Keereta Resort & Spa Ko Chang

... beautiful, not as beautiful as the other two I have been to but it was still a lot of fun to be there. It had this great swimming area down below that we all had a great time swimming in, even after it started raining.

Afterwards everyone loaded back into the truck and we drove over some massive hills, that to be honest I didn't know if I was going to make it up because they were the biggest hills I have ever driven a stick shift on ...

... 1489;ג'ונג
500;ים של מרכז האי.
אר ;בעה ימים עברו כשעות אחדות, ואני צריך לחזור לבנגק 93;ק. פאט הציע ...

... just runs around being drunk and smiley and throwing things and shouting 'Happy New Year' for a few days. It's impossible to write about Ko Chang without mentioning Balboa, first Pet of the year and possibly the most annoying and most adorable grey kitten to have existed. We tried to palm him off on Little Eden's owners before we left but nopers, he's probably still on our doorstep waiting for some crisps. Bless.

... to the beach and had sarnies and chips before baking in the sun again all afternoon. Back to the hut to watch sunset and play cards before heading into town for dinner in a local cafe. Had a few drinks around town and headed back to our accomodation's bar on stilts over the water. Day 6, Up and pad thai brekkie, again, and onto beach for more sunnage. Same as yesterday we played cards, watched sunset with beers and ate in a local cafe again.

... on Ko Chang. Everyone had tried convincing us that we would have to get an expensive tourist bus to Pattaya that only ran once or twice a day as there were no government buses from Trat to Pattaya. We would of course just miss this bus and have to spend the night and get the one the following morning, blah, blah, scam, scam. Skepticism paid off. There are buses from Trat to Pattaya, and they are only a 50B songthew ride from the pier.

... up the hill with a seaview for 350 baht a night. Once settled we headed down to the beach to get some grub, and had a few drinks with Brendan and Anna. Next day we woke up in a hut very strange indeed. It was a basic wooden bungalow built on stilts with a lovely outdoor ensuite featuring a very cold shower, loo & basin but with a very fetching banana tree feature which you could see whilst sitting on the loo. The bed was ...

... quality road would be a disincentive to fly. Personally, I think that travellers are whingeing as they can't afford the air fare, and that more likely reasons are that 1) Cambodia is one of the poorest countries on Earth, and that particular road isn't a priority and 2) relations with the Thais aren't exactly good, so why improve the road leading there? Three hours later we'd passed a road that was actually better than most in India, and we were at the ...

... They are really really slimy! yuck! haha But they are pretty...I would just kick frantically! In order to get to the first island we had like a 1hr boat ride...and you know it will be rough when the guides start by handing out gravol to everyone! hahaha Luc felt a bit ill by the end of it and was glad to see the first island approaching! The beaches were tremendous! White sand and turquoise water...absolutely beautiful ...

... you're going to have to get used to, though. These people are poor, and they utilize anything they have control over to get as much of your money out of you as they can. When a white person walks up to them, all they know is that you have money and they don't. Just go pay her, get your ticket, and I'll buy you a beer on the island." So I walked up to the counter, counted out my 150 virtually stolen baht and practically threw it at her. I then counted out 50 ...

... mongoose, monitor lizards, small Indian civets, Burmese and reticulated pythons as well as seventy three species of bird. There is also an endemic species of frog that lives here called, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Ko Chang frog.

Ko Chang, covering 492 sq kilometres, is the second largest island belonging to Thailand. It is also the largest in its archipelago of some 500 islands, many of which comprise the Ko Chang national marine park. Most of these islands are ringed by white ...