StopsMae Sam Laep and the Salween
แม่สามแลบ และแม่น้ำสาละวิน
A river wide enough to be a border, a wooden longtail, and Myanmar on the far bank.
Saosukham · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
A river village west of Mae Sariang at the end of a side road, on the Salween where it forms the frontier.
The long version
The Salween rises in Tibet and runs some two and a half thousand kilometres to the Andaman Sea, and for a long stretch of its lower course it is the line between Thailand and Myanmar. At Mae Sam Laep you are standing on that line.
Inference — this is the best detour on the southern leg and almost nobody takes it, because the long Mae Sariang day already feels long. It is worth rearranging the day for: a wide brown river, forest on both banks, longtail boats loading rice and people, and a far bank that is a different country with no bridge to it.
The road in is a side road off Route 108 and it descends steeply to the water. Inference — go in the morning, when the boats are working, and eat at the river.
Not on this disk: current boat services, prices, or whether any particular trip is running. The border is a live administrative thing and what is possible there changes.
Runs with
- townMae Sariang — The town the road leaves from.
- legMae Sariang to Hot — The long leg this is worth rearranging.
- personThe Karen — Whose river country this is on both banks.
- storyHow old is this ride — The old road to Burma crossed near here.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Salween River — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Salween River — Wikipedia (en)
- Mae Sariang district — Wikipedia (en)
- แม่น้ำสาละวิน — Wikipedia (th)
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