↻ Clockwise
A half-day that leaves the afternoon for Tham Lot.
LegsPai to Soppong
ปาย – สบป่อง
Thirty-seven kilometres, a hundred and thirty-nine curves, and a cave at the end.
37km
197curves
25hairpins
1–1.5hours
The route
↺ Counter-clockwise
The run into Pai, and an easy end to a hard day.
Route 1095
6.96curves per kilometre — its hardest two kilometres
What it is
Short. Out of the Pai basin, up, and into limestone country.
The long version
Inference — measured off OSM this section carries 139 curves in 36.7 kilometres, 3.87 a kilometre. It is the easiest of the three 1095 sections by that measure, and the shortest by a long way.
Which makes it the leg to use. A day that runs Pai to Soppong only is a half day with the caves in it; a day that runs Pai to Mae Hong Son is a full one that ends with the hardest descent of the northern leg. Inference — people who are tired when they reach Mae Hong Son usually made that choice without noticing it was one.
What it asks of you
| Smallest sensible bike | Automatic scooter, 110–160cc |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Anyone with a licence |
| Pillion | Fine |
The gentlest stretch of Route 1095.
Runs with
- townSoppong — The town at the end.
- stopTham Lot — The reason to stop short.
- legSoppong to Mae Hong Son — The hard one, next.
Named here by
- legChiang Mai to Pai — The next one, clockwise.
- townPai — The way on.
- townSoppong — The way in.
- stopTham Lot — The half-day that buys you the time for it.
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
- Curve and distance measurements off the OSM polyline — This project
- Pang Mapha 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