Greetings from Koh Chang. KC is an island about 400 km from Bangkok - just to the South East. It's the second largest in Thailand (Phuket is the biggest) but is really underdeveloped - they didn't have electricity and roads until 2 years ago...Our hotel is OK - the first room was awful with an ant infestation in the bathroom but the second room seems to be OK, and it is 100 yards from a white sand beach.

We have spent today walking (don't die of shock) about 3 miles to a waterfall through rainforest - it was beautiful and although we weren't brave enough to go swimming (there could have been some big fish in there you know - well we saw some little ones - we had a little paddle to cool off.

It is such a contrast from the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. Just to keep you all up to date, our plans have obviously changed and now sit something like this....:

Tomorrow - back to Trat (on mainland near ferry port) and then off to Cambodia to a place called Sihanoukville - there we plan to do our PADI diving here. Then it's the long slog up to Phnom Penh and onto Siem Reap from which we will visit Angkor Wat which will surely be one of the highlights. Back then into Thailand before going up through the north to Chiang Mai (we're going to do a Thai cookery course here hopefully). From here into Laos and onto Vietnam/China.

Budget is going (roughly) to plan although we got a bit fleeced for our hotel here in KC.

Not sure what the internet connections will be like in Cambodia so you might not get an update for a while so for now it's goodbye from Thailand...we'll catch some rays for you!