↻ Clockwise
The last long haul before the four-lane run home.
LegsMae Sariang to Hot
แม่สะเรียง – ฮอด
The long one. A hundred and fifty kilometres of mountain road and almost nothing on it.
150km
3hours
60km fuel gap
The route
↺ Counter-clockwise
Day one, and long. This is the leg that finds the rental bike's faults.
Route 108
7.38curves per kilometre — its hardest two kilometres
What it is
The emptiest stretch of the circuit. Sealed, two lanes, steep hillsides, few villages, and a national park in the middle.
The long version
The Thai highway article puts it plainly: from Hot the road runs along steep hills all the way to Mae Sariang. Between the two there is Op Luang, a gorge the Chaem river cut, and not a great deal else with a name.
Inference — the planning points are fuel and heat. This is the longest gap between towns of any size on the circuit, it is low and hot at the eastern end, and it is where a day that started late finishes in the dark. Counter-clockwise it is day one and it is a very long day one; clockwise it is the last real leg and it is the one that gets rushed.
What it asks of you
| Smallest sensible bike | Automatic scooter, 110–160cc |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | You have ridden hills before |
| Pillion | Think about it |
Long rather than difficult. Fill up in Mae Sariang, not after it.
Nothing here punishes luggage; the distance punishes everything.
Runs with
- stopOp Luang — The gorge in the middle of it.
- townHot — The town at the eastern end.
- hazardRiding after dark — What this leg turns into if you start late.
- eventThe hot season — The eastern end is the hottest riding of the circuit.
Named here by
- townHot — The long way in.
- townMae Sariang — The long eastern day.
- stopMae Sam Laep and the Salween — The long leg this is worth rearranging.
- stopOp Luang — The long leg it breaks.
- watWat Jong Soong — The leg that needs a reason to stop.
- eventThe hot season — The hottest leg on the circuit.
- termGasohol 91 and 95 — The longest gap on the loop.
- storyClockwise or counter-clockwise — The long forgiving day that counter-clockwise puts first.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | inference | leg description is this project's, built on the measured geometry and the cited road articles | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- ทางหลวงแผ่นดินหมายเลข 108 — Wikipedia (th)
- Op Luang National Park — Wikipedia (en)
- Hot district — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there