On the ferry to Koh Chang, the blue moment

After the Cambodia experience we were ready to return back to Thailand, which to be honest felt already like home. With the concern of the rainy season (starts in that area around the end of May) on our minds, we headed to Koh Chang. Koh Chang was the biggest island we visited, and the feeling was totally different from those idyllic Koh Lipe- ambience with basically us and the locals staying on. We read from the Lonely Planet, which we managed to lose somewhere to the streets of Phnom Penh, that few years ago the government of Thailand decided they want to make Koh Chang a more upmarket-kind-of-a-place, and try to decrease the amount backpackers to the minimum. Well, the result was not exactly this. There were some really fancy hotels and mostly the main beach area was full of nice restaurants and a lot of shops, beauty salons, ATM’s and all that. We, of course, chose to go as far from this place as we could and found ourselves from the LonelyBeach!

 

On Koh Chang we had one of our best accommodations (the Top5 –list coming later!), Kachabura Chalet. The rainy season is not only a bad thing as we realised after getting the really nicely decorated bungalow with 300baht (~6€), during the season the price being 500baht. So, we decided to leave the old and windy “no-toilet”- bungalows (our usual ones!) to the others and stayed at this nice place, surrounded by the garden.

I got a new nickname from Laura, "Niksis". Here i am fixing a little cover for our shower so that Laura will be able to take a shower without the male workers on the roof of the bungalow next to us wont see her!

 

Sadly, we couldn’t do any diving on Koh Chang :(. I would have wanted, but as it was raining almost every night really heavily, the visibility wouldn’t have been too good. Also the one in Sipadan was the best last dive one can wish for. So, together we decided to let the nemos and the cute puffer fish as well as the mola-molas to wait for us few more months until we meet again. ; )

 

One of the best things on Koh Chang was the yoga sessions every morning. Finally we had enough time and space to do it and also I was participating! I also loved to cute breakfasts of our own, on our own veranda. We had one whole pineapple, plain yoghurt with muesli, fresh break with jam and depending on whose morning it was to buy the food, some surprise such as chocolate bars or coffee. And own music as well!! 

 

All in all, Koh Chang was a real chilling out place for us, as the rainy season had scared almost all the other tourists away. We enjoyed of the discount nights at the nice restaurants, barely empty beach and cheap accommodation. We also had time to look back at the wonderful months passed by. We had fun making TOP-5 lists of all the possible things, such as “Close to death situations, TOP-5” and “The crappiest nights TOP-5”. I’ll share some of these with you soon!

 

The week went fast without basically doing anything. We left Koh Chang knowing it was the second last destination before Bangkok and then Singapore. Back in Bangkok we were lucky enough to get to the real nice guesthouse called Lampu, the same as last time! This time we had only a day in Bangkok, so not that much time. We managed to do the essential any how; get the manicure plus pedicure, go to hairdressers, sell the old sheets to an old lady on the street (what a cheat, the do not buy everything in those “We buy everything”-places even though they say so!! At least not Finnish literature or broken huge torches), do some last laundry, eat the last Pad Thai, shop on Khao San Road and just feel the Bangkok. When the sun came up we took a taxi to the airport, watching the city bathing in the colours of orange and red, saying our bye byes.

 

Next destination: Singapore (after 10 weeks break!)