Overnite at the Royal Princess Hotel. Sleep like a log!Resting the engine on this second day ; we took boat ride to Kawthaung in 45 mins to do Myamnar overland.
MYANMAR FROM SEA VIEW
At Myammar immigration post, Bangchik paid USD10 for passport clearance. Kawthung township at background.
Syah Badang searching for USD to pay at toll. White building is the one and the only Kawthaung Hotel.Before reach at mainland,have to stop at Thai army checkpoint(island)and Myanmar army checkpoint.
Kawthaung is more or less a cowboy town. We 're greeted by hungry children begging for money but it's just for a while. Suddenly all the hanky panky went quiet when army troop took charge. Not knowing what's happenig, we 're then ushered to a road dance show. Followed by that was a roar of platuns of army escorting a big someone patrolling the road. Nasib baik sempat sembunyi camera, kalau tak nahas kena rampas dek junta! Visiting this town was limited to 2 hours, nothing much can be done but only to the first attaction here - germstone. Burning the baht, everyone took home good a grade jade.
Back to Siam mainland, checked out and headed to Petchaburi through the hilly Lang Suan. Raining. Shah skidded over the wet oily road. Just a minor bruise and a little breaking the right firing of the Blackbird! He's not alone though. 2 Siamese pick-up vannet was then seen went off road, masuk gaung jugak! Kah kah kah!
Riding to Petchaburi took about 586 km. We started late as to wait for bikers back from their shop till drop trip from Kawthaung. Like it or not, need to hit Petchaburi before nightfall yet has to tolerate timing for re-fuelling both the tank and the tummy. Lucky enough the experienced pace maker PakMan had marked through his earlier trips of his favorite foodstall along the highway that served yummy food. Have to move quickly after meal as the Petchaburi ia still far away.Stop by road side at ISTHMUS OF KRA for refreshment(nice blended coffee).
Yours truely who lead second group is now asked by PakMan to move first as one of my team member Haji Taki having short vision at night. With Haji Taki riding behind me , I will be waiting at the next gas station for grouping then all of us will then riding together to downtown Petchaburi. The plan is the plan...parked by the road side and waiting...saw Haji Taki heading forward. Hah, here comes the thrill. As the second group arrived, Pak Man took back leading bikers to hotel and I dashed up tracking Haji Taki. I was worry of him with his poor sight at night kept searching him for more than 50 km. Had no choice as it was at midnight, I returned to hotel with worn out mind and body and konged-out mobile phone just to find that Haji Taki is already in his la la land...snoring...Me?ha ha ha
GOOD NIGHT PETCHABURI(with a pager vibrating around my stomach)
