Chai Chet - Sawadee Koh Chang - Sawadee Koh Chang © 2019

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Chai Chet is located between White Sand Beach and Klong Prao. Some people are calling it Chai Chet beach and others like me calls it the north part of the long Klong Prao beach.

In Chai Chet village, there are a lot of shops along the main road. You can find 3 different supermarkets (Tesco Lotus, 7/11 and V-Mart) as well as cloth shops, drugstores, tailors, restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, ATMs and a bank where you can change money and a good hostel named The Habitat Hostel.
In the evening vendors come to install their stalls to sell street foods. There are very good and cheap chicken kebabs, different kind of Thai food, grilled fishes and meats, fruits and the delicious pancakes (see video at the end of the page).

The road in front of 7/11 supermarket is going to VJ Plaza where there are few restaurants. Coconut Plaza which is in the corner of Tesco Lotus is quieter with a couple of restaurants like Abella Cuisine that I really recommend, a Tour Agency which is also renting bicycles, The Malibu Bar playing only Bob Marley songs, a coffee shop and few massage rooms.

Chai Chet cape is famous for its viewpoint from where you can take very nice sunset pictures. To reach this place, go to Chai Chet Resort and walk through the bungalows until the end of the walking path. Then you will see a small indication and old wooden ladders to climb to the top of the cliff.

My favourite place to take sunset pictures is a bit before the viewpoint, just in front of the sea view bungalows of Chai Chet Resort. There are trees and few chairs. You can maybe get better shots from there and most of the time there is nobody, opposite of the viewpoint which can be crowded.

Opposite side of the viewpoint there is a small wooden pier. Nothing extraordinary except that you have a full view on Klong Prao beach. Because it's a fishes sanctuary, fishing is forbidden but you can sit and look at all the fishes.

There are lots of resorts in Chai Chet, for all types of budgets and tastes. In the village and on the hillside is located Thai Garden Hill Resort, at 300 meters from the beach but with a very nice swimming pool.
Chai Chet Resort is at less than 2 minutes walk from the sandy beach but their swimming-pool is also very nice. Coconut Beach Resort has bungalows and hotel's rooms. Their swimming-pool is quite small but they have a beach front.
Koh Chang Paradise Resort & Spa is my favourite with their 260 meters beach front, the bungalows, the swimming-pool right in front of the beach and the beautiful private Pool-Villas.
Then there is Koh Chang Resort, a bit outdated, Flora i Talay Resort with their beachfront too and their recent bungalows and to end with Pajamas Koh Chang Hostel with private and dormitory rooms.

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People watching the sunset from the view point

View of Klong Prao beach from Chai Chet cape

Mobile food sellers in front of Chai Chet bank

(44 pictures in the gallery in a random order)

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