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THE EAST COAST

Asia’s Favourite Playground

collection of orchids and palms. The village also thick jungle provide a perfect setting for mountain
stages daily cultural and elephant shows. Chonburi biking, trekking and camping. MICE travellers can
itself is a rapidly industrialising province due to the visit one of the island’s four elephant camps that
government’s Eastern Seaboard Development Project, offer elephant rides and elephant bathing. The most
and many multinational and local companies have set populated part of the island is the pristine Hat Sai
up manufacturing plants in its industrial zones. Khao, or White Sand Beach, where many hotels and
dining and entertainment venues can be found.
Moving further east is Rayong—a province of fruit
orchards and quiet beaches. Visitors here often
continue on to Samet Island, with its white sandy
beaches and clear turquoise-coloured water. The
island has developed at a rapid pace in the past
decade and now boasts accommodation of all kinds
along its undulating coastline.

Another renowned off-shore attraction is Mu Koh
Chang National Park which comprises more than
50 islands, including Koh Chang itself. The recent
opening of an airport in Trat province, which the island
is part of, makes it even easier to reach Koh Chang.
Development on Koh Chang has been relatively slow
and careful, so the island has retained an air of a
remote tropical island. Its mountainous interior and
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