So i left you with Kampot for christmas, and went off for my dinner in HCMC with Tran's family with Jaryd, while jamie went to dinner with Geoffrey and Sammy. It was an awesome traditional Vietnamese dinner, including pigs brain! We are now in Nha Trang, and leaving tommorrow to go up to Hoi An. Anyway ill get on with the reporting. Full Moon Party. First of all to get there we had to catch a flight from Phnom Penh, then overnight in Bangkok, get up at 4am, taxi for an hour to the other airport in Bangkok, get a flight down to Surat Thani, get a bus for a couple of hours from Surat Thani to Don Sak pier and then catch a boat from Don Sak to Koh Phangan, which tok about 2 1/2 hours. So it wasnt the closest destination. But the party was worth it. we actually got really lazy with taking photos there, so just some photos of the actual new years party now. Hopefully one of the other J's has some general Koh Phangan photos, I cant remember. ill just rattle through the photos for ya, they kinda speak for themselves, the story of the Full Moon Party.
These are the taxi's everyone uses to get around on Koh Phangan, well the back of one. Taxi is a pretty loose term really as they are just pick up trucks with wooden plank seats in the back.
.When you arrve to Haad Rin, or the party beach, this is what you are greeted with, masses of people, loud music and countless rows of shacks selling cheap buckets 
Did I mention heaps of people?
So the first stop is to get a bucket of cheap whiskey and redbull for about 3usd. These keep you going but areterribly difficult to dance with.
Then its pretty much party hard till the early hours, moving from beach bar to beach bar, each blasting its own musical genre out into the sand. Do the fire limbo. Meet tons of people and have a good time. You have to be careful though, you are accosted by prostitues and drugdealers. I even had someone elses wallet put into my pocket just after the countdown. We were wise enough by now to know that these things could happen, so we stayed clear of it all!
This is a really small example of the carnage you can see at the end of the night. Imagine people like tis, lying on the ground, but along a whole 2km of beach front. Gotta love the grit of the night on the camera lense too. However we made it home fine with no worries or dramas, leaving the beach at about 5m and getting back to the hotel just after dawn. Good times.
Sweet as guys, im off to catch some sun at the beach.JB
this is the most renowned building of the hill staion, which was a casino and hotel.
The old church, very creepy at night.
Exploring old random building off the beaten path, had to kind of make our own path a little bit, which was a bit sketchy as we new this place had seen strong warfare and therefore mines. but we survived, i think the risk was very low so dont panic mum and dad.
These were our digs for christmas eve at the rangers station. We were the only people there who spoke english. Good fun.
After coming back down to Kampot town with the rangers, we hopped on a sunset cruise, then managed to find a place on the riverfront run by a kiwi that was doing a propper xmas dinner. Glazed ham, roast turkey, roast veggies, stuffing, gravy, apple pie, everything we could have asked for they had. We really couldnt have asked for a better xmas dinner, we were by the river, there was live acoustic guitar, and the traffic lazily drove past.
First of all, this photo is at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, i don tknow if it goet put up before or not. Im putting it up there because any of us who know jamie stuart will laugh at this photo which he is in. 3 times. As if once wasnt enough.
we rented bikes and went out to the mangrove forest walk, which as you can see was really beautiful. We managed to get hold of some ice block sticks like you used to get from dairies in NZ to battle the heat, and there were no accidents on the bikes either! Even Jarryd came out of the bumpy dirt roads unscathed. We then biked out of town to the main waterfall in Koh Krong province. We went for a swin there, although it was pretty hairy getting accross the slippery rocks. After not hurting himself on the bikes all day, jarryd feel and hammered his leg crossing the river, and the second photo is of jamie collecting his shoes after he dropped them in the river after slipping. We nearly lost them down the waterfall but jamie managed to pull of a full on rescue. 
We drove back into town to the big resort, were told that to use the massive pool there would cost 8usd each and though F that we'll just go to the beach instead. Despite it being sunset time the water was warm, and the sunset wasnt bad either.
The next day we had booked a full day tour out to Koh Kong Island, but woke up at 6 30am to find that it was pissing down with rain, so we just chilled around town, updated the blog, then moved onto Sihanoukville.
The picture above is where we stayed in Sihanouk. Monkey Republic. 3USD a night each and about 2min from the beachfront.
