After deciding to stay an extra day on the Island, we took a taxi to the popular "White Sand Beach" which was packed with resort hotels and western food restaurants- a tourist trap. We booked our transport to Cambodia and hitched another taxi to the national park to go and check out the highly recommended waterfalls of Koh Chang. We had to pay a small entrance fee and leave all of our food behind before we set out on the short jungle trek along the river to ge...

Slept in and really spent the day chilling by the pool. Had a lovely lunch by the pool and a couple of ridiculously priced and sized (teensy) cocktails that contained nothing but various types of alcohol. Darren had an "Edinburgh" cocktail, which we were surprised to see on the menu! Twas a nice relaxing day. As the sun made it's way down, we went for a splash in the waves. What a sight- numerous backpackers frolicking in the waves throwing a ball about as the su...

Set off along the road to the internet café to type up my blog as I was very behind in my entries. Spent most of the day getting up to date, while Darren did his own jazz online. It was a really snazzy internet café. Koh Chang is not built up at all, so it was pretty much a caravan, with chik, boutique design. It had a huge plasma screen for watching films and a coffee maker for great lattés. So it was quite comfortable sitting on the vintage chairs, ...

Wed Early breakfast and after much confusion as to what bus we were to get on, we set off for Koh Chang. After the 6 hour bus ride, we stopped of for a bite to eat, witnessed a poor guy throw a wobbly, cause his bags had been lost along the way, then boarded a teeny boat with millions of people in it, to take us to the island. Funny- we were told we'd arrive at 2pm, and finally got there as it was beginning to get dark, typical. Once on land, we hitched a ri...