Ko Phangan, Thailand Travel Blogs

Day 87: Full Moon Party
Aug 17, 2008 (21 photos)

... in a positive light no matter how grueling it seems at the time, because ya know, it's not every day y one gets to visit Thailand (or Vietnam, or Cambodia, or Indonesia, or Nepal...) We made good time in arriving on Ko Pha-Ngan, with a decent chunk of ...

Day 88, Pt.1: The Aftermath
Aug 17, 2008 (12 photos)

... Beach on Ko Pha-Ngan. We boarded the dangerously crammed 7am ferry too tired to sleep and sailed back to our quiet Lamai Beach bungalow on Ko Samui. ---Vital Signs--- Travel Weariness = 90% Mood = In the Red Time Till Home = 2 Days Pad Thai = Sick Of ...

Living in isolation
Mar 15, 2008 (6 photos)

If my memory serves me correctly, I´m supposed to meet my new "family" bright and early at 11:30am near the Had Rin pier.  I check out and return Limey after a heartfelt good bye spin, and after a short "disagreement" with the rental lady (what a jerk ...

Beach Soccer Tournament
Mar 17, 2008 (2 photos)

I take off with three other "family" members and head towards Samui on a long tail boat.  As we round the tip of Had Rin, I see the beach getting set up for a soccer tournament I had heard about a few days earlier.  I consult the powers that be ...

Everything must come to an end... to Ko Pha Ngan!
Mar 13, 2008 (7 photos)

... the pier just in time to hear that the 45-minute ferry had an hour delay was awesome.  I don't want to leave Ko Tao and momentarily contemplate disregarding my plans and just chilling there for a few weeks, months, years. Ko Pha Ngan!  Home ...

Half Moon Festival
Mar 14, 2008 (12 photos)

... half moon shindig and exciting if not crazy... but the new gov´t has decided to take an even harder stance on drugs and has selected Ko Pha Ngan to start, so the music was shut down at 2 in the morning at which point everyone returned to the beach from the ...

I could get used to this...
Mar 16, 2008 (3 photos)

... well maybe I could live here for a few years!  I wake up to sunrise coming up over the distant horizon and realize that it would be easy for my family to come visit.  I look to the right and see no one.  We´re the only ones who decided ...

Week Twelve - Ko Phangan and Ko Tao
Nov 21, 2003 (13 photos)

... Orr this weeks entry will have less guff from Peter. Up for last bit of sun for Nic and get transfer to catamaran to Ko Phangan at lunchtime. Have booked Long Beach Resort bungalow in North West of island - 600 baht per night. Cheapest room with fan ( ...

A whale shark of a time in Thailand!
Feb 27, 2009 (36 photos)

Ay up! Going to jump straight into it ohhh yarr.... We left Bangkok for the infamous "islands" of Thailand and the infamous lush beaches and parties on said beaches.  Before we left however we said goodbye to Mike (as mentioned in the last blog) ...

Ko Phangan - Booze Life!
Apr 6, 2009 (28 photos)

Having been pleasantly surprised by the trip to Ko Tao it would only be right that the short, no-hassle trip to Ko Phangan would be a waking nightmare. Honestly the catamaran that day witnessed scenes last seen on the Titanic's voyage (people ...

Angthong National Marine Park & Ko Phanghan
Mar 7, 2008 (30 photos)

... trip on Sunday! :) We anchored at Hat Rim, a beach town located on the island's southernmost tip.  Although Ko Phangan was first inhabited by Buddhist monks over 600 years ago because of its tranquility and spiritual importance, the island is now ...

Full Moon Party
Oct 11, 2003 (3 photos)

... this evening we caught a speedboat down to Haad Rin where the FMP takes place. It was a lovely ride round the coast of Ko Phangan with the moon lighting everything up. We eventually rounded a corner and there was Haad Rin Beach. A bay full of bright ...

Lairy life in Laem Son
Jul 28, 2008 (28 photos)

The Police Station Deciding to miss Koh Samui out this time round was an easy decision. In the ever so tiny terms and conditions section of each fast-food promotional ad I read, it stated that none of the amazing meal deals or associated pricing could ...

Paradise Found
Feb 17, 2009 (46 photos)

... ! So it looks like we will have to do a complicated journey to the Burmese border, cross it for about an hour and then come back to Thailand for a new 14day free visa. A lot of trouble and pain, and we met very few tourists who are not angry about it.

Couch Surf Ko Phangan
Feb 24, 2009 (11 photos)

So, having said our goodbyes on Ko Tao, we took a short ferry ride over to Ko Phangan... the Thai island famous for its Full Moon, half moon, black moon etc. parties... Unfortunately we didn't time our trip right for any kind of party...  However, ...

