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TownsChiang Mai

เชียงใหม่ · Chiang Mai

Where the bike comes from and where the bag stays.

Chiang Mai City Art and Cultural Center, Chiang Mai, ThailandStefan Fussan · CC BY-SA 3.0
The circuitChiang MaiChiang Mai10810810810810951095109510881263109610750 km
18.7883, 98.9853 · 310 m · The circuit is drawn from OpenStreetMap ways tagged Route 107, 1095 and 108: 598.0 km, of which 6.5% is bridged in a straight line where the route number is not tagged. © OpenStreetMap contributors · relief Open-Meteo / Copernicus DEM

What it is

The start and the finish. Both roads out of it — 107 to the north, 108 to the south — are the loop's two ends.

The long version

Inference — the useful thing to say about Chiang Mai on a page about the loop is what it is for: rental, spares, a proper helmet if the shop's is bad, and the place the suitcase sits for four days.

One measured fact worth carrying out of town: across four burning seasons Chiang Mai's March mean PM2.5 is 37.8 µg/m³, higher than any town on the circuit. The air improves as you leave.

Now

Everything the rest of the circuit does not have: tyres in stock, a dealer for most brands, and a hospital that does not need a transfer.

This is a photo of a monument in Thailand identified by the ID
Tatpong Katanyukul · CC BY-SA 3.0
Map of Chiengmai (Chiang Mai) city, 1931. This is the capital of Chiang Mai province. The top left stamp says: "Royal Insurance Company Limited, 26 October 1931 Liverpool."
Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
View of Chiang Mai City, taken from the top of Doi Suthep Mountain. Image extracted (crop) from Supanut Arunoprayote's original panoramic file. Extracted and edited (crop) under the Creative Commons A
Supanut Arunoprayote · CC BY 4.0

Runs with

Named here by

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedChiang Mai — Wikipedia (en)
text.storyinferencethe riding conclusions are this project's; the geography and history under them are cited
text.todayinference
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there