If dirt riding is your thing, a Thailand off road motorcycle tour is hard to beat for the quality of the dirt trails, solitary elevated scenery & great food.
Here’s one of the best areas in north Thailand for off-road trails:
Untouched, mountainous, off-road riding regions in Thailand. They are easily as good as anything you can find in Laos.
Southwest from Chiang Mai and off for a look at the condition of the “Death Valley” trail
Ruts were average deep and it was dry, with the motorcycles loaded with gear, being one of the nastiest do-able trails around Chaing Mai, we gave it a miss.
The 4 standing Buddha’s Temple, quite a shot
Always looks good dropping into Mae Chaem
The rain has stopped and its now the harvest time in Thailand. Corn, cabbages, rice & assorted vegetables all been plucked from mother nature. Its best to be extra careful on the farm trails with pickups around.
We’re now into some fabulous remote country, lovely trails
The sun gets low and a good time for photo’s with the light like this
One of the bikes picks up a nail, we have plenty of spare tubes with us
Some harvesters returning home after a day of plucking
We’re told there’s a truck along the trail with a compressor, it’ll be a quick way to set the bead on the tire at 50 psi
Wouldnt inflate, looks like the tube was pinched, time for a second new tube
Another try with the trucks compressor and it inflates in seconds, interesting how they do this with a rag wrapped around the valve.
Topping up with some pump up before we head in to the trails
For being early, rewarded with the rising mist through the mountains
A little bit of concrete between the villages
The red sandy clay was bone dry, plenty of dust
The amazing suspension bridge thats purposely been made narrow so that motorcycle cannot traverse it
Happy chuckling Karen Tribe ladies
What a unique region this is in north western Thailand
Following the locals
They don’t often see motorcycles this deep inside, the kids were fascinated
Back out again
Chili’s drying in the sun
Plenty of rivers around, wet season this area must be hard work
Into the next village
Looked like a fish catch to start with but actually was a hydro, the same as you see around the Vietnam/ Laos border areas
Some very cool bridges in the Karen tribe re-settlement areas
Can you think of a more idealistic place to ride?
More unusual bridges
Fuel depot’s are kept away from the housing areas. Everything made of dried wood it would flare up pretty quickly
The wooden bridge through to the big camp
Back towards civilization and a little soupy in places
Still nice and green
Surprised how much talc powder there was already
Out towards the Salaween River, the first close-up views of Myanmar
Buffalo “shipped” over from Myanmar. They sell at the border off the boat for 5,000 Bht, inland rural areas of Thailand they can be sold for 10,000 Bht
Landslide and road widening are common here
Out to the border town to take a close look at Myanmar across the river
Back towards Mae Sariang & how beautiful is this?
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