Jan 7, 2012 - Koh Chang

Hallo ihr Lieben, Heute abend bin ich von Koh Chang nach Pattaya zurückgekehrt. Die Fahrt zur Insel war ein Erlebnis an sich! Organisiert haben wir sie über einen Uhrmacher (!) Den meine Freundin hier kennt. Der wiederum kennt jemanden usw. Auf diese Weise kam ich zu einem Minibus, der mich zur Fähre nach Koh Chang bringen sollte. Der aber hat mich wieder mitten im Nirgendwo abgesetzt, wo ich wiederum für den Rest des Transfers erneut bezahlen sollte - mehr als das Doppelte des ersten Fahrpreises. Aber da man ja nun schon irgendwo im...

Apr 17, 2011 - 17/04/11

booked a flight to vietnam today, saigon on tuesday. will met up with tanja, she is their since sunday. looking fwd. maybe we stay in the city or go the a island in the south of vietnam. tomorrow i am going to do snorkling with eco divers, pick up at 8am from thr hotel, yeah!

Apr 14, 2011 - 13/04/11

while walking around kai be beach i found this rteally nice place called the chill. some kind of boutique design hotel with really fancy rooms. i wanna come here! www.thechillkohchang.com so i try to get a good rate. at the lobby teir these ladyboys working, easy going..... yep get a 40% dicount so i book 4 7 nights which gets me to around a 1000 chf. love the place. nice and quiet just thais here 4 the holiday and some german young family with 2 kids, the boy around 4 and the sweetets baby girl i have ever seens, omg i want kids!!!

Apr 12, 2011 - 11/04/11

bangkok is killing me, its really hot, lound and polluted. def, to hektik for the beginning of my travels. need a quiet place to chillout. desided to leave today to koh chang, a island on the east coastof thailand, the south just got flooded so i guess its a good desisontogo there. toom the bus at 8.30 in the morning at the easter busterminal, the ride was good, 241 bhat. changed some place to a pickup taki that took me to the ferrysation 120baht. the ferry fare was incl in that 120baht. on the ride over i met this britsh guy how has been...

Dec 27, 2010 - Visa run to Cambodia

A nightmare day to Cambodia. As our visa expired today for Thailand, today we had to go to Cambodia to exit Thailand and re enter to get another visa. We waved bye bye to Koh Chang after spending another relaxing boxing day on the beach and saying goodbye to our friends. Our trip today was booked from Koh Chang to Cambodia border then back to Bangkok. We left early and set off on our mini bus crossing the water on the ferry. After a not too bad journey we arrived at a hotel at 1pm where we were told to have lunch. Whilst in the hotel, the...

Dec 25, 2010 - Christmas day in paradise

We went to such a great party last night. We met a couple of girls from London who are really sweet and they joined us and Mel. We started in a few bars in the town and made our way down to the beach after that. There were 3 bars on the beach set up with sound systems playing loud music and we danced the night away. In the morning I was feeling a bit delicate from the late night so we spent Christmas day down the beach. Mainly we were swimming in the sea as it was so hot. In the afternoon we went for massages and had our Christmas dinner...

Dec 24, 2010 - The days of Koh Chang

What a great 5 days we have had in Koh Chang. The beach is stunning and the sun is so warm, we have been spending our days down the beach playing Frisbee, bat and ball and sunbathing. I bought a lilo and have actually been swimming in the sea. In the evenings we have been watching movies and visiting bars. They play live music everywhere so we have been well entertained. Joss has taught me how to play chess and we've been continuing the theme of playing cards. Melvin arrived a few days ago which is great, we have also met another group of...

Dec 19, 2010 - Koh Chang

We moved in to our new pad this morning. We downgraded to a 500BHT room but its a cute little soft wood bungalow with a hammocked porch and what seems like a front garden partitioned with rocks. The bungalow has windows all around the outside walls, so you can open them out and get fresh air and light. The claret curtains remind me of centre parks and we have a mosquito net above the bed which is like a tent... very cosy. After moving bungalow we headed to the palm lined beach and sunbathed on the soft white sand. The sea is clear and warm...

Dec 18, 2010 - Koh Samet to Koh Chang

We set off today late at midday. Although Koh Chang is not far east of Koh Samet you have to go back to the mainland, travel to Trat and cross again on the boat. We arrived at Ban Pe shortly before 2pm and couldn't get a mini bus to Trat. In the end we got a 2 hour Tuk Tuk for GBP20. By the time we arrived at Koh Chang off the ferry it was dark and we had to endure another 40 minute Tuk Tuk ride down to lonely beach. Koh Chang is the 3rd biggest island in Thailand and it's English name means Elephant island. We eventually arrived at Lonely...

Apr 13, 2010 - Bangkok and Koh Chang

Back to Bangkok to see the Sukhimvit area (business and shopping district). We'd booked a central hotel with average reviews but when we turned up we were shown to an amazing suite which we didn't believe could be ours so we locked the door and unpacked quickly. We shopped during the day and partied on an evening, even managing to visit some of the more interesting areas which enlightened us as to why Bangkok is so popular with the sex tourists. We also used Bangkok as a gateway to get to the island of Koh Chang where we enjoyed two very...

May 19, 2009 - Koh Chang

On the island of Koh Chang on north eastern Thailand coast. It seems to be a popular escape from Bangkok, lots of western tourists. The beaches are good, although this is the off season, so most days are gray and rainy. Which is fine by me, I'm at the end this particular Asia session - I fly to Canada soon - so I'm enjoying just relaxing. Taking in a few movies, reading a good spy book, sleeping late. Did a tour of the island by motorbike, but there's not much to see. Looking forward to seeing the kids and spending the summer in Canada...

Jan 11, 2009 - A lot in the next few entries

Things got really busy after Thailand which is good biz wise but left little time to follow up on keeping my blog at least half way up to date, so bare with me while I fill in the gaps for those that wondered how the rest of the trip went. In Thailand, I had stayed in Bangkok for a few days which without looking back, believe I had blogged already...in kind of a hurry because I have so much to do so let's move onto Koh Chang which came after Pattaya which was a rat invested sex hole (literally) and I didn't think much of Thailand until I...