Koh Chang Thailand Guide

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...

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 ...

Costs of Staying on Koh Chang: What a Day, a Week and a Month Really Cost Koh Chang has a reputation for being the affordable big island, and in broad terms that reputation is earned. It is not the cheapest island in Thailand, and it is not a place where money disappears without explanation either. What it rewards is a traveller who can tell a fair price from an inflated one, and who knows which costs are seasonal and which are fixed. The figures below are typical ranges for 2026, gathered from the island rather than from a booking site, and both the English and Thai versions describe the same island, the same prices and the same trade-offs. The honest version of the question is not "How much does Koh Chang cost?" but "How much does Koh Chang cost for the way I travel?" A solo backpacker sleeping in a fan room, eating at markets and riding a rented scooter will spend a fraction of what a family in a beachfront resort spends, and both will have had a good trip. Thi...