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<blockquote data-quote="nikhuzlan" data-source="post: 659640" data-attributes="member: 19744"><p><strong>N4TION ADVLux 2012/2013. Segment 2</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Day 5, Monday 17Dec2012. Doi Tung - Mae Sai - Golden Triangle - Chiang Khong</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>We woke up to a misty, almost foggy morning, in temperatures in the mid teens. The mist was so thick we culd not sees Huay Xai across the Mekong, just about 1 km away.</strong></p><p><strong>Hisham seems a lot better, although one eye was swollen due to a cut just below the eyelid. David Bailey planned to take Hisham to the clinic again for a change of dressing. Hisham plans to ride to Pua and wait for us at the border. David will accompany him till he leaves.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>We as a group owe David loads for his kindness and all the assistance rendered. In essence, we are strangers, and David is going out of his way helping people he just met for the first time, and probably never will again.</strong></p><p><strong>Genuine great guy.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>As we were preparing our bikes at the car park, we ran into Sebastian, who accompanied us to Hatyai three weeks ago, when we started on this journey. His story is at the start of this thread. He is leaving Chiang Khong for Boten, then into China, leading a pack of 5 4WDs from Malaysia. </strong> </p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>We filled up at the edge of town and left the main road into a village track looking for a shorter way to R1155, then eventually Phu Chi Fa. The road turned fro tarmac to concrete slabs, and later gravel. We passed through acres of cornfield, deserted with not a soul in sight. The mist was still thick.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Eventually the road got worse, suitable only for 400cc MX bikes, and it will not be enjoyable as we had 18 bikes in this group </strong></p><p><strong>and 5 were with pillion riders as well. We doubled back, wasting a good 1 hour.</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_06.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_08.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_09.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>We found ourselves on tarmac again and followed the 1155 to the turn off that leads to Ban Sai Thong. Within just 1km of leaving 1155 the road turns heavenly.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_12.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_14.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>We stopped for a Group Photo</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_15.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_16.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_17.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_18.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_19.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>I didn't know it then but the peak of Phu Chi Fa can be accessed from two sides. The main access point brings vehicles up to a parking lot where there's another 800meters to be covered on foot before the peak. The other one is the less popular one, with narrow steep concrete laid 'road' that leads a more rudimentary parking lot of gravel and grass. The peak was only a 400meter walk from here. These points were on the opposing sides of the peak.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>We chose the unpopular route.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_20.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_21.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>It was another 80km to Chiang Kham and we were looking forward to riding a stretch of straight roads. </strong></p><p><strong>That did not happen until we were about 25kms from Chiang Khong.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_22.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_23.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>We found this waterfall and had lunch at the foodstalls nearby.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_24.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>Chiang Kham marks the start of the 1148, a road popularised mostly by word of mouth, and highly featured at Rideasia.net. </strong></p><p><strong>It looks like just another ordinary road as we ride the 1148 out of town, but after about 30kms the road starts to meander up the shallow hilltops. The road quality was good, surface grippy and smooth, unlike most of the Thai roads we encountered where smooth means slippery. The later half of the 1148 runs on a ridge, offering great visibility to the left and right. The corners are lined up so nicely at some points it possible to see 2kms ahead. The vegetation is mostly grassland and shrubs. On this day the temperature was in the low 20s. The skies were clear and with the sun getting lower in the horizon, it was tough riding at a fast clip while wanting to enjoy the sights. We had so much fun riding the road.</strong></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_25.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_26.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_27.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_28.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_29.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_30.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_31.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_38.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_36.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_40.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_41.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_42.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>We reached Nan at 1700, and as we were parking our bikes we met two British riders on two YamahaS10. They were </strong></p><p><strong>thinking we were crazy to ride our GSAs offroad with pillions. We asked them why the S10 and not the Explorer, and they jokingly told me they wanted japanese reliability. They also told me that the Explorer was unavailable then.