The end of raining season

[Ughetto]

Middle october 2025
I want to drive motorcycle
My girlfriend no.
And so pick up and scooter ….
The moonson season still not finish
and the street I do with my Triumph I will get problem expecially wiang heng to pai off road.
Anyway a little in a hurry I must to go to Nepal next week and Italy when i come back.
Let start with last trip start last sunday 12 october.
First night at Doi Angkhang
The day after eat at royal project restaurant

 

[Ughetto]

Monday 13 october i was thinking to drive until Wiang Hen
But we start soon and I continue to Pai

Arunothai first 3 photo

And then Pai off road
The photo no explain the difficult of the street
In October never happen a lot of mud like this in some point can make complicated travel alone with a heavy motorbike but also 4 wheel car
Can cry for sure
People alwayes lovely can help but better a cross bike

 

[Ughetto]

Doi Angkhang 180 thai baht for tend we have
Pai I need spa for my bone
And so 2 days Hot Spring Pai resort and spa
1500 thai baht with breakfast.
Covid time prive was 1000 baht
A little old building but in a park along the river
Pai have Tourist Chiang Rai not too much now

 

[Ughetto]

Start from Pai yesterday thinking drive until mae Hong son
Change idea want put tend in a lake near ban rak thai but was raining
And so rent a room ban rak thai 1000 baht

 

[Ughetto]

Second Mountain pass
Pai to Ban Rak Thai o Mae Hong Son
And at the end Ban Rak Thai
Cannot imagine the success have the place
1998 first time i drive Suzuki 150 cc from phuket to ban rak thai strett not paved red street need time from mae Hong son to arrive and only me in the square and one cinese with minivan
Today 7 am have already the lake full of boat
Alwayes good cinese food
I finish diesel alone the way
In Ban rak thai is possible to found at entrance small automatic self service benzine and diesel
Expensive 45 thai baht litres but have

 

[Ughetto]

Today ban rak thai to mae Hong son
Take off the scooter for first time

 

[Ughetto]

 

[Ughetto]

Ban Rak Thai today in the morning.

 

[Ughetto]

Mae Hong Son
Sad not to be in the border street I love
expecially the mae Hong son loop with motorcycle
But a lot of rain last days along the way
There will be soon a better time to enjoy.

 

[Franz]

Luca i am sure you enjoyed this trip and you dared to take that dirttrack during rainy season to Pai. Bahn Rak Thai is one of my favourite places up North too. I always go there during low season as i cannot stand the BKK plated vehicles and its contents during high season. Have you also been to Pang Ung lake nearby?

Pang Ung · Mueang Mae Hong Son District, Mae Hong Son

maps.app.goo.gl

 

[Ughetto]

Ciao Franz,I was thinking like many time go to camping
Pong Ung but was raining and so I change idea for hotel ban rak thai 1000 baht new close to cinese restaurant

 

[Franz]

Last time i went there they also have rooms for rent near the shore on the wooded slope. I will check them out next time i go there

 

[DavidFL]

Awesome report & photo collection Luca.
Many thanks for posting - it is much appreciated.
I like your eye for detail of interesting subjects.
I'd like to go out riding together again, taking photos together.'

 

[Moto-Rex]

Great report Ughetto
Ban Rak Thai looks stunning, and I've never seen photos of the lake at night.
It looks to have become a real tourist hotspot now, and lot busier than when I was last there.
Thanks for the current information, and brilliant photos.

 

[Ughetto]

Ciao everybody
I am in Bangkok ready for fly to Nepal next 10 days.
Yesterday they make me go outside from highway in Bangkok
Motorbike cannot
Boring drive in a traffic of Bangkok
Theorie hotel sukumvitt 107 bearing
560 thai baht
I sleep there because is near where I parking my bike
Get storm 30 minutes uttharadit
I pass from pitsanouk look friends
Pitsanouluk get more risk with thai local driver drunk
full of Buddha image at the neck and in the car
and when come back from the pub drive one young boy.
I not do anymore let orher people drive

 

[DavidFL]

Enjoy Nepal Luca. Should be a great trip.

 

[Heineken]

Have a great trip Luca, good to see you the other night

 

[Franz]

Enjoy Kathmandu Luca, is still my favourite town in S-Asia, as is Pokhara.

 

[Franz]

5555555555 i understand you being upset Luca, me the same, i always want a good quality of food regardless of where and when. If I have to save on food then I did something really wrong in my life. Apart from that i never ever book a tour or something where i have not 100% control over it. And in South Asia i never follow peoples recommendations as always "commission" of the recommender involved.

Apart from that also as little as possible any F&B products of any chain restaurant, Coffeshop or Pizza place especially the american crap........

 

[DavidFL]

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