This past weekend was our program's last free weekend together (since this coming weekend, we have to present our reseach findings, and then our internship program ends the following weekend!), so we again took advantage of our free time to take a trip!
Since we had already explored Thailand's Central, Western, and Northern regions, we decided to venture off to the East, in order to see another thing that we hadn't seen yet in Thailand... its BEACHES!!
To put it mildly, us Californians and Floridians in the group were SUPER excited to finally see ocean shores and catch some sun to help cure our awful tshirt and shorts tans that we've acquired in the intense Bangkok sun rays.
So, anyhow! We went to Koh Chang, which ended up being a 4-hour van ride from Bangkok to Laem Ngop Pier, then a 1/2 hour ferry ride from there to the island!
The way to Koh Chang~ Koh = Island. Chang = Elephant.
After we arrived on the isle, we saw that there was only ONE main road for the isle, windy and whanot... and served only by motorbikes and trucks that had seats in the back of them and acted as the island's taxi/bus service (a flat 50 Baht per person - meh, oh well!). We took this took our cute little hotel, BanPu, that was right on the beach.
Can you see the tiny crab in the bottom photo??! These things were TINY but covered almost the entire beach (if you looked closely!), and were basically putting sand into their mouths, to produce these small little clusters of sand?!? I wonder what the purpose is.. (Marika?? any clue?)
After having some drinks on the beach (Pina Colada in a coconut, mm!!), we took a walk down the beach~
Sorry. Words can't really describe beauty as well as an image, and even so... I feel like these photos don't do it quite justice. It was beautiful.
Had dinner on the beach~* 
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