7 Day North Thailand Motorcycle Tour “Dragon’s Tail”

We’ll pick you up at the airport or your hotel in Chiang Mai. 

After a nice 30 min. drive,  we arrive at our base camp 30 kms north of Chiang Mai city.

Time for a little sightseeing and relax in our resort before the riding starts in the morning.

After checking out the riding gear and the bikes we’ll go for a ride in the mountain area around our home. You’ll get used to the bike and we have the chance to modify small things, like handlebar position e.g. on your bike.

After breakfast we set off up into the mountains again, this time heading southwest out of Chiang Mai. Our first stop is at an elephant camp by a river for a refreshing drink and maybe a snack. A little later we turn off the tarmac and take a trail to a tribal village and then on to our lunch stop at a roadside restaurant in Doi Inthanon National Park. It’s then an enjoyable twisty tarmac ride to the top of Doi Inthanon, Thailand’s highest mountain at 2565 m. On a clear day the views from the top are spectacular. After taking the road back down, we head offroad again for our last section on some great trails, our first river crossing and our comfortable hotel in Mae Cham.

Today is a long day in the saddle, as we ride over 100 km of trails to Pai, a small town famous for it’s hot springs, and for being one of Thailand’s best beauty spots. This is trail riding at it’s purest and most enjoyable, and we have a number of options depending on local conditions and rider ability.

And because the riding around here is so good, we spend today riding around Pai. The town is surrounded by the scenic Huai Nam Dang National Park, which stretches to the Burmese border to the north and west. We take in a visit to the largest cave in southeast Asia, with it’s magnificent stalagmites and stalactites, and have the opportunity to visit some beautiful waterfalls, gorges and mountain trails.

Another great day’s offroading, through Huai Nam Dang National park, where we stay in a resort hotel. Again, we have a choice of routes, all with great riding and beautiful scenery. For example the mountain trails of Doi Chiang Dao

Our last day is another good day’s riding, with several possible routes back to Chiang Mai, depending on your wishes and the weather. The riding follows the Ping and Taeng river valleys with their wooded banks and waterfalls. We arrive back in Chiang Mai in the early afternoon, in time for flights to Bangkok that evening. Or if you want to stay, there’s time for sightseeing, bargain hunting or just relaxing by the pool.