On the Mae Hong Son Loop

[DavidFL]

On Route 4065, the Mae Chaem - Pang Hin Fon road....

Heading out to Kok Noi, west-south-west of Mae Chaem. (Pondering if this was going to be the right road?)

Hot dry season. Route 1263 Mae Na Chon - Khun Yuam.

Route 4009 the "Sunflower Road' R1263 - Mae U-Khor - Mae Surin Waterfall.

The Sunflower road “today”........

 

[DavidFL]

Roadworks on R1095 Pai -Soppong before it was asphalt...

R1095 from the viewpoint....

Old Soppong, the main street....

Soppong - Ban Tham / Cave Lodge....

R1095 Soppong - Mae Hong Son

 

[Dougal]

Dave,

Many thanks for the info.

Love those photos.

 

[DavidFL]

Ban Farang. Khun Yuam.

 

[DavidFL]

Late 80s. Ob Luang Gorge,

no? National Park Fees, ride right in & park your bike at the viewpoint.

 

[DavidFL]

Pai, the main street, mid-late 1980s.

The Original "Pai in the Sky" restaurant & guesthouse.

sitting roadside, no pavement, & no asphalt road!

 

[DavidFL]

Mae Hong Son city....13 October 1979

 

[kc's]

Awesome!!!!!!!

 

[DavidFL]

Bump for the guy who asked me about the Mae Hong Son loop in the early days.

 

[angkor1]

End of the 80 years the Biker Bible. I keep it until now.

1988

Difficult way...to the long neck village. Absolutely no tourist there.

 

[Ian Bungy]

Incredible how time has moved and everything Developed so Quickly! Fantastic History those Photos!

 

[angkor1]

Pai, the main street, mid-late 1980s.

The Original "Pai in the Sky" restaurant & guesthouse.

In this time we called Pai in the Sky "PAIN IN THE SKY " The rooms a very very low.....

Hello Ian, I found nearly 300 Slides from this time in my garage in Germany. Next week I shood give to shop to put the on a DVD. So many pictures from the end of the 80. Many places, many roads nothing looks like now. ( sorry my english. )

 

[DavidFL]

R1270 the Kong Loi - Lou Lee road

 

[DavidFL]

R1095 Early 1990s

 

[DavidFL]

R1095 Early-Mid 1990s

 

[DavidFL]

Early 1980s. The Soppong Guesthouse

Rooms 25 - 30 baht.

 

[DavidFL]

Cave Lodge once upon a time - late 1980s?

 

[DavidFL]

R1226 the Jaboo - Mae Lana - Pang Kham road. 1989.

 

[DavidFL]

1989. Pang Kham? end of the road on R1226.

 

[cdohrman]

thanks for this Christmas present. Great to look at the pictures and to imagine how it was at those times to drive carborator, air-cooled bikes through the dust, dirt and water. Realised how small Mae Hong Song was at that time, can't imagine how it was to go up to Ban Rak Thai or testing the elephant trail.

 

[Eoin Christie]

Excellent - A great start to 2023 to look through these.
Thank you, David.

 

[DavidFL]

1988 R108 Mae Sarieng - MHS

 

[DavidFL]

1989. Hmong Village on R1263 or R4009.

 

[DavidFL]

1989 R1263 near Khun Yuam I think.

 

[DavidFL]

1989. I think these are on the Pang Kham road R1226.
If not R1226 then R4009, near Mae Surin waterfall.

Mae Surin waterfall 1989.