Full Moon Party

The Thais have quite a grasp of the English language

Drunk people saw this as a skipping rope, we saw it as death

Look at Lisa with her bucket

This was our afterparty

The beach in Koh Phangan

Lisa got a butterfly!

Nic got a sun

I got a butterfly too, but clearly mine was better

No wonder we saw so many burns victims the day after

After Chiang Mai we moved to the island of Koh Phangan, famous for its Full Moon Parties! The journey involved 2 planes, one sweaty coach for an hour and an old ferry that surely should have been condemned 10 years ago, which took about 3 hours. We finally got there and we were chucked in amongst the many other travellers heading to the party the next day and shoved in yet another state of the art backless van/cab. After yet another mugging off where the taxi driver tried to drop us far away from the hotel, we arrived ok and spend the next day settling in. The next evening we headed to Haad Rin, where the party takes place. Having seen so many travellers heading to the island that day we were expecting the beach to be rammed and have our heads shoved in sweaty armpits all night long (a bit like a night in Maidstone really), but it was quite the opposite. We could walk up and down the beach alongside all the bars that that situated there playing there own kind of music and offering drinks, and everyone else seemed to be involved in some fire games, where pretty much everything was lit on fire and random drunk people ran through it. Lisa decided to do us proud and buy a 'bucket'. It consists of a 200ml bottle of spirit (vodka was the tipple of her choice) and then filled with a load of orange juice, put inside a sandcastle bucket with a straw! All for about 2quid! And that wasn't even a 'F***ing Big Bucket'. We had a bit of a dance and laughed at all the drunk people and then realised that Lisa was actually quite drunk, and so we went home and Lisa got fruity with the hotel's cat! And the party went on until after the sun came up.....