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Mochaccino, As fresh as it gets!
If I stay on Koh Chang you will find me nearly every morning at the Mochaccino Coffee house in Kai Bae Beach. Here you get a world class coffee and other Austrian delicatessens. The friendly and helpful staff team from Mochaccino on Koh Chang in Thailand serve as well fruit salads and other small snacks. In the evening you can come here for Chang and Singha Beers in a relaxt and familiar atmosphere. The owner of Mochaccino help always for reservations and give good travel tips around Koh Chang Island. My favorites are the fresh Americano Coffee in the morning, Ice Cappuccino in the afternoon and Beer Chang in the evening. You don’t like Coffee? No Problem, the Coffee House in Kai Bae offer much more: Milk Shakes, fresh fruit shakes, Tea, Wine, ADSL Internet and many many more. Come in and try the taste of real fresh coffee at Kai Bae in Thailand. This Café is one of my top addresses here on Ko Chang Island and in hole Southeast Asia. Try it out and be surprised how good a Coffee can be!
Mochaccino Kai Bae Beach
Siam Cottage Bungalows
The Siam Cottage Bangalows are the right choice for backpackers and travelers in Kai Bae Beach on Koh Chang island. All simple Bungalows from this guest house in Thailand have a own bathroom. You have the choice between fan and air-condition. The rooms with fan are of course cheaper. The Restaurant of Siam Cottage Accommodation serve Thai- Western food and fresh fruit shakes for a fair price direct on the beach of Koh Chang. From the balcony you have a good view to the small islands like Koh Yuak in the bay of Kai Bae. The sea here is about 29C warm and invite for swimming and snorkeling. I was middle 2008 here in this accommodation on Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand. I paid 300 Thai Baht for a easy Hut with fan and a own Bathroom with toilet. Siam Cottage is a good adress for people who looking for a guesthouse with style. Here you can enjoy your holiday while you chill in your hangmate and read your Lonely Planet travel guide under coconut palms.
Papa Deli & Bakery
The Papa island bakery is located at north Kai Bae beach on Thailands island Koh Chang. Papa deli & bakery offer Bread, Croisants, Baguettes, Pizza; fresh coffee and much more. Here you can relax by a good breakfast on the balcony. This Restaurant have a good choice of European Salami, Sausage and Cheese. The bakery on Koh Chang open at 8 o´clock in the Morning with crispy bagutte sandwiches and fresh whole corn bread. My favorite here at Papa Bakery in Kai Bae Beach is the Baguette sandwich with Gouda and spicy Italian Salami. They serve all baguettes with salad, cucumber, fresh pepper, tomato and your choice of mustard or mayonaise. For me Papa is the best bakery on Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand. Try it out.
Oodie’s Place is a restaurant in the north end of White Sand Beach on Koh Chang. This Restaurant offer a good offer on French, Italian and Thai dishes. My favorite at Oodies is Pasta. But many people don´t come for dinner, the most people come for the music! Every evening you can listen to live music. The live band at Oodies Place in Had Sai Kao play the best of Reggae, Rock and love songs. Here you can enjoy good music by a cold beer or a bottle of Sangsom. When the owner Oodies is on stage of this nice restaurant and bar you will hear world class Blues and Rock n´Roll. In the back of Oodies Bar there is a pool table where you can play for free. For me it is the best address at White Sands Beach on Ko Chang in Thailand. I was here many times with friends to drink Chang Beers, Sangsom and of course for listen to the guitar of Oodie. Try it out, this place is uniqe in Thailand and on Koh Chang!
Oodie's Place
Bungalows at Big Elk
The Steak House Big Elk at Klong Prao Beach offer much more than just good food. Here you find a choice of possibilities for stay from a bamboo hut with fan till two floor houses with air-con, TV and a fridge. Between the bungalows and huts there is a swimming pool. The Big Elk Restaurant offer a good choice on Thai and Western food like Spaghetti, Hamburgers and of course Steaks for a good price. My favorite of the thai food is Kao Pat Sapparot Kai which is fried rice with pineapple and chicken. Big Elk Bungalows on the Mountain side of Ko Chang Island celebrate every first and 15th of a month the Chang Spirit Party. This party is organized from the Chang Spirit foundation. The Spirit foundation take care the nature on the Elephant Island in the Gulf of Thailand. On this dates you can listen hereat this accommodation to good live music. The bands play a best of Blues, Reggae, Rock and Pop. The wooden chill out area from the Bar is topped by a beautiful palmleave roof. Everywhere are shells, wooden statures and other natural things from the sea for decoration.
