Koh Chang, Thailand Travel Blogs

Tales from tropical wonderland
Nov 10, 2003 (4 photos)

... great food. On Koh Chang we stayed in bungalows (Sang Arun Bungalows) right on the beach next door to Phil and Wendy's. Koh Chang didn't seem that touristy compared to other Thai beachy places - it had bars and cafes showing movies but was still fairly ...

Beach Time
Jan 17, 2005 (6 photos)

Greetings, We are enjoying beach time for about a week here and then another week farther south. Koh Chang is on the eastern side of Thailands long peninsula, facing west into the sunsets. I know that explanation is confusing so check the map closely. ...

Island time
Nov 28, 2008 (3 photos)

... was filling up rapidly with hundreds of people arriving to take their flights but not being able to. Our first stop to sanity was Koh Chang. We booked a V.I.P bus and took the 6 hour (with 3 stops on the way!) journey to Trat right next to the border ...

I'm a non-entity, get me out of here!
May 8, 2003 (4 photos)

... a taxi over to the Eastern Bus Terminal, where we were just in time to make the bus to Trat - the closest mainland town to Koh Chang. The trip was 5 1/2 hours in which time, I read slept, and stared at strange people. It is fun staring out the Thai people. ...

Duuu duuu duuu do datamm....
Jan 4, 2009 (10 photos)

... schon im Fruehling 08 wurde man ueberall mit deren Musik beschallert (sogar in Laos). Also bin ich natuerlich, nachdem ich auf Koh Chang eingecheckt hatte, mit ins Partyboot gestiegen, dass an diesem Tag extra von Chang nach Phayam fuhr - (Die Rueckfahrt ...

Thailand!
Jul 9, 2007

... sites around the city including the Grand Palace and the giant golden buddha. The next day we were up early to get the bus to Koh Chang, an island south east of Bangkok. It was a long journey but the bus was air conditioned and we met a lovely Irish ...

Maybe I Was A Little Hasty
Jul 31, 2007

OK, maybe I was a little hasty, but I am still sick, which sucks.  And its been raining buckets since last night.  I screwed up and booked the motorcycle for three days when I'm actually here for four, so I had to drive the thing back to the ...

Tank Surfing
Apr 2, 2006

Jay and I have decided to plunge in and get scuba certified. Now's the part of the lessons that northern states do in the pool. We fit the gear and clumsily walk with our flippers and tanks across the beach like a flock of duck-frogs. The water is warm ...

A Letter to a Friend
Apr 4, 2007

Dear Friend, I imagine by now you have probably realized that the new car, the new job and the new partner that you thought were going to make you so happy and your life so full, have not turned out the way you had hoped. Perhaps these things made you ...

My birthday and Koh Chang
May 6, 2007 (24 photos)

... Baan Kwan Chang Camp.  This is an elephant camp and conservation park.  Much of the interior of Koh Chang remains preserved as a national park/forest which has limited its tourism development (thankfully!).  I had some mixed feelings ...

Under the Current
Apr 3, 2006 (3 photos)

The three of us get up for the last series of scuba dives. Jay's dad is already certified, but he's going for the pleasure of it. We board the same boat with a crew of friendly Germans and New Zealanders. I talk about tattoos and different regional ...

Its OK to Not Accept Things That You Can Change!
Apr 2, 2007 (6 photos)

        I am now laughing at myself for giving Lonely Beach beach a chance. I think I was just trying to be optimistic when I wrote it - although I did want to spend another day in touch.  The day went by ...

The Beach!
Mar 21, 2009 (39 photos)

... ferry so I went with that instead.  The transfer was pretty long and after leaving Bangkok at 9am the ferry didnt land at Koh Chang until 4.30pm. From here we had to get a shared taxi down to Lonely beach where I had booked to stay at the sunflower ...

Rain, Rain Rain
May 6, 2008 (10 photos)

... all the time. I think we caught the tail end of the cyclone that hit Burma. We actually enjoyed our time in Koh Chang, a very relaxed Island where we recuperated and relaxed in our room after the hectic schedule we had been following. We visited a ...

The Isle of Elephants
Oct 4, 2008 (8 photos)

... on the ferry ride as well. This is a good thing to me, but probably not a very good thing for the tourism industry. Koh Chang is a beautiful mountainous island off the east coast of Thailand. We spent 8 nights there, most of which were spent relaxing by ...

