Koh Chang Island, Thailand

Koh Chang is one of Thailand's beautiful islands approximately a four hour car and ferry ride from our home in Pattaya.  Thus we seized the opportunity of the long holiday weekend and went to relax for three days.  It is the countries third largest island behind Phuket (which we visited on one of our first trips as an expat) and Ko Samui.  The name means elephant head given the shape of the island.  It is definitely a mountainous island and is very tropical. We found the water to be very clear and beautiful.  This made morning walks on the white sand beach very relaxing as Cooper searched for shells.  The pictures tell the rest of the story as we relaxed in the pool and even indulged in a few Thai massages.  The end of the trip was even memorable as we got caught is a large ferry traffic jam to leave the island.  Lesson learned to never visit a Thailand Island via ferry over a long weekend, 14 hours to get home (10 hours just waiting for the ferry)!