Koh Chang Thailand Guide

Bang Bao: Koh Chang's Stilt Fishing Village, Pier and Seafood At the southern tip of Koh Chang, where the island's west-coast road finally runs out of road, there is a village that stands on stilts over the sea. Bang Bao is not a beach and it is not a resort: it is a working fishing village built out over the water, with wooden houses on poles, a pier that doubles as a high street, fishing boats moored below the floors, and a lighthouse tower that has become the village's landmark. Visitors come here for dinner and for the sunset, locals come here to buy fish, and everyone leaves with the feeling that they have seen Koh Chang as it was before the hotels arrived. Bang Bao began as a fishing settlement, and fishing is still what the village is for. The houses along the pier are homes and family shops, the boats below are working boats, and the fish in the tanks of the pier restaurants were landed that morning, often by the same families who run the restaurants. The villag...