Eastern Thailand Beaches-Pattaya Koh Chang Is
Jan 14, 2006 (14 photos)

... thailand!! we stopped in pattaya to see one of kc's friends, bethany. and then we kept on truckin' to the south east to koh chang. one of the larger islands where we stayed BEACHFRONT, ate fresh fish and prawns, rented a motobike (and drove on the left - ...

Hideaway
Aug 2, 2008 (11 photos)

Am Ende haben wir den perfekten Platz fuer uns gefunden: Eine Huette dirket am Meer, mit einer Haengematte und einem Buecherregal : ) Hier steht die Zeit still, mitten in einer Steinwuesste, die im laufe des Tages vom Meer zurueckerobert wird, das ...

Koh Chang - 15th to 17th March
Mar 16, 2007 (4 photos)

Few days R & R on Koh Chang - Thursday spent swimming, reading etc...not much to report!   By Friday we were already getting restless feet so decided to hire a car - well the nearest thing, a pick up truck, from a little tour shop just outside ...

Holiday in Cambodia
Apr 19, 2007

... I am intrigued by Cambodia and want to see more, or unless I want to relax again on a quiet beach, I will probably return to Thailand fairly quickly. I'm still not really in the mood to travel but once I am on the move that might change. Thus, as always, ...

Another day in the sunshine
May 20, 2007

... whether to eat, play pool or jus link up.. every night we played killer pool and i of course dominated everytime!  The Koh Chang crew had a family dinner at the local indian restuarant (i think it was the only one to be honest) We had a beautiful ...

Beach, finally!
Feb 29, 2008 (13 photos)

Joepie! Strand eindelijk! Eergisteren aangekomen op het tweede grootste eiland van Thailand, dicht bij de grens van Cambodia. We zitten op Lonely Beach, ni echt lonely (vandaag al nen half moon party met alle nodige vuurspektakels en boenk boenk muziek), ...

Koh Chang
Nov 14, 2008 (10 photos)

Before I left for Koh Chang, the only thing I knew was that it is an island off the northeastern coast of Thailand. The trip from Bangkok was supposed to take about 5 hours, so I was told, but the whole journey ended up taking about 10 hours, including a ...

Koh chang
Mar 9, 2006 (10 photos)

Hey, we have arrived in koh chang, its absoloute paradise, we got here by boat and we had to sit at the front and we got sooooaaked cos it was raining, then we had an hour + 30 mins ride holding on to the back of a taxi through winding hillside roads, very ...

God bless the man who invented hammocks
Apr 5, 2007 (10 photos)

... and am now attempting to develop bedsores from a hammock on an island just off the east coast of the gulf of Thailand. I guess the fact that I've completely abandoned the idea of traveling overland to New Zealand and opted instead to spend a few ...

Koh Chang: My First Thai Island
Mar 20, 2009

... sides it may also have. It was a long bus journey from Sihanoukville, crossing the border into Thailand, and then taking the ferry to Koh Chang, arriving around 6PM. I checked in to a totally normal-priced guesthouse without any trouble, and set out ...

Beach time blisssssss
Sep 2, 2008

... in October, and learn to speak Thai.  I met a girl on the bus out of Bangkok...and now we are travelling together to Koh Chang and on to Cambodia.  Sounds a little like the story of my first "solo" trip, when I spent about half a day ...

Ahh, a few more days of beach
Mar 27, 2007 (5 photos)

 It was another long journey from Khorat to Koh Chang, an island off the southern coast of Thailand. I guess we saved up a lot of good travel karma, though, because we were able to do the whole trip in one day, even if it was a very long day by the ...

Koh Chang
Feb 3, 2007

We decided to head east to Koh Chang so we hopped on a bus at about 7.30am and arrived at the ferry terminal around lunchtime. As the island is very long we decided to book a place to stay for the first night as it included a lift to the guesthouse and ...

Out of Bangkok to Koh Chang
Mar 10, 2006

... . Our bus turned out to be a small minibus, air-conditioned and adequate for the 8 of us making our way to Koh Chang. Three western-eastern married couples, one English couple a single older man and ourselves headed East. Despite Lek's advice to the ...

The Beach with Byrner
Jul 16, 2008 (71 photos)

... walked around a bit, headed to the National Gallery, and sought AC where we could.  We also made the decision to head to Koh Chang the following day, an island in the East.  In the morning we had planned to wake early, but this rarely becomes a ...