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May 28
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 28 May 2012
The photo that probably caught your eye the most of those above was the pickled Red Muntjac deer, as it isn’t often that someone has the idea of shoehorning a forest mammal into a large jam jar and then putting it on display. The National Park are taking their remit ...
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May 13
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 13 May 2012
A bit of a belated update partly because it is the start of Low Rainy Green Season, and so there’s not a lot happening here and partly because I decided to do a quick trip to Cambodia as the last time I visited Siem Reap was about 15 years ago ...
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April 23
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 23 April 2012
Plenty of joyous New Year spirit in this update. Songkran has been and gone, but ‘Songkran 2′ is just around the corner. The main days for water throwing were the 13,14,15 April but on 27 & 28 April Koh Chang will have its own celebration. The build up to this ...
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April 9
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 9 April 2012
Koh Chang was the busiest I have seen it for a long time this past weekend. A perfect storm of Easter holiday plus a 4 day long weekend holiday here in Thailand. The result was a 4Km traffic jam yesterday afternoon as all the Thai visitors decided to check out ...
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March 26
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 26 March 2012
Last update I mentioned I’d seen dolphins off Koh Mak & Koh Rayang and it seems that there are definitely more in the area at the moment as a couple of dead ones were found in Klong Son and others, still alive, spotted very close to Centrepoint Ferry pier on ...
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March 9
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 9 March 2012
Modern Dog will play a concert at The Hut, Klong Prao on March 31. If you aren’t appear particularly overwhelmed by that it is understandable as they aren’t that big outside Thailand – although they have toured in the US and Europe. But here it is the equivalent of having, ...
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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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The Weather for February 2011
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 10 February 2011
The weather for February 2011, from the Klong Prao Meteorological Office, i.e. outside my window. Early February continued where January left off with quite a lot of cloud. However, the cool ...
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The Black Sand Beach at Laem Ngop
Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Koh Chang, Thailand - 8 February 2011
Got to kick off this piece of insightful travel writing with the admission that I nicked the photo above off Wikipedia. Why? Because although I went to see it, I never took a photo of ...
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The 2010 Koh Chang Chronicles – Week 2
Blog: Siampedia - the wild years in Southeastasia - 13 July 2010
© 2010 Frank P. Schneidewind This is the sequel to week 1 of the Koh Chang Chronicles, it will cover week 2 of our second summer 2010 trip, with the usual updates. To get some actual facts on travel options and how to get here, check our 2010 report on Koh Chang travel options. Day [...]
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The Fire
Blog: Honey Service Year - 8 February 2010
I. A Chinese, an Australian, and a Spaniard walk into a Ball Room. Each are the front-line managers for emergency and disaster response in a very populated, rather poor province of China. Every year, these managers are responsible for the organization of medical, disaster, and emergency response planners for an annual conference. It is always a joyful and convivial time filled with card
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Deep Sighs of Contentment
Blog: Honey Service Year - 7 February 2010
Oh, what joy we have found in Trat, Thailand. Though certainly a town with a strong element of foreign tourism, Trat is peaceful. Trat is slower. Trat is warm. In Trat, our hand-washed clothing dries in a matter of hours, thanks to the strong sunshine. The heat that seeps through the cracks in the horizontal wooden siding of our lovely guesthouse brings with it scents of incense and laughter and
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