TownsMae Sariang

แม่สะเรียง · Mae Sariang

The southern base, on the Yuam river, with almost nobody in it.

18.1614, 97.9308 · 220 m · The circuit is drawn from OpenStreetMap ways tagged Route 107, 1095 and 108: 598.0 km, of which 6.5% is bridged in a straight line where the route number is not tagged. © OpenStreetMap contributors · relief Open-Meteo / Copernicus DEM

What it is

The largest town on the southern leg and the natural overnight between Mae Hong Son and Chiang Mai. Teak-era shophouses, Burmese-style wats, and a river.

The long version

Mae Sariang district reaches west to the Salween, which is the border, and the road on to Mae Sam Laep is the way to see it.

Inference — the reason to give Mae Sariang a night rather than treating it as a lunch stop is arithmetic. Mae Hong Son to Chiang Mai in one day by Route 108 is a very long day on a mountain road; broken at Mae Sariang it is two comfortable ones. Riders on a tight schedule push through and arrive after dark, which is the single most avoidable mistake on this circuit.

Now

Quiet, cheap, and the last town of any size before the long empty run north or the long fast run east.

A three-story school building named "Sukhumbandhunirmit" — Angkun-ane · CC BY-SA 4.0

The first group of Mathayom students in Mae Sariang Boripat Suksa school in 1940 — Mae Sariang Boripat Suksa school, scanned and enhancement edits by นายภูมิ สินทรัพย์ · CC BY-SA 4.0

Taken at night, this is a picture of street in Mae Sariang, decorated with Lanna lantern — Angkun-ane · CC BY-SA 4.0

Runs with

legMae Sariang to Hot — The long eastern day.
legKhun Yuam to Mae Sariang — The way in from the north.
roadRoute 108 — The road it sits on.

Named here by

legKhun Yuam to Mae Sariang — The town at the end.
roadRoute 108 — The town that breaks the long half in two.
stopMae Sam Laep and the Salween — The town the road leaves from.
watWat Jong Soong — The town it is in.
dishKanom jeen nam ngiao — Deep in the country it belongs to.
stayThe teak shophouse — The quieter town to try it in.
storyHow old is this ride — Where the old road crossed to Burma.

Where each claim comes from

Field	Tier	Source	Note
default	cited	Mae Sariang district — Wikipedia (en)
text.story	inference		the riding conclusions are this project's; the geography and history under them are cited
text.today	inference
text_th	inference		written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

Mae Sariang district — Wikipedia (en)
Salween River — Wikipedia (en)
Mae Hong Son province — 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