Snorkelling and Boat Trips in Mu Ko Chang: Koh Rang, the Near Islands and a Day on the Water
Snorkelling and Boat Trips in Mu Ko Chang: Koh Rang, the Near Islands and a Day on the Water Here is the first thing to understand about snorkelling on Koh Chang, because it saves a lot of disappointment: the island itself is not really the snorkelling. Koh Chang's west-coast beaches are lovely, sandy and swimmable, but sand is a poor home for coral, and the water over a sandy bottom close to shore is often cloudy, especially after rain. The reefs — the real reefs, with branching coral, schools of reef fish and clear water — live offshore, around the small islands to the south of Koh Chang inside Mu Ko Chang National Park. Above all they live around one small group of islands: Koh Rang. So a Koh Chang snorkelling day is, by definition, a boat day. You do not wander down the beach with a mask. You get up, you ride to a pier, you board a boat, and the boat takes you to where the underwater island actually begins. That is not a drawback. It is the shape of one of the best days out...