The road tracklog
From Aranya Prathet to Prachuap Khiri Khan
From 25/02 to 07/03/2008

Finally the 25/02 I left the border town of Aranya Prathet in all quietude having a boat to load my truck to Europe. The weather was gloomy, covered sky, temperature of +32°C and moisture of 70%, in all nothing amusing good to do a lot of mileage. I had decided to take the coastal road from Bang Pakong up to Samut Prakarn hoping to find a bivouac at the seashore of the Gulf of Siam in the south of Bangkok. Alas average altitude was from - 1,45 meter to +3,48 meters. The ground was divided into pieces of rice plantation without access to the littoral. I continued the road up to Samut Sakhon where I can be able to take again the bivouac of the outward journey. On the way I ran along a very huge three-headed pachyderm on the roof of the Elephant museum with in background a splendid bridge which spans the mouth of Chao Praya river.

 
 
Bridge 
mouth of  Chao Praya River 
the 25/02/2008 

After a two-day stop at Hat Chao Samran I left on February 28 about 09:00 and I stopped in Hua Hin to read my mailbox, to lunch and to do shopping for the four future days which I projected to spend at seashore. On the way I took some pictures of a shrimp breeding with a system of oxygenation of water by mills moved by an engine of cultivator. Going along the littoral I establish my bivouac at Pak Nam Pran Beach known of homecar-drivers.
Since my departure from Aranya Prathet I was in the new situation to manage the plethora of time instead of the shortage, the boat was scheduled on April 6^th. Moreover it remains to clarify some points before entering Singapore requesting an access to Internet to have conversation with the forwarding agent and the carrier.

 

Hat Chao Samrant 
le 26/02/02/2008 
 

 
 
 
Shrimp breeding 
the 28/02/2008 

 

Shrimp breeding 
the 28/02/2008 

I remained from February 28 to March 6 at Pak Nam Pran Beach of fine sand and several kilometres long with hotels whose environment is primarily family without crowded. I was invited by Th. Percevault, consultant of a company of land seismic equipment for oil research, married to an Inhabitant of Thailand who manages his villas for rent.
During this stay I clarified my entry Singapore with the help of the forwarding agent.

 
 
 
Pak Nam Pran Beach 
the 06/03/2008 

The following weeks I headed up towards the border of Thailand and Malaysia to cross at the latest on Mars 11.