Koh Samui to Koh Phangan
8th May
We got picked up at 9.20 to get the ferry across to Koh Pangan. The pier was an old rickety pier, very rusty at the end. Not the safest thing that you have to walk down. The ferry journey took us about 30mins, which wasn’t too bad. We had booked our accomodation for Koh Pangan because of the Full Moon Party. A lot of places will only let you book a minimum of about a week. We booked into a place where Hannah and Rev had booked. It wasn’t as glamorous as it looked on the internet but all websites glorify the pics. The tiny little bungalow didn’t have air con, just a fan. It was cooler outside the room than in it, the room at night got up to 30degrees! There was a nice pool though and it was right on the beach.
There was a bar on the beach which 3blokes live at. They did a fire show at night. Was really good, a bit of entertainment as we didn’t have a tv in this room. Very basic.
9th May
This was the day of the Full Moon Party. We had a quiet day by the pool. We met lots of other English people, which was good. A nice group of people. At about 5ish most people went back to their rooms to refuel ready for a long night of partying. I had really bad ear ache this day so I went back to bed, Elliott couldn’t sleep in the heat, so he stayed at the bar getting a head start on everyone. When we were all up there was a group of english girls ody painting everyone. We all participated being decorated! Elliott had some good side burns and tash. Very funny!
The place we were staying arranged travel to get to Haad Rin where the party was. About 16 of us piled into a tiny little mini bus. In Koh Phangan its extremley hilly. To get up the hills you have to crawl up them, the car feels like its going to stop and you’d be stuck on this hill or going backwards. Scary. So you can imagine me worrying that this mini bus is never going to make it up these hills! It did of course.
The party is on a beach called Sunrise Beach, we literally turned a corner and there was about 10,000 people partying on the beach, crazy!
We got our buckets to drink from and started to walk down the beach. Buckets are what you drink from. We had one with Thai whiskey (Samsong) Coke and Red Bull. It was lovely, so strong though.
On the beach there are different bars, all playing different music. It was brilliant.
Now the toilet situation was quite difficult here, it turned out the sea was the cleanest place to go!
We partied till 6am, got something to eat and lost everyone we were with, so decided to go home. We thought we’d done quite well staying out that late. The next morning we found out some people didn’t get back till 10.30am and they watched the sunrise. We weren’t that hard core. lol.
It was a brilliant night, we would def recommend that everyone does a full moon party, we would go back for one!
10th May
After getting 4hours sleep we were in the pool, the sauna was too hot to sleep in! Early in the morning we had been woken by someone turning the door handle, trying to get into our room. Strange, probably someone crawling back from the party, thinking it was their room. There was only one other girl in the pool and a Thai man walking around. The Thai man we had never seen around before. He kept asking us questions, he was a bit of a shady character. He tried to walk off in Elliotts flip flops (he didn’t have any shoes) They were far too big from him. He asked me what room number we were, I played dumb and said I couldn’t remember. I thought this was a bit strange. I thought he was keeping us busy while someone was rummaging through our room. We didn’t have any valuables in there, so it wouldn’t have mattered too much. He walked off so I said to Elliott that I’d check the room. The room was fine but as I turned around he was stood about 5meters away behind a bush smiling at me! This freaked me out, he was practically blocking my path aswell so I just locked myself in the room. I didn’t have a clue what to do. About 1min later there was a knock at the door, I was worried it was him, but I opened it and it was Elliott. He saw the bloke start to follow me. There was no sign of him after and we never saw him again. Very bizarre!
It was a very chilled out day, Elliott was feeling too rough and lazy and ended up burning because he couldn’t be bothered to pur on sun cream, tut tut.
We went out for dinner that night with 6others, it was their night. So we thought we’d see them off.
Weather was amazing on Koh Phangan, although we did have a few storms.
More to come about the moped we hired!!!
