An amazing experience in the north of Thailand, highly recommended with a scooter, The Mae Hong Son loop refers to a road going from Chiang Mai to Pai to Mae Hong Son to Mae Sariang to Chiang Mai. The ride between each of these points in ~4-6 hours and there are a lot of turns worth taking and stops worth making.
As a tribute to leaving the north of Thailand, we rented out a scooter and went out to breath the wonderfully green landscapes of the area. That was our way to greet 2013. Enjoy the pictures :)
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| Lake temple in Mae Hong Son |
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| Common view from the road |
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| Pseudo-traditional dresses meant for Thai tourist |
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| Noodles in the Chinese village near the Burmese border - Ban Rak Thai |
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| Ban Rak Thai (love Thai village) - interesting name for this Chinese immigrants village close to the Myanmar border. Aside from the beautiful road towards it, the village itself has spectacular natural surroundings. |
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| Between Mae Hong Son and Ban Rak Thai |
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| Morning mist on a Mae Hong Son stupa |
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| The Buddha in mist, Mae Hong Son |
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| The sun has risen on the Buddha, Mae Hong Son |
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| Riiiice fields for-ever |
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| Buddhist hen in a Mae Hong Son temple |
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| Meditative spider in Mae Hong Son |
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| Too many birds fly too fast for my lens, this one was likely resting |
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| Missed the yellow flower carpets so well known in the area but flowers abound |
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| Trees, houses, Thailand |
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| Flower power |
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| Stinky hot springs, you can cook eggs there if you're (unfortunately) not yet vegan |
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| Taken from some horror movie set... or just next to the hot sptring |
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| Life is happy, but happier with bubbles |
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| Mae Sariang, from our room on the river bank |
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| Pretending to think about something of great importance |
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| Pretending to work on Colnect ;) |
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| Frognector chillin' with the Buddha |
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| "Take me back to that boat on a river" |
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| "Silence is golden golden" |
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| On the way to Thailand's highest peak |
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| Dragon stairs or a fun park slide? |
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| Colnect's BD manager with Colnect's mascots on the top of Thailand's highest peak |
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| Family & beer in Mae Sariang. Notice the amazing ice solution on these glasses? Free the glass when half full of water. Brilliant! |
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| Spiderman was ...not... here |
Did you actually make it all the way here? How many of these pictures were worth a whole click and few seconds of your valuable time? I hope a few. I hope you like spiders, beer and chickens. North of Thailand is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Always love catching up, thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteBest LOOP Ever! Yay! Everything was beautiful and vroom vroom vroooom! And everything is strangely colorful, the bird, the hot spring, the spider, even the spiders web seems to be less transparent.
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