Avoiding a Ko Phangan Tattoo
Mar 16, 2007 (18 photos)

... dinner cooked for us when we wanted. To get around the island we hired motorbikes, therefore the title trying to avoid a ko phangan tattoo....which of course is a scare left from a motorbike crash!!!! Most days we spent chilling at the nearby beech ...

Traveling With the Only Person Lazier Than Me
Jul 8, 2008 (17 photos)

After a week or more in Bangkok, and with a thesis still not done, Danayi and I decided to head to Ko Pha-Ngan, of the famous islands of Thailand, most famous for its full moon parties. We had enjoyed our time in Bangkok, but did little other than the ...

Farewell to Bottle Beach
Jan 8, 2009 (2 photos)

... few days here on Bottle Beach. The sun has finally come out after almost a month straight of cloudy and rainy days on Ko Phangan. From the picture, you can see the monsoon passing over the island and only clear skies ahead. The waves have calmed down ...

Going Back To Thailand
Dec 11, 2008 (3 photos)

... any time there and went straight into the Lomprayah High Speed Cat office to book a trip down to another lesser known island, Ko Phangan. LOL I left Zhongshan at 10 in the morning and didn't arrive in Chaloklum until after 1pm the next day. Yet another ...

Sex, Drugs n Lunar Cycles
Apr 24, 2005 (26 photos)

... beach from my bed, it was very hard to leave yesterday :( This particular beach party was the 20th Anniversary of Full Mooning on Ko Phangan and it promised to be an extremely large one. More disturbingly, there was also word of a bomb attack, and the ...

Bottle Beach Take 3
Dec 27, 2008

This is the 3rd time I've been back to BB in the past 2 years. We thought it would be deserted because the waves were really high and no long tail boats were making the trip around the bend. Joeran had told me that last year's resident Thai version of ...

Full Mooning
Aug 25, 2007 (40 photos)

... partying' at night. First night out was to coral bungalows pool party, which consisted of the necessary requirements of any Ko Phan Ngan party:- water, many drunken people and most importantly the famed alcohol buckets. For anyone not familiar with these, ...

Christmas in Thailand
Dec 25, 2008 (6 photos)

... year with a negative influence on my life so I left her behind to start 2008 anew. Christmas 08, I find myself back in Thailand on Phangan with a couple friends that I met here a couple years ago. On Christmas Eve we went to Cafe Del Mar and had some ...

Aqueous Warfare
Apr 15, 2005 (32 photos)

... early for mooning, we upped sticks and hopped over the gulf to that infamous haven of hedonism - Ko Phangan. Now, today/this week/month (depending where in Thailand you are and how much water they have left) is Songkran, the Buddhist new year. This ...

The Funnel of Fun
Jul 23, 2008 (58 photos)

... bliss. One of the highlights was venturing inland to 'The Waterfall'. I forget the name but it's said that the King of Thailand bathes here, so we did the same and slipped in for a dunk before clambering up the rocks and into the waterfall for a ...

Sacrifice to Poseidon
Dec 30, 2008 (3 photos)

I had been getting a bad Spidey sense feeling about my glasses over the past few weeks. I could sense something wasn't quite right in the universe. On one of the rare days I got out of my hammock, I decided to play some Frisbee on the beach. I thought ...

"Salad Beach Resort"
Mar 29, 2008 (4 photos)

From the pier a 1 hour "fast ferry" to our next stop moving south, the island of Koh Pha-Ngan. Found a great resort from the people at the pier and took a taxi to "Salad Beach Resort" at Haad  Salad cove.

back to the beach!
Apr 18, 2008 (24 photos)

... 't tell you how! I wish we had had time to explore but we got our visas stamped and we hustled back on to the boat and back to Thailand. Not before we had been fleeced out of $30. Our $20 bill we had to pay for the visas in Burma had a tiny red paint mark ...

Cooper & Cooper Teak treaters
Jun 11, 2008 (16 photos)

... and the contract were favorable, and the deal clincher was the welcome news the building site served Earl Grey tea! Back on Ko Phangan we checked into the Blue sea bungalow and after a couple of hours, Harry and his wife Leam pulled up with ...

Ko Phangan
May 29, 2008 (4 photos)

Our first stop in Thailand is the island that has become a rite of passage for almost every English person to visit, Ko Phangan. We take a really expensive taxi (thanks to the taxi mafia on the island) up to the North and checked in to a place on Haad ...