Koh Chang

Heavenly days and scary nights on Elephant Island

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February 24th 2007
So I took a night bus from Bangkok to Koh Chang, an elephant shaped island, on Tuesday. It was actually quite handy: we were picked up from Khao San Road after 10pm, everybody got a blanket, air con was switched on and the lights off right away, and everybody went to sleep. Luckily I had been prepared with a fleece and a flash light, otherwise it would have been very very cold and impossible to re ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more