Elephant Island
Von w-scharfenberg, 23:21Koh Chang means Elephant Island. And that's where I go today.
I wake up at 6am ... and go back to bed to sleep some longer. At 9:30 I'm on my way. The steets are good and easy to find ... nevertheless some bad accidents are to be seen.
I arrive at Laem Ngop, close to Trat, at around 3pm. First a lady jumpes onto the road, waiving with some papers but I don't stop. Than I stop at the harbour, close to a ticket shop. It's 260Baht (6EUR) for a return ticket driver and car. After I bought the ticket, the lady tells me to follow her brother who rides a motorbike. He drives some kilometers on small roads. At last we are arriving at a pier. Nobody is there but some ferries. He tells me that it will take around half an hour until the ferry will leave... time by time some more people are arriving and after one hour another ferry arrives and takes us to the other size. If Jesus ever has been here he will have had taken the same ferryboat, I'm sure ...
Ingo had told me, that he likes White Sands Beach most. So I go there and look for a hotel. I find the BamBoo Resort, not first class but directly at the beach. I pay 1800Baht (40EUR) for an airconditioned hut. Not too cheap but ok.
In the night I have some food there at the beach. It's better than I thought! Having a lot of nice food and two beer I pay less than 10EUR. And at 8:30 there is a quiet nice "fire-show"