Why this ride
A 480 km loop that starts and ends near Bangkok, about 9 h of riding. On the way it passes Nakhon Nayok, Pathum Thani and Kanchanaburi. Much of it runs through woodland.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Nakhon Nayok Waterfall Loop + Kanchanaburi River Kwai Weekend
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 480 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 26
- Journey
- Loop
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bangkok
Bangkok is a city you meet with all your senses at once: the smell of charcoal grills and jasmine garlands, the sound of tuk-tuks and boat engines on the river, the heat that reaches you before you step out of the hotel lobby. About five million people live in the city proper and many more in the sprawl around it, and the Chao Phraya river is the thread that still holds the old centre together. The Grand Palace, Wat Pho with its huge reclining Buddha, and the temples of the old quarter sit along its eastern bank, and ferries cross the water for a few baht.
2. Nakhon Nayok
3. Pathum Thani
4. Kanchanaburi
Two rivers meet at Kanchanaburi. The Khwae Noi and the Khwae Yai join on the edge of town to form the Mae Klong, and almost everything that made this place famous, and infamous, happened along their banks. Most people know it from a film title, but the bridge over the Khwae Yai is only one short piece of the Thailand–Burma Railway that the Japanese army forced through the jungle in 1942 and 1943, using Allied prisoners of war and a far larger number of conscripted Asian labourers. Tens of thousands of them died, and the line earned its other name, the Death Railway.
5. Bangkok
Return visit. Read the place description above.