Today Temp : 28 - 36c
Time on Bike : 3 hr 54 min
Ave Speed : 17.4 kmh Max: 60.0 kmh
Ave Climb : 3% max : 11%
Trip Altitude: 433m Max:175 m
Today Spending : 598 baht Total: 3326 baht
The weather continues to be hot and sunny as we started at 8 am. Half an hour delayed due to Brent front tire was flat b'cos of micro leaks as he already suspected it from yesterday.Today we avoided the much busier Highway 4 and took the more scenic route 4090 and this will lead us all the way to Takua Pa. There are more greens and trees as we moved further north away from the more tourist town of Krabi and Phang Nga, that gave us some shade from the heat. The rolling hills are not that difficult for me as I usually used my lightest gear,slowly but steadly overcome them.But Brent was really strong on the hills and climb better with his trailer, when I reaches the top,he was already over a distance, but if the downhill is long, the recumbent will soon overtake him.Takua Pa was even smaller than all the towns that we had stayed. A bus station for stopover long distance express bus from Phuket to Ranong or even Bangkok,a market,a police station and 2 rows of scattered shophouses.We checked in the only hotel named " Extra Hotel" which I told Brent the more suitable named -" Less Hotel" , a hotel with big building but every corner is empty ,there is no maintainence ,we saw the manager and staff were busy repairing a faulty old fan. We pay 400 baht that don't even had hot water to supply.The next morning I saw quite a few trucks at the carpark. Walked around town and saw only one internet with only one computer in the shop serving 100% Arabian coffee. Wasted 70 baht for 1.5h in that always hang-up computer.
Beautiful temple on the way out
Our next stay at Takua Pa
The long straight down...
And then the rolling up...
1 comment:
Enjoy reading about your journey. Good to know that you have kept your sense of humour after 1000km! Be safe.
Pauline
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