A right turn from the Village and your back on 1268 about three klms and your at the beautiful Faukland resort
This was the least expensive place we stayed a whopping 240 Baht a night. Somehitng like camping without having to put up a tent. The do in fact have a hot shower located in the center of the resort. No air but that would simply not be be needed this time of year.
The cabins do have electricity and that was need for the heating pad. Actually it was very beautful and I enjoyed it only down side a Thai toilet, if you have screwed discs in your back as I do pass on this one.
On the good side it's about 8 inches higher then the floor, which meant we did have to hire a moving crew to get me off the darn thing.
No Kitchen facilities, but they will pick up food for you, we fell for that one a simple dinner of chiken rice and mixed veagetable was 1K baht. Had we know that, we could ridden back three Klms and purchased the same thing for under 300 baht. But the food was good.
It is quiet except or traffic noise from time to time on the highway. We got our first taste of cold and a very wet fog there. I had to put up my visor and take off my glasses to ride the next morning until around 0930 hours. There was another resort right next to ours but I doubt it would have been any different.
We had travled 220 Klms from Udon at this point. On the entire trip I never spent more 240 Baht per day for fuel since we were not riding far each day.
Lodging and food exceeded the gas cost everyday on the trip.
All and all it was a great first day, the next time I will skip 1295 and go up to Dan Sai spend the night there and continue on to Nan the next day. Better lodging available and it would probably add less the 100 Klms on the second day ride.
I really had to watch things because of the back the resort is not reommended for the bad back group like sleeping on concrere. But it was a neat esperience
One of the reasons I have'n t started the report yet was recovering with the back form the ride so I will do them one day at a time as I hold up to do them.
Day 2 Chapter 2 coming soon
