Messing around west of Chiang Dao

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Some great weather and an overnight free for some friends, up to Chiang Dao we go.

North on R 107 to the Chiang Dao by-pass, the Chiang Dao Nest was fully booked, Mally's next door still had 5 rooms for us, unbelievable on New Years Day.

Premium high season, 750 bht, not bad at all

 

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Sunset drinks at The Nest, & the mountain starts to perform a great light show

& gets better before the sun goes completely asleep

 

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Dinner at The Nest, expensive but always fantastic

& while talking, a reminder about how great R 3232 west of Chiang Dao is & it's all concrete

 

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The 275 Bht, fat boy breakfast at The Nest, enough to keep you going all day with it's home made bread

Then off to explore R 3232 west of Chiang Dao


Jim's new Harley V-Rod Muscle (the Porsche designed model, just assembled and its first real run - 160 hp!)

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We took the 3232 as far west as we could, asking the locals along the way if the road had been graded to Pai or Wiang Haeng, they said both ways were still dirt trails

A very cool bungalow guest house at the western end of R 3232

Phone number

A collection of spirit houses along the way

 

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This was the first test ride for Jim's V-Rod Muscle, he discovered that in right hand turns, the exhaust manifold hits with very little lean angle

 

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With the sun now headed over to the west, great views of the Doi Chiang Dao mountain as we head back east along R 3232

A great couple of days out & only 70km from Chiang Mai