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Scuba Diving on Koh Chang: The HTMS Chang Wreck, Koh Rang Reefs and Learning to Dive

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Scuba Diving on Koh Chang: The HTMS Chang Wreck, Koh Rang Reefs and Learning to Dive Koh Chang is famous above the water — jungle mountains, long west-coast beaches, waterfalls in the forest. Its underwater side gets a fraction of the attention, and that is exactly why divers who find it tend to keep it to themselves. In the waters south and south-west of the island, and out in the protected Koh Rang archipelago, there are around thirty dive sites: coral pinnacles, rocky reefs, gentle training sites in clear park water, and one genuine heavyweight — the HTMS Chang, a 100-metre navy landing ship sunk deliberately in 2012 and now generally described as the largest diveable wreck in Thailand. This is not the crowded, conveyor-belt diving of Thailand's famous dive islands. Boats are smaller, sites are shared with fewer fins, and on a good winter morning you can have a coral pinnacle, or a wreck the size of a football pitch, effectively to your boat. This guide covers Koh Chang divi...
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Klong Prao Beach, Koh Chang: The Island's Long, Quiet Middle

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If White Sand Beach is Koh Chang's front door and Kai Bae its sunset terrace, Klong Prao is the island's long, quiet living room. Stretching for roughly three to four kilometres down the west coast, it is the longest beach on Koh Chang — a wide sweep of sand split by river mouths and coconut groves, backed by a handful of resorts spread far enough apart that the beach never feels busy. Families, couples and long-stayers choose Klong Prao precisely because there is less here, and more room to enjoy it. Three Sections, One Beach Klong Prao divides naturally into three parts. The northern end, around Chai Chet, has a rocky cape, a small pier viewpoint and the liveliest cluster of beach bars and restaurants. The middle is the classic postcard: leaning coconut palms, wide sand at low tide, and the mouth of the Klong Prao river and estuary, where kayaks slip into mangrove channels. The southern end is the quietest, with larger resorts, soft sand and the road bending inland towards...
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Than Mayom Waterfall: Koh Chang's Royal Waterfall on the Quiet East Coast

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Than Mayom Waterfall: Koh Chang's Royal Waterfall on the Quiet East Coast Every visitor to Koh Chang hears about one waterfall. Klong Plu, on the west side, is in every brochure, on every tour list, and busy on every sunny weekend. Than Mayom, the island's other national park waterfall, sits on the opposite coast, behind the park headquarters on the quiet east-coast road, and most holidaymakers never reach it at all. That is a shame, and also the point. Than Mayom is smaller, shadier and more local in feel than its famous sister — a tiered fall running over black rock into clear pools, on a stream called Klong Mayom, in a place Thai visitors know for a reason no west-coast waterfall can match: kings came here, repeatedly, and carved their marks into the stone. This guide covers Than Mayom properly: where it is, why it matters in Thai history, what the four tiers are like, when the water is worth the trip, what the park ticket costs, how to get there from the west-coast beac...
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Location: Koh Chang, Trat
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Living on Koh Chang Long-Term: A Practical Guide to Renting, Healthcare, Working Online and Settling In

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Living on Koh Chang Long-Term: A Practical Guide to Renting, Healthcare, Working Online and Settling In Koh Chang changes completely when you stop visiting it and start living on it. A holiday is a beach, a boat trip and a sunset. A long stay is a rented room with a kitchen you actually use, a market you go to twice a week, a clinic you hope you never need, a ferry timetable pinned inside your head, and a rainy week in September that tests whether you chose the island for the right reasons. People do stay here for months — remote workers, retired couples, slow travellers, and dive and hospitality staff — and those who settle well pick a base that fits daily life, not holiday photos, and learn the island's systems in the first fortnight. This guide is the practical side of that stay: choosing where to live, renting for a month or more, healthcare, shopping, working online, transport, paperwork in plain terms, and living through the green season. Detailed numbers live in our costs ...
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Location: Koh Chang, Trat
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