Huai Tueng Thao
Riding around mountains
CHIANG MAI PROVINCE : Navigating the
city’s morass of gentle lanes on cool summer nights can make this one of urban
Thailand’s most enjoyable riding experiences. The route has been chosen from an
interminable range of others for its flexibility to both novices and experts
and its extremely convenient location just outside of Chang Mai, at the crack
between Huai Tueng Thao and Doi Suthep National Park. The route itself makes
for a gloriously amiable shotgun-wedding between the area’s mountainous forests
and lychee fields, and a number of more urbane amenities and activities with
which to fill itinerary and stomach.
A bit further down the road
Starting from one of the bike rental
shops on Sam Lan Road which runs past Wat Phra Sing,leave the city walls from
the west, following the northbound quadrant of the moat up until the intersection
at its comer before turning left down Huai Kaeo Road Pass Chiang Mai’s oldest
shopping mall and keep going until the second large intersection, there take a
northward rightum. 1 km in, you can get off the main road and follow the dirt
path running along the parallel canal, following the signs for the 700-year
Stadium, where you turn left at after 5 km. Huai Tueng Thao, actually a
reservoir, is just a bit further down the road.
But instead of heading straight there,
make for the trails and go behind the Stadium, crossing the dam wall into the
forest. Follow the lovely, blue and red-marked mixed terrain routes that leave
you at Huai Tueng Tueng Thao after 10 km. Otherwise, circling the lake is
fulfilling in itself and either way you can reward yourself at one of the many
cheap and breezy lakeside restaurants before returning to Chiang Mai.
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