After a sunset cruise on Friday night, we left the eco lodge on Saturday and needed to get to Bangkok by Monday to meet up with some friends of Eve's (who are also very kindly putting us up). We thought that would mean a night in a nondescript town on the way, but the guys running the lodge suggested that we should have enough time to spend a night on Koh Chang (an island about 45 mins off the mainland by very slow ferry). The border crossing all went swimmingly, so we were able to get to the island by lunchtime. We shared a taxi from the border to the ferry port with a Swedish couple. He was one of the leading journalists with a Swedish daily newspaper and has also just finished a documentary on one of the Khmer Rouge leaders - the guy who was the respectable head of state which they showed to the world. Sounds all very interesting - it's called Facing Genocide. In line with most of the others, apparently he didn't know what was going on on the ground and therefore is not responsible for it...
It was a cracking idea to spend a night on the island - the interior is a rainforest and the coast has some fine beaches.
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