I think upon our arrival we proved what seasoned travelers we are now. Whilst everyone else was frantically running around searching for accommodation Alex and I decided to get some food and then leisurely took a stroll and managed to find the cheapest accommodation on the entire of Haad Rin beach (where the full moon party happens) and it came with a free hammock.
We spent the next couple of days on lying on the beach, inventing a new sport called "Alex and Tom's beach tennis", disturbing other people with our poorly aimed frisbee throws and generally relaxing. In the area there was an abundance of bars and restaurants that play friends all day (you thought e4 was bad) which originally we mocked but soon found ourselves strangely drawn to not mentioning an awesome falafal joint.
The night life on Ko Pha Ngan is something special. You start out with a couple of drinks in a bar before heading down to the beach to drink whiskey buckets. The leading entertainment, aside from the music is to watch thai men playing with fire in different ways the most intresting of which is a rope swing which tourists leap over until the eventually get hit by a flaming rope. We gave it a miss ourselves...
The climax of the weeks fun was the Full Moon Party on thursday. Early in the day the multiple bars and resorts along the beach begin erecting stages and dance floors in preperation for the evening. The party technically begins at about 5pm when the music starts but it's not until about 10.30-11 when everyone is suitibly drunk, suitibly painted in glow amd the moon comes up that the real fun begins. Alex and I spent most of the evening with Mark and Owen who we'd met on the beach a couple of days before. Eventually, well after the sun rises, the party begins to wind down and the last few ravers stumble back to their guest houses.
Too soon the party was over and we were making our way to Thong Sala port to go to Ko Tao
Tom
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