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February 11
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 11 February 2012
After a couple of months of having nothing but a large open ditch by the side of the road, work has restarted on the White Sand beach drainage project. For 6 weeks or so it was just a 80cm wide gap between pavement and road, with nothing to stop people ...
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January 27
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 27 January 2012
The Souk. I was round on the east coast the other day and realised I hadn’t been in to see Ed, the Thai owner of The Souk for a long time. He’s a nice guy and runs a very good value small resort that has been in business for years. ...
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January 11
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 11 January 2012
Children’s Day & Relationship Day on Koh Mak. If you happen to be down on Koh Mak this Saturday the island is holding it’s annual Children’s Day festivities plus a new even for friends of the island. Unless you have young children in tow, you’ll probably want to skip the ...
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January 2
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 2 January 2012
I had planned an update prior to New Year but was too busy (and another couple of days back on Koh Kood just prior to a hectic New Year didn’t add to my productivity at all.) So Happy New Year everyone and many thanks to the numerous people who have ...
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December 20
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 20 December 2011
Quite a few photos and not a lot of informative, yet witty, prose in this update as spending a couple of hours a day pretty much every day this month answering emails from people looking for places to stay over New Year has slowly been sapping my will to live ...
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December 1
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 30 November 2011
The big event of the coming week is the ‘Muay Thai Flood Fight’, which , as the name suggests is some Muay Thai stuff in aid of victims of the recent floods in central Thailand. There will be various activities, a concert and a chance to meet some of Thailand’s ...
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November 16
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 16 November 2011
Today I went for a little walk. One I have been wanting to do for a long time and one that you should do too if you are the type of visitor who doesn’t plan on spending their time sitting in a bar all day and prefers to do something ...
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November 2
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 2 November 2011
If you are coming to Koh Chang this coming week, then the place to be seen is Klong Prao temple as this year’s Loy Krathong celebrations will be in full swing nightly from 6 to 10 November. On the night of the 10th many small shops and most hotels will ...
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October 20
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 20 October 2011
I wasn’t planning to do this update for another couple of days, a bit rushed as apparently flood water is heading to the north eastern suburbs of Bangkok which is where we have a house, ...
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October 10
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 October 2011
Lots of flooding in north and central Thailand but the east of the country, i.e. where we are, has hardly been affected at all. I have received uite a few emails ever since the floods ...
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September 11
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 11 September 2011
No killer, all filler in this update as I have been in Bangkok for a while and since I got back to Koh Chang the weather has been pretty damp. The island even made it ...
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Koh Chang’s Newest Viewpoint
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 30 August 2011
When I was on Pearl beach last week I noticed a new building on the clifftop, just to the north. And a couple of days ago a sign went up advertising what it is. The ...
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Koh Chang Sunsets – August 2011
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 27 August 2011
The rainy season may be pretty rainy but it is also the time of yea when, when the clouds do part, the skies are at their clearest and you can take much better landscape photos ...
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August 24
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 25 August 2011
There has been a fair bit of rain but on most days the sun has come out. At this time of year the sky is very clear and it is the best time of year ...
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August 11
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 August 2011
Thanks for the people who have emailed suggesting I get a real camera rather than just an idiot-proof point and shoot as they want to see some better quality pics than the ones that usually ...
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Koh Mak, Thailand’s Secret Eden
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 30 July 2011
“This is the only stoplight on the island,” announced Yodying, my guide for the day. “Where?” I asked, not seeing the normal pole topped with red, yellow and green lights. He pointed to a three-foot high metal tripod with a red light mounted on top, shoved under a tree between intersecting sand roads. “We use [...]
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July 27
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 27 July 2011
Photos above are from a recent road trip up north to Petchabun and Loei provinces. It is the area in between the tourist trail areas of Sukhothai & Chiang Mai on the left and the ...
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July 10
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 July 2011
A few people have asked where the update was, I had planned to do one a few days ago but the weather this past week has been so good that it was a shame to ...
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June 21
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 21 June 2011
As the rainy green season is now well underway and rain is falling in ever increasing amounts it is time to consider the question on everyone’s minds “When will the first landslide happen?” Last year ...
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June 7
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 7 June 2011
There is a slim chance that you may have noticed a couple of half naked young ladies fondling an elephant above. This is the latest wheeze to get Koh Chang on the tourist map. The ...
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May 23
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 23 May 2011
After I posted the old photos of Koh Chang last update, Walter, an expat in Thailand, was kind enough to send me three pics from 1993 of the Klong Prao estuary, where I live. I ...
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Lonely Beach Pics
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 22 May 2011
Lonely Beach is the main backpacker hangout on Koh Chang, although it is going more upmarket. On the actual beach there are only four places to stay – Siam Beach Resort at the northern end, ...
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Aerial Photos of Our ‘Hood – Klong Life
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 17 May 2011
Some recent photos of the estuary in the centre of Klong Prao beach. This area is hidden from view if you are on the beach and also can’t be seem from the main road, so ...
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How do Elephants Get To Koh Chang?
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 13 May 2011
Some people are still under the assumption that elephants are native to Koh Chang. They aren’t, they are all brought here by boat. But it isn’t very often that you see them being transported and I ...
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Koh Mak From Above. Helicopter Tour of the Island
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 May 2011
This video was made in late April 2011 when the Bangkok Hospital Group’s Medevac helicopter visited Koh Mak and Koh Kood. This was to practice emergency evacuations from the island to the mainland and also ...
