After having our breakfast, we headed for the Tourism Authority of Thailand office to have our "conquest" certificate and stickers. The certificate basically writes that we have completed 1864 curves on Highway 1095 to the town. And of course we also bought some stickers from the office to paste them on the bike keke. All these for less than 100 bahts.
After that we went on accommodation hunting since the hotel, while comfortable, is still a bit on the high side in terms of price. While on the hotel hunt, we dropped by a T-shirt shop which sell their own Mae Hon Son designs. So we both picked up some of them, made a little chat with the boss and took some photos together. He gave us some directions to a row of guesthouses which suit our kind of budget and we heeded his advise and in no time we found one with a nice view of the lake behind it. So we rushed back to the hotel, packed our stuffs and moved to the new guesthouse accommodation.
An Emo Shot of AKG at our Guesthouse Balcony
Once we dropped our luggage into the room, we rode off to explore the waterfall and cave around the area. First we went to Mae Sua cave, had our lunch there and took a walk in the area. It is only a small cave with small river stream and a pond with a lot of big fishes. So we took some shots over there and then we went on for the waterfall.
We had prepared ourselves to go swim in the waterfall but when we arrived at the PuaSha waterfall, it was a pretty disappointing sight. The place is very rocky and there is no spot we can dip ourselves into the water as the waterfall is not really that spectacular also. It could be due to the dry season in North Thailand I guess. Nevertheless, we took some photos and moved on to explore another place where we happened to see the signboard on our way to the waterfall: Pang Tong Palace.
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The Pang Tong Palace is about a couple of clicks away from the waterfall but we didn't expect to be riding up steep mountain road, not when we are riding with only sunglasses and casual wear. Since we had gone thru countless mountain road curves for the whole day yesterday, today's road don't look so bad after all. There is one part of the road which do not allow us to screw up have an elevation angle of at least 60deg at a 180deg turn. As I just learnt the word from Hilary and decide to use it to describe that road....shu jio makh makh!
One of the many shots I took while riding back to Mae Hon Son.
The Pang Tong Palace is basically a plot of land where the locals planted various vegetations and reared deers or animals of similar family. Interesting animals, they just stared at us with a querying look. We took a couple of shots at them and we headed back.
Back in town, we parked our bikes and took a rest at the guesthouse balcony. There, with AngKuGuay's highly sociable personality, we got to know an American named Brad who happened to be travelling around Thailand and the nearby regions later on. So we just sat there, chatting away and watching the sun setting behind the mountains, taking photos of that beautiful scenery, and ended up having dinner at the night market nearby. We shared views on world politics, history of Singapore, and many other subjects. Great chatty guy.
The Sunset of Mae Hon Son
So now we get everything packed up so that we can load up the bike immediately. We will be leaving the town at 7am (earliest move off time so far) to travel all the way to the border town of Mae Sot or Tak if time allows. That will be a long ride tomorrow.
In general, Mae Hon Son is a very peaceful town untainted by nightspots. The scenery and the people there are simply wonderful. Definitely a good place just to get away from the busy city life and just lay back to enjoy the serenity of this wonderful town.
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