Than Mayom Waterfall: Koh Chang's Royal Waterfall on the Quiet East Coast
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...