Our flight to Bangkok from Kathmandu was weird; we flew from Kathmandu to Bahrain then from Bahrain to Bangkok - a nice 5 hour detour. Luckily we were bumped to First Class from Bahrain to Bangkok so that leg was pretty nice! We spent just a couple days in Bangkok sending some stuff home and buying a few small things for the beach (frisbee, etc); then we headed to an island called Koh Chang which is the second largest island in Thailand. It was great to just sit on a white sand beach after 
being above 10,000 feet and we did nothing but relax for a couple days. The first place we stayed, Lonely Beach, was pretty crowded and the beach was not very big - mainly a huge bar scene- so we decided to move further down the island and found a deserted resort, the Grand Lagoona, to stay in for about $70/night. Unfortunately the first night there we dropped our camera into the sand and it busted completely, so we don't have too many pictures of the island. But it really is beautiful with white sand, huge leaning palm tress, signs warning you of coconuts falling, great sunsets, etc. After splurging at the resort for a couple days we went to the West side of the island which is not developed with too many resorts yet. There we rented a scooter, which we wrecked the second day of having it; Ben got scraped up and my knee twisted the complete wrong way. So we spent a lot of time in our little isolated area of the island just eating at the local stalls and fishing off their pier trying to give my knee a rest until I could walk instead of hobble. The food is great, as I am sure you can imagine, and we have fallen in love with papaya salad and Tom Yam. 
Since we were isolated from everything we moved to White Sand Beach for the last 2 days since my knee was still swollen and fairly handicapped from walking really far. White Sand Beach is full of tourist resorts, etc so we choose to eat Western a couple times. Once we found a great Irsh Pub that was awesome but the other was a horrible dinner at a Western Steakhouse; serves us right when we have so much great Thai food around us! All and all we spent about 10 days on Koh Chang just relaxing before getting a bus ride to Cambodia; it was great!
being above 10,000 feet and we did nothing but relax for a couple days. The first place we stayed, Lonely Beach, was pretty crowded and the beach was not very big - mainly a huge bar scene- so we decided to move further down the island and found a deserted resort, the Grand Lagoona, to stay in for about $70/night. Unfortunately the first night there we dropped our camera into the sand and it busted completely, so we don't have too many pictures of the island. But it really is beautiful with white sand, huge leaning palm tress, signs warning you of coconuts falling, great sunsets, etc. After splurging at the resort for a couple days we went to the West side of the island which is not developed with too many resorts yet. There we rented a scooter, which we wrecked the second day of having it; Ben got scraped up and my knee twisted the complete wrong way. So we spent a lot of time in our little isolated area of the island just eating at the local stalls and fishing off their pier trying to give my knee a rest until I could walk instead of hobble. The food is great, as I am sure you can imagine, and we have fallen in love with papaya salad and Tom Yam. 
Since we were isolated from everything we moved to White Sand Beach for the last 2 days since my knee was still swollen and fairly handicapped from walking really far. White Sand Beach is full of tourist resorts, etc so we choose to eat Western a couple times. Once we found a great Irsh Pub that was awesome but the other was a horrible dinner at a Western Steakhouse; serves us right when we have so much great Thai food around us! All and all we spent about 10 days on Koh Chang just relaxing before getting a bus ride to Cambodia; it was great!
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