On Saturday we went to the Full Moon Party. Famous for its large numbers of party goers (90% of them foreigners) and buckets of alcohol - it was an amazing spectacle!! We arrived by ute there at 10pm and there were thousands of people walking around, many in fluoro colours. We immediately got a drink...and headed for the beach. There were like 20 bars all in a row along the beach each playing a different piece of music and selling an array of drinks. You simple pick your potion and they fill the bucket up. With the sea right there many made a dash for the water and to relieve their bladder. In case you were wondering, just about everywhere you go you have to pay to use the labatory. At one stage there was fire on the beach, and i just couldn't let the opportunity to jump fire go by. Dave got a good picture, and sand was in my hair until yesterday (Monday). So after many hours of dancing, walking and scanning the sealine, we headed for home at about 5am. Definitely recommend this night to anyone.
Over the weekend we've been staying on the island of ko phangan mostly just chilling out doing nothing but reading books and shooting around the island on a scooter we hired and poor dane got a little sunburnt and has glowing knees! while the scooter was great to have and very cheap to hire and run we got totally screwed over when we returned it! ALWAYS CHECK FOR SCRATCHES before you take it! for 3 tiny little scratches on 3 panels the guy was trying to make me pay close to 8000 baht like $400. this was this morning at 9am after getting home from a full moon party at 5am and increadably hungover - Dave was not in the mood! it got to the point where Dave was basically yelling at the guy. haha They were both pulling on Dave's passport as he had it for the hire i thought it was going to tear! anyways we ended up paying 5000 baht for the damage as i was a little stuck after reading the fine print over and over but should be able to claim it on insurance. So when i went back to our room to tell dane, who was still in bed and oblivious to it all, he was not happy and was ready to open a can of whip ass. haha it was a great scam and they played their part so well it was a pleasure to watch even if it did cost us several hundred dollars!
We stayed Sunday night at Koh Samui, unfortunately were only able to stay there for 24 hours, and on Monday lunchtime we left for Bangkok (where we are now). After a ferry ride, several hours of waiting around, and a 10 hour bus ride, we arrived in the middle on Bangkok at 5:30am. They literally just drop you off in the middle of streets. Its now 7:30am and we just had subway for breaky and are about to head down the river to some Thai family friends. We plan to stay one ot two nights in Bangkok before heading north, most probably to the bridge over the river quay before making it to Chiang Mai and then on to Laos.
Sorry i haven't had the chance to upload more photos...it takes alot of time on these computers and so will hopefully get a chance to before long. Go the Hurricanes, the Warriors and the mighty Manawatu Jets!!!
Peace to all....
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