We began our trip to the infamous full moon party
With a nice flight from BKK to Surat Thani. The cheapest airport closest to Kho Pengang (KP the island where full moon party is). We knew we'd be taking the night boat from Surat Thani to KP but were unsure of it's conditions... We saw beds from afar and were excited! Yippie! But when we got on the boat all that was left was bamboo mats on the lower level, awesome. So we left our backpacks there and went out to grab a beer before the boat departed. Lucky for us, when we got back on the boat for out departure, our awesome bamboo mat beds had been taken over by hordes of pineapples... Needless to say the 3 of us attempted perhaps the most uncomfortable 5 hours of sleep ever.
Ok soo we got to KP at 6am and took a nap... We woke up and realized how beautiful the beach was by our bungalow and layed out all day staring at Koh Samui's mountains (neighboring island) in the distance. 
Watched an amazing sunset...
then the partying began...
We went to Hat Rin the main beach ate dinner on the beach and drank buckets... Vodka & red bull in a bucket, very healthy! After we went to a pool party where everyone was dancing on the tables, in the pool, everywhere! Some were swimming in the ocean this lasted almost until sunrise...
The next day we took a stupidly crowded boat tour around the island. The best part was the sunshower at the end and this gorgeous rainbow crossing the island.
We went to Hat Rin the main beach ate dinner on the beach and drank buckets... Vodka & red bull in a bucket, very healthy! After we went to a pool party where everyone was dancing on the tables, in the pool, everywhere! Some were swimming in the ocean this lasted almost until sunrise...
The next day we took a stupidly crowded boat tour around the island. The best part was the sunshower at the end and this gorgeous rainbow crossing the island.
That night was the real full moon party. So here's a bit of a play by play:
9pm get to the massive beach where everyone is drinking buckets, watching fire twirlers
9:30 go to this bar on the top of a hill overlooking the beach, dance with crazy people from all over the world10:30 decide it's time to get painted, we all get glow in the dark body paint, Christy got a flower, Nichole a lizard, me a Brazilian flag
11:00 we watch the fire dancers, our friend suddenly shows us by randomly stepping into the middle of the crowd, that he can fire twirl too (he's the only white guy doing this)
11:30 watch crazy people climb up this huge metal tower and dance... Highly safe!
12 socialize/dance party on the beach with more crazies from all over
1am make it back to the first bar we went too that overlooked the party
2am dance on the beach
3am dance at a bar
4am dance on the beach... Pattern continues until we all go home near sunrise... What a night!
Sunday we miss the ferry to Surat Tani but lucky for us (completely joking here...) we began our miserable journey back to Bangkok.
1 hour ferry to koh samui (this ferry was packed... people were laying everywhere bc there were no seats) 1 hour cab ride to another dock on samui, 3 hour ferry back to Surat Tani, 1 hour cab ride to airport, barely make our 1 hour flight and finally cab back home, whew!!!
But the full moon party was pretty awesome and we all had a great time, something to cross off the bucket list :)- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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