Koh Phangan/ Full Moon Party

Hey all,

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