Jon the Traveller

Despite being on the most developed beach on Ko Chang, White Sands beach, this place is very much a backpacker haunt. Its pretty easy to find, either walk down its track from the main road above the beach, or walk north on White Sands until you get to the rocky headland and it sits right over it.

As far as its facilities go, it has the usual restaurant (pretty decent), common area and tour desk/reception. The rooms/huts are in good condition and the bathrooms are great. The staff really proved themselves helpful when I had my little event, calling the police, getting me a free shake and so on. Totally unexpected.

I cannot really say more as I only spent a night here due to getting robbed.

As mentioned, I headed off to Ko Chang – a great beach island 5 hours east of Bangkok – for some tanning time and general R&R by the sea. However, this dream was destroyed with 2 hours of getting there.

I got robbed.

Yes, robbed. Luckily I only lost actual money and nothing else, unlike other people I have spoken to since, who also experienced theft on Ko Chang in recent weeks. What makes my loss really sting is it was by a fellow backpacker. Admittedly I had only just met him, however I have shared rooms so often on so many trips that it did not even occur to me that this sort of thing could happen to me, despite knowing of times it had been done to others.

So thanks to this I no longer felt able to enjoy Ko Chang, I was looking over my shoulder too often to notice the beauty of where I was. Ko Lanta beckoned me from the other side of the country.