Hi Everyone,
So we arrived safely in Thailand and spent the first night in Bangkok. Craig (Si's dad) was kind enough to put us all up at the Hilton for the night as he had extra loyalty points - thanks a lot for that Craig it is an awesome hotel.
We spent the saturday evening seeing a bit of Bangkok centre itself, it is a pretty crazy place, full of life and incredibly busy but the Thai people were all very welcoming to tourists so in no way unpleasant. We checked out MBK - the giant indoor market place where you can pretty much get anything you need ever and picked up a few items - one of which is this camera with flowers on the front of it called Brica (not the most heterosexual purchase but we all agree she has a lot of character!)
Other than that we went to Koh saun road - the main party strip in Bangkok where all the travellers go and had a good time checking out the bars and restaurants there. The next day we hopped on a plane from Bangkok to Koh Samui in order to make it to the world famous full moon party. Once in Samui we got on a ferry and arrived in Koh Pan Yang - they are pretty close to one another so taking the flight and ferry was a better option than taking a 16 hour bus journey to get there even if a little more expensive.
Koh Pan Yang was awesome - we arrived there and everyone was getting ready for the night ahead, but we honestly had no clue what to expect. The night itself was pretty crazy - the party is based on a huge beach where there must have been about 10-20 bars in which people go to dance outside of including performers dancing with fire amongst other things.. We estimate there must have been about 5-10 thousand people on this beach the majority of who were Westerners but there were also your fair share of Thai and amongst them the infamous ladyboys.. Luckily we didn't have too much of a run in with any of them. We somehow met up with a number of friends from uni which was very unexpected but a really nice surprise. The party lasted until 11am the next day but the three of us called it a day/evening around 9am at which we were pretty knackered from dancing all night in front of a massive full moon. We took loads of pictures so will look to have them up at some point and they should help to explain the atmosphere as it was really something special, easily the greatest party we've ever been too. Also thankfully everything went really smoothly - none of us lost anything or got into any trouble which was a contrast to some of the stories that arise after events like this. Anyway after that we had another night in Haad Rin (the town where the party takes place) before heading to the port or Thang Sala where we are staying tonight on a really cool beach bungalow.. Tomorrow we will be heading to Koh Tao (a bit more of a chilled out island not far from Koh Pan Yang) where we will take it easy and have a bit of a beach holiday (tough life!)
Ok well we will try and update this with maybe more but shorter messages in the future as the last few days have been pretty hectic and there has been lots going on so am sure have missed out on loads of the details..
Take care and will speak soon
Love
Mark Jub and Si
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