Ao Nang bicycle tours

Tour 9. Very long tour around the mountains of Khao Thong and Din Daeng, 42,6 km. Heavy with 7,9 km of dirt roads.
Column 1: Waypoint number in the map.
Column 2: Distance from starting point in km.
Column 3: Description.
The starting point for all tours is Ao Nang Road near Ao Nang school at the beginning of Ao Nang soi 3.
Nr km Description
1 0,0 Start at Ao Nang school. Follow the Ao Nang road in a northerly direction.
2 2,9 Ao Nang road ends here. Turn right towards Krabi and Phang Nga. You are on the Noppharat Thara road.
3 4,1 The Noppharat Thara road ends here. Turn left to Phang Nga and Phuket.
4 7,0 In Nong Thale go straight on in the direction of Phang Nga.
5 9,5 After a gas station left, another one right and Khao Klom school on your left side you arrive at the local mosque and a concrete side road to the left. If you have transportation for you and your bicycle to and from this point, it saves you a more or less boring 19 km along the main road. Go straight on about 100 m. Turn right into a narrow concrete road opposite a small mosque.
6 13,3 After 2,3 km the concrete road becomes a dirt road. After a few climbs and descents a steep cliff comes in sight. The dirt road seems to take you right to the cliff face. At a small house the dirt road turns sharply left. You arrive at a new concrete road. Turn right. The concrete road becomes a dirt road again that runs parallel to the cliff with the cliff at your left hand side.
7 16,1 The dirt road ends with a steep rise at an afphalt road. Turn left to the west. 800 m further turn right into the next dirt road. This road circles anti-clockwise around the Khao Thong mountain with gradually better scenery.
8 20,6 After a long and steep descent the dirt road ends at an asphalt road. Turn left. The landscape becomes spectacular.
9 23,4 A junction is announced by a traffic sign that tells you to either turn left or right. Do neither. Go straight on. After 100 m turn left. You pass a buddhist temple at your right hand side. You arrive at a wider road. Turn right into this wider road. (All the signs are in Thai language).
10 24,5 Turn left into the next asphalt road. (If you go straight on, you arrive at a point where the road ends in a mangrove forest. After looking around, just go back and turn into the asphalt road, now to the right).
11 26,4 A wide dirt road to the left starts here at the asphalt road. It is possible to make a minor short cut to Khao Klom by turning left into this dirt road. Route 9 continues over the asphalt road that turns 90° to the right at this point. A few hundred meters further the asphalt road turns 90° left. A concrete road goes straight on here. Keep to the asphalt road.
12 33,1 You arrive at the school of Khao Klom. Turn right on the main road to Nong Thale and Krabi.
1 42,6 Back to the starting point. The same road back from Nr. 5 to Nr. 1.


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