Koh Chang Thailand Guide

Koh Chang Jungle Treks and Viewpoints: Khao Salak Phet, Kai Bae and the Island Above the Beaches Most people meet Koh Chang at sea level. They arrive by ferry, find a beach, watch the sun go down over the Gulf, and go home thinking they have seen the island. They have seen its edge. The real Koh Chang rises steeply behind the beach road: a long mountain ridge covered in dense evergreen rainforest, running the length of the island, holding streams, waterfalls and wildlife in its folds, and topped by peaks that look down on both coasts at once. Roughly seventy percent of the island is still forested, and most of that forest sits inside Mu Ko Chang National Park. To understand the place — and to earn its best views — you have to climb into it. This guide is about that other Koh Chang: the jungle treks and the viewpoints. It covers the easy lookouts anyone can reach, the harder guided summits of Khao Salak Phet and Khao Laem, and the short forest walks to streams and waterfalls that fi...