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RIDE YOUR STORY - RIDING AROUND THAILAND DAY 7

Northeast Thailand February 2nd to 16th 2024 10 BIKES MAX + 1 VAN ( 2 PERSONS) ALL DETAILS HERE  Day 7 Mukdahan to Nakon Phanom 291kms 4:45 of actual riding The best restaurants are the ones who leave their food to say who they are and say no more. You have to eat. But you don't have to eat garbage all the time. And sometimes to eat some of the best food on the planet you have to go a little further off the beaten track to find it. Today we will have lunch at a place that; despite it being in a run down wooden building over 100 years old in an out of the way location that is in an out of the way town in an out of the way part of Thailand,has reached almost mythical status amongst folks all over Northern Thailand. Mouths will gape, eyes will peer from the kitchen when we roll up and camera phones will be coming out with shy requests for selfies as they take in the sight and shock of 12 foreign faces dismounting from big motorbikes and walking in. Despite their fame among

RIDE YOUR STORY - RIDING AROUND THAILAND DAY 6

Northeast Thailand February 2nd to 16th 2024 10 BIKES MAX + 1 VAN ( 2 PERSONS) ALL DETAILS HERE day 6 UBON RATCHATHANI TO MUKDAHAN 278KMS 4:42HRS of riding Today we head West for a while till we get to the confluence of the Mun and mighty Mekong rivers to the aptly named two colour river viewpoint. After that stop we then head North and will run up the far Eastern Side of Thailand for most of the day with the Mekong River to our right and Laos on the other side of it. Beautiful, relaxed laid back day of riding where the traffic will be light, the weather perfect, the roads great and the scenery spectacular. You can even go for a swim in the Mekong if you want. Another thing ticked off your bucket list. Our hotel for tonight is right in the middle of the famous large and sprawling riverside IndoChina market. Here you can buy just about anything and everything you could possibly imagine, want or need. A perfect place to pick up some souvenirs or gifts at bargain basement prices or just s

RIDE YOUR STORY - RIDING AROUND THAILAND - DAY 5

Northeast Thailand February 2nd to 16th 2024 10 BIKES MAX + 1 VAN ( 2 PERSONS) ALL DETAILS HERE DAY 5 KHON KAEN TO UBON RATCHATHANI 310KMS 4:36 HRS ACTUAL RIDING “And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies.” ― Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line, Journey to the End of the Night Today we ride further South East and along the way will stop at what must be one of the most bizarre; if not the most bizarre, temple complexes in the whole of The Kingdom.  Its Manga mixed with Dali and a whole swathe of 1960s psychedelic drugs thrown into a pot and then heated by alternative reality before being drunk at blood temperature in one gulp. The best way to understand this place is to just accept what appears in front of you as you wander around and take it all in as one overall surreal experience. There are good karma things, baaaddddd deeds things, dinosaurs next