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Had a bit of an early start as we were off to Koh Chang. The original group was just going to be 5 or so of us, in the end it turned into a huge group who headed off. Before we even got to the station, we managed to loose a whole group of people - their cab drivers took them to the wrong station!
The bus journey itself was pretty easy - it was a nice smooth ride with no issues. We got to Koh Chang pier - we all started to have second thoughts about the boat over - it resembled a fishing boat - the type that the lonely planet warn you about and advise you not to go on! It was suprisingly quite ok, didn't feel sick at all on it and went very smoothly.
Once we got to the island, we had a couple of issues getting the taxis to where we were going to stay. When I say we had issues getting a taxi, they weren't really taxi's - they were pick up trucks with the word taxi on it!
Got to the Magic Garden - and it indeed was magical - within two minutes of being there I was bitten 5 times by the mosquitos. We booked in for a night, just so we could sleep there as we were all pretty tired by then. I checked my room out and soon discovered that there was no roof over the bathroom! Was very interesting there to say the least.
We had some dinner, then went off to find somewhere that was showing the football. After we finished the footie, we decided that it would be a really good idea to try and walk along the beach. Luckily some locals saw us before we got to the beach and told us that the beach had some snakes and scorpions on it, so it was advisable not to go there! We instead found a really cool bar which had decking out over the sea - it was very chilled out and we sat listening to the waves whilst watching a thunder storm.
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