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Monday, March 19, 2007

Chang chang chang-it-ty chang shoo-bop

Koh Chang Sunset

There's 2 Koh Chang islands in Thailand. One of them everybody goes to. The other, nobody goes to. Apparently the latter is a hidden gem according to a couple that Eve met, who made her promise not to tell too many people about it. Whoops.

So, with this information, we decided to head off, ignoring the normal backpacker route, and investigate.

It should have taken 10 hours from Bangkok. It took 21. So by the time we *eventually* got dropped off on a deserted bit of beach we were all hoping it was going to be worth it. We weren't disappointed.

Our bungalow on the beach

There's NOTHING there. A few basic shacks on the beach which were as cheap as chips and a few hippies who seemed to have been marooned there for months. And then it's just you, the people you're with and the ocean. For this reason, if you're thinking of going, only consider it with people you won't end up killing and who you don't mind being very close to in a little hut on stilts. We stayed 2 nights. Any more and we may have ended up like the aforementioned.

Koh Chang Sunset