frozenfarang Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 i´m a frequent traveller to thailand and some of the sourrounding countys. first trip to LOS was in ´85. ever been to the islands at this time ? (especially koh chang this was great) my thai friends call me nam tok andik (dnow cause they meet me my first time in songkran for seweating a lot or caus i´m addicted to nam tok´s) so if anyone knows a nice nam tok, preffered the ones with possibillity to take a cool refreshing swim, let me know, if possible with location on map or discription how to get there and pictures. maybe i can get them together on a web-site p.s. im specially looking for one beside the highway chinag mai - bkk, just a few meters beside the street my favorite ones are the one in the erawan np, nice steps in different colors the other one is near bkk, you can rent a ?maturing hose? and drift on the small river (anyone knows the name of this?) an the cold one just a step behind white sand beach at koh chang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hi, Welcome! Spend quite a bit of time on Koh Chang as well, but have not been there for almost 8 years now. Should really go back again. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaad Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Have great memories from Koh Chang as well. Was there 5 or so years ago and was like paradise. AMAZING! Never seen anything like it. P.S. Have yet to visit the South of Thailand :: Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozenfarang Posted December 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 maybe you wont find the island you remember on chang in the last years everything has gone worse for example in white sand beach they have build a 3 level boutique hotel, a ferry is running to chang, so everyone comes with his car. the time i´d like to remember on chang was when only 3 bath busses are running, there was no concrete road and electricity was only for night time it was like heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Hi, Hmm, yeah sounds rather different than I remember. When I was first there ('95) there was no phone, no electricity (they only had generators which provided elec. from 6pm till midnight) and none of the roads were even paved. I stayed in a bamboohut for 50 Baht a day; weekly expenses were around 1,500 Baht Don't think I could still do that Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozenfarang Posted December 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 oh man sounds like good old times, was ther for an other try in 99 or 2000, just walket down the white sand beach road, u-turn back to ferry dont want to destroy my memorys looks like chaweng. have a look at the map, map of koh chang even an amari hotel is on chang now, last time i stayed at chang, there was the first concrete bungalow in construction. always thougt chang is part of the marine np and something like this waste of nature wont happen. tit, money counts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Hi, "always thougt chang is part of the marine np and something like this waste of nature wont happen." That was what I was told as well. People could only build on 15% (?) of the land and nothing above 2 stories. Sounds like another nice island is destroyed through tourism Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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