Koh Phangan, Thailand, 15th to 18th July 2011

When we left Ko Samui we where crammed onto a large catamaran without 200 other people - the weather was fine until we left the port!
All of a sudden the biggest storm came and slowly the sea became rougher and rougher! after about 30 minutes all you could hear was people pushing their way through to the nearest toilet to be sick - and towards the end of the crossing nearly every one's bags that had been neatly stacked on top of each other where all over the place!
Once we where at Thong Sala on Koh Phangan the storm stopped....

The girls where feeling a little worse for wear after that and it didn't get any easier as had a nice 25 minute winding taxi ride through the islands countryside (in case you hadn't guessed or know already the girls suffer from travel sickness). We arrived at our hotel/resort and we where greeted by what I can only describe as a pregnant lady boy!!
Luckily we where right on the beach in a nice little area called Hat Yao and the beach was sheltered by nice rock pools and the water was really clear.
We decided to just chill out on the island and get ready for the full moon party which was on the 17th.

The next day we rented an awesome 4x4 'ute' and went off exploring the island and searching for party gear - after a lot of shopping we where sorted and that evening we headed to an amazing restaurant in Ban Chaloaklam which was Italian but run by Thais - either way it was pretty awesome.

The 17th came and the girls spent the day having their usual massage before we jumped in the taxi and headed to Hat Rin for the full moon party. I have to say i was pleasantly surprised at how much of a good time I/we all had. Luckily we met up with Will and Christian two Aussie guys we met on Samui and 2 other Aussie's who they met on Samui. So we ended up with a nice crowd of people and started on the buckets of Thai whisky (which are lethal!) before Will and I beat everyone at beer pong in a nearby bar. We then spent some time walking up and down the beach enjoying people skipping with giant skipping ropes that where on fire!
We all inevitably got lost but we fortunately found each other later on and headed home.

As you can imagine the next morning was not pretty as we left the resort to get a 4 hour ferry back to Surat Thani where we then had to wait 5 hours for the night train to Bangkok only to find out it was delayed! so we eventually boarded the train at 12.40am and we all passed out...

Next stop Bangkok.

To see our pictures from Koh Phangan please click on the link below;
https://picasaweb.google.com/112941139607408893724/KohPhanganThailand15thTo18thJuly2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCO_z9Yyvl6mC5wE#