Thursday, October 27, 2005
10/27/2005 10:10:00 AM

"SOAR"ing In Chiangmai

posted by Francis Ho



By the time some of you are reading this, we would most likely be S.O.A.R (Some Where On A River) on the Mae Ping River in Chiangmai, Northern Thailand ...




We had been fretting over this trip the past month – it was a toss-up between the Calamian Islands in the Philippines. After a frantic exchange of emails between Huey in Spore and me here and phone calls with Miriam; we settled on Chiangmai. We would be flying up from Kuching to JB and would meet up with Huey and JunPing at Spore’s Changi Airport where we will all be flying via Tiger Airways direct to Chiangmai.
Here's hoping for daily beautiful weather and blue skies like this on our Chiangmai Expedition! And I hope that my just-healed backache don't play up!

Date: 28th October to 4th November 2005

Put in / Take Out: Mae Ping River

For Aerial Photo of River Route see http://www.kayakasia.org/namping/namping.html

Distance: Approximately 238 kms.

Kayakers:

  • Huey (Expedition Leader) on red Feathercraft Java (unless he decides to change to his KLight at the last minute)
  • Francis on yellow Folbot Cooper
  • Miriam on red Folbot Kodiak
  • JunPing on teal Nautiraid Raid

Watch out for my posting(s) after the Trip!

Meanwhile keep us in your Thoughts and Wish Us Well! Thank You!

Destination

Distance to

Total Distance

1) Chiang Mai City Center



2) Lamphun



3) Pa Sang

30km


4) Tha Sala

25km

55km

5) Hot

30km

85km

6) Wang Lung

15km

100km

7) Doi Tao

20km

120km

8) Start of narrow Mae Ping River

18km

138km

9) End of Narrow Mae Ping River

16km

154km

10) Mae Ping River splits

24km

178km

11) End at Ngao

60km

238km

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  At Thursday, 27 October, 2005 Blogger Francis Ho said:

It is sad to note that just as I was leaving home after lunch; the trucks are back. I dread to think how the place would look like after my week-long trip. These people have absolutely no conscience or shame - as I believe that they were given this blog address. SO they knew exactly how the neighbours feel about what they are doing.
FH2o

  At Thursday, 27 October, 2005 Blogger Robin CHAN said:

Have a great trip, Francis!!!

And dun worry abt the moron, the termites will eat up their house first.

Besides, there is nothing much u can do, but stare at them, which makes your BP shoots up.

I will also be away for 9 days!

  At Tuesday, 01 November, 2005 Anonymous Anonymous said:

DON'T WORRY THEY'RE ONLY BACK TO FILL IN SOME ROCK. SO FAR HAVE BEEN QUIET.

BEST ON YR TRIP.

WALLY (YOUR NEIGHBOUR)


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