East coast
Thailand's east coast is a five-hundred-kilometre string
of predominantly dull, grey beaches blotched with expensive,
over-packaged family resorts, the largest and most notorious of
which is Pattaya . Offshore, however, it's a different
story: the tiny island of Ko Samet attracts backpackers and
Bangkokians to its pretty white-sand beaches, while travellers with
more time on their hands head east to Ko Chang , a large
forested island close to the Cambodian border. It is now legal to
cross over the border near here.
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