Wat Bo Kaeo - Na Muen - Nan Attractions

[DavidFL]

Wat Bo Kaeo - Nan Muen

I stumbled across this amazing beauty on a GTR Dinner & posted a few pics there,

GT Rider Up Country Dinner # 33 Na Noi

Confirmed! Nan Noi - the last Wednesday in November 2021 = Wednesday 24th November. We've had one in Nan Noi earlier: Wednesday 29th May 2019. https://www.gt-rider.com/se-asia-motorcycling/threads/gt-rider-up-country-dinner-13-na-noi.15597/...

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but Wat Bo Kaeo is worth a lot more photos.

I hope you enjoy them & get inspired to go for a ride on 1026 to Na Muen.

An amazing wat in an out of the way place, worthy of a few more photos than posted on my GTR Na Noi Dinner report.

Check it out sometime.

Wat Bo Kaew · Bo Kaeo, Na Muen District, Nan 55180, Thailand

★★★★★ · Buddhist temple

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R1026 is always worth a ride!

 

[canthai]

Was up there Saturday.
The area around there needs a return trip with the CRF - lots of places yo explore.
Came in from Phrae over the 4010 - tight, twisty, steep, deserted.

 

[Moor66]

4010 last few weeks ago. I dont remember any poor surfaces, except on the very steep concrete sections. Totally deserted, I met more big bikes than cars

 

[Gregthemagnificent]

4010 last few weeks ago. I dont remember any poor surfaces, except on the very steep concrete sections. Totally deserted, I met more big bikes than cars

Good to know. It's in my 2025 ride plan - a loop ride out of Phrae, along with the 1216

 

[Moor66]

Looping out from Phrae on 1024 up to 1342 is a super nice smooth abandoned partly overgrown route, but 1216 I will not go again- way too much traffic both tourists and locals, they are building new coffe shops and everything along the western stretch. Many mudslides and sandy bends too. But the 4010 route I will take many times again, continiuing up on the curvy racetrack to Wiang Sa. Or take right in Na Noi into the fantastic 1083 and loop around Sirikit. Sooo many lovely fast well-paved roads around there

 

[Morningrider]

Indeed great roads. I was lucky to have the best part of the 1083 all to myself for a couple of hours, only a few local scooters. The 1083 is closed at the Nan river because of washouts. So I rode the eastern part to the closure and back to the junction, detoured to Na Noi, and spent the night at the Jampee. Then the next day rode the western part to the sunrise at Doi Samer Dao, then to the closure (a different closure, as it turned out) and back (stopping at Doi Samer Dao again, but the ground fog had already started to evaporate and the view was not as good). Between Doi Samer and the closure there was zero traffic. Biker bliss.

The R1083 road closures:

The R1083 washout at the Nan River (from the east side, facing west):

Doi Samer Dao on the R1083 at 07:40:

I enjoy dead-end roads. Much less traffic than through roads, and on the way back you can go a little faster because you know what to expect. And you see things (and can take photos) from a different perspective.