Day 19 Fri 16/07 - Bang Saphan to Prachuap Khiri Khan

Today Distance: 94.2 km                Total: 1385.5 km
Today Temp : 26 - 35c
Time on Bike : 4hr 50 min
Ave Speed : 19.5 kmh                   Max: 40.5 kmh
Ave Climb : 1%                             Max: 4%
Altitude: 178m                               Max: 117m
Today spending : 401 baht             Total: 6296baht

From Bang Saphan,there is no obvious road on our map along the coast,except for a railway track running parallel.The Highway 4 which we wanted so much to avoid,is on our left,and the sea on the right.Brent using his IPhone GPS for the 1st time,helps to navigate thru' the villages on small cemented roads,with rubber and coconuts trees everywhere,eventually the GPS leads us to the next town of Ban Krut which is on our map.There is no rolling hills but very flat land,with plenty of coconuts piling up like mountain.We reached another bigger town of Thap Sakae where we stop for lunch.Brent discovered that his bike's bottom bracket constantly developing an irritating "tak...tak..tak" sound,suspecting from the bearing or the pedals.He will need to live with that until he can find a decent bike shop able to solve the problem.From Thap Sakae,we had no choice but to ride on the Highway 4, and competing with speeding trucks, We passed the narrowest part of Thailand-10.965km between Myanmar on the west and the sea on the right.A quick downpour lasted about 20 min where we took shelter in a car workshop.Prachuap Khiri Khan our town to stay was 5km off the Highway,lots of accommodations along the beach, We finally settled on Ning's Guesthouse for 300 baht ,which has only 2 rooms managed by Ning and Gary,an Austrian. Again lots of good food here, Tonight's dinner : Deep fried siakap thai style,Fried bitter cock, omelets soup and a bottle of "Chang Beer"

             Brent with the help of GPS,navigate thru' the small road out of Bang Saphan

                          Very nice coastal road not even shown on the map

            From Thap Sakae back on the Highway 4 , double lane on both side with wide shouder

                         Lunch stop at Thap Sakae before the Highway 4

                                  Welcome to the narrowest of Thailand!!

  Just arrived  in Ning's Guesthoust in Prachuap Khiri Khan.Look like I still have plenty of fats to burn

From the 3rd floor balcony view of Prachuap bay to the right

And this view to the left