Koh Chang
Travel Blogs from Koh Chang, Thailand
Tales from tropical wonderland
... 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 ...
"It only rains in the afternoons during monsoon"
... jumped on the scooter and went out to explore the island...it seemed a good day to check out where the nice beaches were. Koh Chang is a beautiful island with a mountainous interior which is blanketed in jungle. There is only one road which loops the ...
Beach Time
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. ...
Elephant Island
... tourist development in Thailand today. I knew things would be different this time back after so many years away from Thailand. But in Koh Chang, development has grown exponentially in the past few years. 13 years ago it wasn't much more than a spec on ...
Island time
... 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!
... 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 ...
Duuu duuu duuu do datamm....
... 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!
... 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
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 ...
Weihnachten im Paradies
Auf Koh Chang mieteten wir uns in je eine Strandhuette ein. Sie waren sehr zentral gelegen, aber auch mit Luecken, durch die mal so der eine oder andere Gecko oder einmal sogar eine Schlange kroch. Die meiste Zeit verbrachten wir im "Treehouse", einem ...
Tank Surfing
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 ...
A Letter to a Friend
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
... 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 ...
Inselleben
... vs. Bayern (Anpfiff: 01.15 Ortszeit) übertragen würde. Immerhin fanden wir aber mehrere nette Bars, schauten bei einem Ligaspiel der Koh Chang Pool League (Billard) zu und brauchten auf dem Rückweg mehrere Anläufe, um im Dunkeln den Weg zu Baan Rim ...
Monkeys and Monsoons
... of before walking for an hour through the jungle and across the beach to the only shop on the island. There are no roads on Koh Chang, just a few scattered guest houses and a small village in the centre of the island. Now it is raining very heavy and we ...
Under the Current
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!
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!
... the 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 ...
Koh Chang with a new travel member...
Day 1 arrive after taxi ride from bangkok. take ferry, relatively empty head to Kai Bae beach area, search for bungalows find three bed lady boy bungalow raining head to dinner and beers - head to bar called Angels - talk with Babs and bartenders, ...
Rain, Rain Rain
... windy 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 ...
South Thailand Island life
... without. I will take that any day compared to the trash piles in Bangkok. I guess another disturbing aspect of life in Thailand, and many "third world" countries is the trash. Trash is piled everywhere. Too much of that trash is plastic. ...
The Isle of Elephants
... 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
... of 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 ...
Koh Changri-La
Right back where we started from ... We flew from Saigon to Bangkok to Trat and ferried the straits to the garden island of Koh Chang. A bit off the main tourist path, we enjoyed two weeks of sand, swimming, reading, eating and longs walks on the beach. ...
Hideaway
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 ...
Vaek fra larm og stoj
... kunne bruge aircondition uden at overdrive! :D Tiden gik overraskende hurtigt og ud paa eftermiddagen kom vi med en baad fra Laem Ngop til Koh Chang. Ved ankomsten til Koh Chang blev vi MEGET overraskede over, hvor lidt turistinfo der var at finde. Vi gik ...
The "other" Koh Chang
... beach, the ceaseless roar of the sea, or the growing breeze that hinted at a storm which never arrived, but something about Koh Chang was unsettling me. It seemed so desolate and lonely, the eventless days interspersed with long, dark nights. That evening ...
a new star
One evening I was having a drink with my new Canadian best friend and neighbor and I asked him: "Shall we go to the sea side"? The answer was yes! We left the day after!! ...
Koh Chang - 15th to 17th March
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
... 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, ...