A Frog at Big Elk
The friendly managers help you as well with day trips like scuba diving, elephant trekking and transport to your next travel destination. I´m living here now since about six month in a cheap but nice hut. Big Elk Guest House have special prices for long stay tourists, just ask if you want to rent a bungalow weekly or monthly. Nearly every evening there is a nice round of people at the bar who playing pool, talking, laughing and listen together to good music. I enjoy Big Elk Accommodation at the Klong Prao Beach on Ko Chang because the atmosphere is relax and the people are nice and friendly. It´s the right choice for every Backpacker or traveler on the Island in Thailand. For more information just pass by and ask for accommodation. Good food, good price, good music, good friends = Big Elk Bungalows at the mountain side of Klong Prao Beach.
Chill Out Lounge of my Bungalow
The Nam Tok Nang Yom is a small and actually a unspectacular waterfall on Koh Chang. Not many visitors travel here. But this is why this Nam Tok (Thai for waterfall) is special. Here you are most over the time lonely. In high season between November and March the small river don´t have water. The best time to travel here is the low season from April to October. The best way to come to Nang Yom is by motorbike. Just next to the 7eleven supermarket in Klong Son you will find the road to the waterfall in Thailand. From the parking area it´s about 20 minutes by foot on a small walking path. Sometimes if you are lucky you will see monkeys, hornbill birds and snakes on the walk thrue the jungle of the Ko Chang National Park. Enjoy your trip, but don´t forget to take sun creme and enough drinking water. The waterfall belongs to private land. The entry fee was in the middle of 2008 20 Thai Baht per person. I took this Picture in the green season in August 2008.
Nang Yom Waterfall
The Nam Tok Than Mayom is in the jungle on the east coast of Koh Chang in Thailand. About two kilometer after Dan Mai village you will find the small road to the waterfall. The area were the Than Mayom waterfall is belong to the Mu Koh Chang National Park. The admission fee was 200 Thai Baht in October 2008. For the present fee please read the Lonely Planet Thailand or ask at your hotel or resort.
Nam Tok Than Mayom
The easiest way to get here is by motorbike. Taxis are rare on this side of Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand. Close to the Than Mayom is a private parking place. They charge small money for park. From here it’s a walk of about five minutes threw the tight jungle. If you are lucky you will see some wildlife like butterfly’s, spiders, monkeys, birds and snakes on the way to Nam Tok Than Mayom. This Waterfall is for me the most beauties on Ko Chang. Actually there are two, the water falls down first in a small pool before a second small but nice waterfall runs into a big natural pool where you can swimming. Don’t forget sun creme, towel and swimmwear if you want to shower under the tropical Mayom waterfall. Drinks and food you can bring or buy at Dan Mai village near the public hospital of Koh Chang.
The Nam Tok Klong Plu is the most popular waterfall on Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand. This waterfall is in Klong Prao on the west coast of the tropical island. You can ride on your motorbike till the national park office of the Mu Ko Chang. From there it’s a pleasant walk thru the tight jungle to the Klong Plu waterfall. The water falls down from about 25-30 meter in a natural pool where you can refresh yourself in cold clean water from the jungle on Koh Chang. On the National Park office you have to pay an admission fee of 200 Thai Baht. This was the price in December 2008, maybe the price rise from while to while. For actual information take a look in Your Lonely Planet Thailand travel guide. The walk to the Nahm Tok Klong Plu will take you about 15 minutes at long the Klong Plu River which ends in the Gulf of Thailand near Panviman Resort.
Nam Tok Klong Plu
The highest waterfall on the island is perfect for a half day trip; don’t forget a towel and a swimming pant if you want to go swimining in the fresh water of the jungle pool. The Klong Plu is one of the main sights on the tropical island in Thailand. Near the office of Mu Koh Chang there are some restaurants and souvenir shops where You can buy cold drinks, some Thai food and of course souvenirs. The picture shows the waterfall during dry season, there is much more water in the green season between April and October. Enjoy this nice part of the beautiful island Ko Chang in Thailand.
