Chilled out resort near the best beaches in Koh Chang
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Info Koh Chang

Habitants 5,000
To Bangkok: 320 km (about 4-5 hours with car)
Province: Trat
Size: 217 km2
Islands: 52
Highest mountain: 744 meter
Airport: Trat
Second biggest Island in Thailand
Koh Chang means Elephant Island.


Beaches
The biggest beaches: White sand beach, Klong Prao, Kai Bae, Lonely beach and Long beach.

Villages
The biggest villages: Klong son, Klong prao, Kai bae, Bang bao, Dan mai, Salaphet och Checkbae. Before and now, the local people live on their fruit gardens and you can find Durian, Pomelo, Mangosteen, Rambutan just to mention a few. There are a lot of rubber tree plantations on the island as well

Health Care
Koh Chang International Clinic, which is a subclinic to Bangkok Hospital.
P.P. Clinic
Koh Chang Hospital, government.
Many drugstore

Bank
Most of the banks have found and established offices in Koh Chang already and there are many ATMs most of them located on the west coast.

Post Office
The main post office is located at Pearl beach which is between White sand beach and Chaichet beach.

Immigration
Immigration is located in Laem Ngob

Diving and snorkelling
Koh Chang archipelagos have good diving and snorkeling with corals and fish. You can find many diving schools if you want to take a certificate or are already an experienced diver.

Boat trips and jungeltrekking
There are many boat trips to choose from around the island depending if want to snorkeling, day or night fishing. A catamaran is for rent with captain for daytrips, dinner tour or parties. Boats from Bangbao have transport service to other islands. Yachts are for rent with experienced captains.
The mountainous jungle interior of the island offers some challenging and enjoyable walking.

Waterfalls
The most visited waterfalls on Koh Chang is Klong Plu in Krong Prao. Than Mayom on the eastcoast located next the National Park headquarters. Both these waterfalls take an entrance fee. There are other waterfalls to visit that are free, Klong Nonsi in Dan Mai, Klongson, Kai Bae and two others near Salaphet.

Elephant trekking
There are 3 elephant camps on the island you can visit and it is possible to ride the elephants.

Thai cooking
If you want to learn Thai cooking you can find 4 different cooking schools to choose from.

Shopping
The most shopping can be found on the west coast from small shops, markets to tailors

Restaurants and Bars
If you want to dine out you can find a big variety of restaurants, Italian, Mexican, Swedish, French and more and of course local food. There are also plenty of bars, small beach bars to pubs with live music that plays rock, blues and old goodies and if you want to go dancing there are two discos.

Massage, saunas and Spas
You can choose different massage traditional thai, swedish, sport or another whole body massage. A herbal sauna is to be found at Bailan beach and there are more Spas that can be recommended for a good price value.

Wildlife
Most of Koh Chang is covered in rain forest that has been largely undisturbed due to the mountainous terrain of the island. There are also good examples of mangrove forest ecosystems where the island’s numerous streams meet the sea. National Park status was awarded to the island chain in 1982 in effort to preserve the exceptional land and marine environment. The forests of the island support a large range of wildlife. A survey conducted for Thailand’s National Park Service in 1992 recorded 29 different species of mammal on Koh Chang, for example Stump- tailed macaque, barking deer, wild pig, javan mongoose and silvered langur. Birdwatchers will be please to know that 74 bird species were found including nightjar, pacific swallow, yellow vented bulbul and oriental pied hornbill.

Ferry service
There are 2 car ferries to Koh Chang, one of them is in Ao Thammachart and the other one is Centerpoint ferry. From Ao Thammachart it takes about 25 minutes across to Ao Sapparot and leaves every 45 minutes and the Centerpoint ferry take almost one hour and leaves every full hour, during the high season they leave more frequently.

Islands around Koh Chang

Koh Kood is the biggest island in Koh Chang’s archipelago and the 4th biggest island in Thailand, local habitant is only about 1500.
Koh Maak is a smaller island with 500 habitats and has about 15 resorts. It takes about 2 hours from Bang Bao pier.
Koh Wai is a small charming island with 2 simple resorts with no roads and the island have good snorkeling just outside. It takes about one hour from Bang Bao with boat.

Trat and nearby cities
Trat is about 20 km from Laem Ngob, which is the port going to Koh Chang. There are many markets that sell household goods, food and fruits. Trat has one department store as an air conditioned shopping center and you can find KFC in the same building. Trat has 20,000 inhabitants.
Klong Yai/Had Lek located at the border to Cambodia, it’s a small fishing village with markets where they sell cheap alcohols and cigarettes.
Chantaburi only one hours drive from Trat towards Bangkok, bigger city that Trat with few big department stores.
Pattaya is about 4 hours drive from Trat