Koh Chang will soon be another memory! The chef really excelled this morning. Breakfast food at this resort is outstanding. Each morning we have been presented with different choices. An English palate would normally welcome some of the dishes more for lunch than breakfast, but the taste, fantastic. And the food sculpture merited careful study. It's nearly time to catch the ferry to Trat and then the bus to Bangkok. Shanghai Inn here we come, for the nth time. ...

As we needed cheering up after saying goodbye to Kate, what could better than an elephant trek in the blazing tropical sun?Ana bravely exchanged places with the mahout as we squelched our way through the dense rain forest! You see, Koh Chang has only been in the tourist trade for a few years; it's rather wild.On the way to the 'Paradise Resort' on the west coast of the island, the taxi had to negotiate three sections of the road that had been washed a...