I went via the 1251 last year, coming more or less directly from Phrae.

 

[Dodraugen]

I rode that numberless/nameless road yesterday the road from R101 between Phrae and Nan to R1091
(Maybe we can call it the Wat Saliam rd as it passes that temple midway?)

Anyhow - it was partly a stunner of a road on a motorbike! Not a top-ten road, but definetively a top 50 rd of what I have encountered in Thailand.

Stopped only once for photos at a rest area, called camping area on Google maps….
Its called Doi Khun Suad

 

[DavidFL]

I did that road today and it was nearly perfect. Sealed all the way, some patches a bit rough, a bit like a road in a hilly valley, mostly farmland, a few villages, but about 10 km before the end on the 1091 it climbed a bit higher and would have had a great view, hadn't it been so hazy. That part was a bit of a roller coaster, up and down, left and right ;-)

I stay in the Inboon Homestay, a huge room, the bathroom with separated shower, a kitchenette with 2 fast food soups provided. About 1 km from the 7-11. The whole of Ban Luang is a real village, even though the big 1091 cuts through it, but rather at the edge.

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Brilliant. Well done.
Yeah, Ban Luang is a sprawling village, especially on the south side.
I've often thought of having a night there, as it is so traditional/rural.