CHASING THE DRAGON
An enthusiastic traveller from Latvia said to me, “Look at this view,” showing me a photo of Krabi’s mind-blowing limestone region. This Baltic girl and I were sitting on the veranda of a bamboo hut in Koh Phangan. She was harking back to that moment with her arms spread atop Krabi’s Dragon Crest Mountain, 565 metres above sea level. It looked like an incredible place, and I knew of a good route to ride there.
The ‘South Turn’, as Thais call the 120 miles of motorway between the east and west coast of Thailand's southern peninsula, has always appealed to me. Scarcely used by tourists, it seems to stretch forever and has provided me with hours of solitude and freedom of the open