The natural pool in the jungle of Koh Chang
Koh Yuak is a small inhabitant island in the gulf of Thailand. You can reach this beautiful Island from Koh Chang for a beachday with a speed boat from Kai Bae. On the east coast of Yuak island is a small beach with some corals in the sea witch are perfect for snorkeling. Many times i was here for scuba diving but actually it´s not a top dive spot in this region of the gulf of Siam.
Beach on Koh Yuak
The dive sites Hin Luk Bat, Hin Raap or Koh Man Nok have much more to offer for fun diving on Koh Chang. But Ko Yuak is good for the Padi Open Water Diver Course or for discover scuba diving because here are sandy bottom for the scuba skills and shallow water with nearly no current. From Kai Bae Hut the speedboats leaving from the morning and come back till the late afternoon in highseason between november and february. The speedboat from Kai Bae Speedboats need about 5 min for one way. If you like sports you can rent a kayak of Kai Bae Bech Resort. The turn needs about 40 min. Before you go by kayak take some informations about the current and wear lifejackets for your safety. Don´t forget drinks and food because there is nothing on Koh Yuak instead of nice white sand, warm water and some fishes witch you can watch with your diving mask an a snorkel.
A Coke Can on the Beach
Enjoy a nich day on a lonely island near Koh Chang in Thailand. Visit Koh Yuak, you will have fun!!
In memories of the paradiese on earth!
- Sunset at Thale Bungalows
My first time on Koh Chang in Thailand was in August 2006. Marius and I found “KP Huts” in the Lonely Planet Thailand and decide to stay here. When we arrived Ko Chang the taxi driver took us out at the north end of Klong Prao Beach. We walked down south to come to KP huts. Than the Klong Plu river barricade our way to the guesthouse. No bridge to find and back to the road was a long way with our heavy backpacks. After we took a break on the Klong plu of around five minutes, a Thai man comes with a kayak and asked us if he can help us. We was eased that we don´t have to walk back and sayed yes. His name is mum and he bring us over the river, first our back bags than us one by one because his dog was always with on the boat. When we arrived the other side we saw what we are looked for, easy beach huts on the beautiful tropical beach Klong Prao on Ko Chang. We not delayed to check in at Thale Bungalow. Actually our plan was to go up to north Thailand after some days on Chang Island. But here we found the paradise: good friends, good food, good music, good price and a fantastic atmosphere was the reasons that we not left till the end of our holiday in Thailand.
- Thale Restaurant
Before we traveled south Thailand with the Lonely Planet travel book but we found no place that was like here. To the next street it was around a half hour by walk, we hang all day around the beach and chilled in the hammock in front of our palm and bamboo bungalow. A half year later i comes back for one month on vacation with my father. After this holiday was clear for me: the life in Europe is not what i want! I don´t need status symbols or manipulation from everywhere, here at Thalé I can be who i am. One month I needed to quit everything in germany: car, apartment, university… Than i flow back to Thailand on Koh Chang. After one year the owner of Thale offer me to build my own Bungalow direct on the Gulf of Thailand.
- My first own Bungalow on Koh Chang
Thale Bungalow was between Barracuda Restaurant and Klong Prao Resort on the other side of Klong Plu River. This beach huts in Thailand stand in no travel guide, because of this fact I was sometimes the onliest “customer” at this beautiful spot in southeast Asia. Many times we had good live music on the beach. Thale was famous for good Blues, Reggae and rock n´roll. The food at Thale Restaurant was delicious and really cheap. A standard Thai dish was about 1 USD. But this was not the main reason for emigrate to Thailand. I felt at home here more than in Germany. My neighbors are most traverlers and they come and go. I stayed till the end of the contract. The highlight on this part of the west coast of Koh Chang was the beautiful sunset which I follow always from my hammock on the beach. It was direct on a headland between a lagoon of the river and the warm sea. Here I started my new life as a scuba dive professional as a Padi Divemaster.
- View of a Sunset from Klong Prao Beach
In the middle of 2008 the contract for the rented land end. Siri goes up to north Thailand and start new at Pai with the Stone Free Bungalows. Mum, his brother, have now a bungalow park named Big Elk at Klong Prao on the jungle side where I´m living right now. Big Elk Bungalows are as well really nice with a unique warm atmosphere like Thale.
- The sun goes down in Thailand
Rest In Peace Thalé Bungalow´s, you will be ever in my mind! The people, the atmosphere and the perfect place between Sea and River!