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>We turned in early, everyone excited at the prospect of entering Laos tomorrow.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nikhuzlan, post: 659640, member: 19744"] [b]N4TION ADVLux 2012/2013. Segment 2 Day 5, Monday 17Dec2012. Doi Tung - Mae Sai - Golden Triangle - Chiang Khong We woke up to a misty, almost foggy morning, in temperatures in the mid teens. The mist was so thick we culd not sees Huay Xai across the Mekong, just about 1 km away. Hisham seems a lot better, although one eye was swollen due to a cut just below the eyelid. David Bailey planned to take Hisham to the clinic again for a change of dressing. Hisham plans to ride to Pua and wait for us at the border. David will accompany him till he leaves. We as a group owe David loads for his kindness and all the assistance rendered. In essence, we are strangers, and David is going out of his way helping people he just met for the first time, and probably never will again. Genuine great guy. As we were preparing our bikes at the car park, we ran into Sebastian, who accompanied us to Hatyai three weeks ago, when we started on this journey. His story is at the start of this thread. He is leaving Chiang Khong for Boten, then into China, leading a pack of 5 4WDs from Malaysia. [/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_01.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_02.jpg[/img] [b]We filled up at the edge of town and left the main road into a village track looking for a shorter way to R1155, then eventually Phu Chi Fa. The road turned fro tarmac to concrete slabs, and later gravel. We passed through acres of cornfield, deserted with not a soul in sight. The mist was still thick.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_03.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_04.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_05.jpg[/img] [b]Eventually the road got worse, suitable only for 400cc MX bikes, and it will not be enjoyable as we had 18 bikes in this group and 5 were with pillion riders as well. We doubled back, wasting a good 1 hour.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_06.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_07.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_08.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_09.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_10.jpg[/img] [b]We found ourselves on tarmac again and followed the 1155 to the turn off that leads to Ban Sai Thong. Within just 1km of leaving 1155 the road turns heavenly.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_11.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_12.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_14.jpg[/img] [b]We stopped for a Group Photo[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_15.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_16.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_17.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_18.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_19.jpg[/img] [b]I didn't know it then but the peak of Phu Chi Fa can be accessed from two sides. The main access point brings vehicles up to a parking lot where there's another 800meters to be covered on foot before the peak. The other one is the less popular one, with narrow steep concrete laid 'road' that leads a more rudimentary parking lot of gravel and grass. The peak was only a 400meter walk from here. These points were on the opposing sides of the peak. We chose the unpopular route.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_20.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_21.jpg[/img] [b]It was another 80km to Chiang Kham and we were looking forward to riding a stretch of straight roads. That did not happen until we were about 25kms from Chiang Khong.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_22.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_23.jpg[/img] [b]We found this waterfall and had lunch at the foodstalls nearby.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_24.jpg[/img] [b]Chiang Kham marks the start of the 1148, a road popularised mostly by word of mouth, and highly featured at Rideasia.net. It looks like just another ordinary road as we ride the 1148 out of town, but after about 30kms the road starts to meander up the shallow hilltops. The road quality was good, surface grippy and smooth, unlike most of the Thai roads we encountered where smooth means slippery. The later half of the 1148 runs on a ridge, offering great visibility to the left and right. The corners are lined up so nicely at some points it possible to see 2kms ahead. The vegetation is mostly grassland and shrubs. On this day the temperature was in the low 20s. The skies were clear and with the sun getting lower in the horizon, it was tough riding at a fast clip while wanting to enjoy the sights. We had so much fun riding the road.[/b] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_25.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_26.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_27.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_28.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_29.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_30.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_31.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_38.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_36.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_40.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_41.jpg[/img] [IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/nikhuzlan/20121213ADVLuxPt3/fb20121217S2D5_42.jpg[/img] [B]We reached Nan at 1700, and as we were parking our bikes we met two British riders on two YamahaS10. They were thinking we were crazy to ride our GSAs offroad with pillions. We asked them why the S10 and not the Explorer, and they jokingly told me they wanted japanese reliability. They also told me that the Explorer was unavailable then. We turned in early, everyone excited at the prospect of entering Laos tomorrow.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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