We were the last car allowed on the ferry heading back to Trat. Thank goodness, or else we would have had to wait another hour. Koh Chang was beautiful and the few hours we spent there did not do it any justice. Must definitely return before it turns into Koh Samui, an island further south which is so commercialized and crowded now.

Once on the mainland we took the scenic route back to the Tosang Beach Hotel along the coast. It was a gorgeous drive. One of my uncles is a teacher and loves history. He was telling us about a historic site that was in Chanthaburi called “Khuk Khi Kai” which translates into “Chicken Poop Prison.” It was supposedly on the way back to our hotel so we went on a search for it, might as well. We missed a lot of turns, drove around in circles and asked a lot of people for directions. I had hoped it was going to be something big since we were going to so much trouble to find it, but it was the smallest, almost unnoticeable building. This prison was built in 1893 when the French invaded Chanthaburi. They kept prisoners on the bottom and had chicken coops on the top so the chickens would poop on the prisoners. I couldn’t imagine the smell. It must have been such horrible torture. The building was so small and didn’t seem like a prison at all. We took walked around and took the typical touristy pictures, but even with all this talk of chicken poop, we were getting hungry.

Translations in Asia always make me chuckle