The roads at Ao Por has recently gotten a facelift. Part of the road from Ban Bang Rong has now street lights and more is being installed.
Currently new pavement has been set. The pavement work started from northern part, next to Supalai resort and spa and eventually covered the who Ao Por. Now, parts of the road from Ao Por to Bang Rong is newly paved. The rest will follow soon.
I was quite surprised how well the roadsworks in Thailand were made. My first thought was that it's custom to simply lay another layer of asphalt on top of the existing one. That was not the case! The roads were cut and filled with sand, before paved once again.
These holes are approximately 30x30 cm (1 sqf) area. In Ao Por case, these holes appeared on the road about 3 months before the road works started.
These are some heavy duty machines, but move fairly fast. Several meters per minute.
Cutting blades of the road surface cutter
Road cutting vehicle then exports sand as it goes by
The exported sand is then packed by various heavy machinery
Meanwhile, the packing continues
After all this, water is used to further help the to pack the new road surface.
The final step - the new asphalt
Quality control of the new pavement
This is how the new asphalt looks like, when just resurfaced
The final touch, road paintings
Extra: Taking a well deserved break at Ao Por viewpoint.