Day 7 - 16th September 2010

Day 7, was the day after. The adrenalin drain was complete, after a night of blissful sleep. The morning started with a good breakfast at a nearby hotel & some time spent looking for phones to make calls. For those of you who intend to do road trips here remember that most hotels (budget or otherwise) don't have IDD phone call facilities !

You need to get an IDD card and a IDD phone card. The IDD phone card can be used only on IDD Public phones (the yellow ones). Another thing you'd want to remember is that all messages that appear on these public (filthy) phones are in Thai !!!

We drove to a spare part shop in town and bought an oil filter and engine oil. The shop keeper told us that there is a mechanic shop nearby that would change the oil for us.

We spent a total of 2 hours at the mechanic shop for the oil to be changed, before we set on our way.

The target was Nakhon Sawan, a town some 400 km's from Chiang Mai. We decide to push on back as Chiang Mai was wet and rainy. There wasn't much we could do as we were also running out of time.

After about 7 hours of driving we reached Nakhon Sawan at about 10pm. We managed to find  hotel, and all we wanted to do was to sleep off. In preparation of tomorrow's push to Cha am.

Sleep came easy, we were just too damn tired.

Pics from Day 7

Oil Change being done

A good wash, before we set out home

Bridge at Tak

Chao Phrya river crossing at Tak

Leaving Tak for Nakhon Sawan