Koh Pha-Ngan, Thailand Travel Blogs

Thailand from top to bottom........
Sep 15, 2003 (16 photos)

... friendly place in Lamai & Chaweng. Get the 1.00pm boat and hit a storm during the one hour journey, so arrive on Kho Pha Ngan soaked! Get a pickup to our accommodation "Booms Cafe". Eat there, L finds a snake in the toilet, then watch "Grease" and ...

Waxing Gibbous (not quite Full Moon) Party Beach
Aug 11, 2003

As I continue to island hop up the east coast of Thailand I found myself at Had Rin beach on Koh Pha-Ngan today. The transfer up from Koh Samui was painless enough; 10 minute/50B ride to Big Buddha Pier followed by a 1 hour/100B boat journey to Had Rin ...

Hippo takes over the world (well Asia anyway)
Oct 21, 2004 (3 photos)

... sat motionless not saying a word. We took this as guilt and dropped the subject. But, when we returned from the beach one day in Koh Pha-gan we found him sat on the porch in the hammock counting his money !!! We have told him that if he is not prepared to ...

Your life is a sham when you're in Koh Pha Ngan
Apr 23, 2006 (29 photos)

... . So after drying off my clothes and washing off my face I was on a night train to Surat Thani, the mainland town nearest Koh Pha Ngan. Because I bought the ticket last second I was on a train that not only got me in at the ungodly hour of 4:30 I also ...

Partying and paradise on Koh Pha-Ngan
Dec 25, 2004 (7 photos)

... to Cambodia we went back to Thailand to meet our friend Andy in Bangkok. We decided to head straight to an island and chose Koh Pha-Ngan because of the forthcoming full moon party plus we thought it would be a cool place to spend Xmas. Koh Pha-Ngan is ...

Ao Ton Sai & Koh Pha Ngan - Day 68
May 1, 2008

... 2 boats, 2 taxis and 2 buses and used my legs occasionally. After 9 hours on the road I arrived on the island of Ko Pha Ngan. I'm staying in a bungalow on Hat Yao beach, which is on the west coast. It's not bad accommodation but I prefer my forest hut in ...

Koh Pha Ngan - Day 69-73
May 2, 2008 (1 photos)

... doing and just listened. I know nothing about opera, but his voice is defiantly something special and he's destroying himself on Ko Pha Ngan. Don't think I've ever really been touched by a voice before like I have been this evening. Amazing! Day 70 - ...

Sand, sick, cold showers and no electricity
Sep 19, 2003 (20 photos)

... we didnt really care as long as we could get a hot shower and a decent nights sleep. We left Haad Rin in Koh Pha Ngan on Thursday 12th September and had the bumpiest journey ever to Thong Nai Pan beach on the east coast where Janines friends were ...

Tidal wave in South Asia
Dec 28, 2004 (4 photos)

... news and seeing the amount of confirmed dead go up and up we soon realised just how awful it was. We only decided to come to Koh Pha-Ngan at the last minute but could just as easily have decided to go to the islands in the west. Due to the fact that ...

Long bus journeys and bad weather
Sep 10, 2003 (6 photos)

... then were told we had to wait till 8am for another bus to come and get us to take us to the ferry. We eventually got to Koh Pha Ngan around 12:30 but I suppose you cant really complain for 400B. We were told that the main area of the island, Had Rin was ...

Full Moon Party
Sep 11, 2003 (10 photos)

Thursday 11th September... Went on a boat trip around the island yesterday. Well, it was supposed to be around the island but we didnt get very far cos the weather was so bad! We wet first to a waterfall in a national park which was nice. Most ...

Back "home" - Koh Pha Ngan
Nov 30, 2004 (3 photos)

The next day we left Koh Phi Phi for Koh Phangan. We felt as though we had done what we had came to do. We did the same boat-bus-boat trip and arrived 'home' after another long day. A Thai man with a book of photographs approached us on the boat and ...

Last night in Thailand
Aug 26, 2004 (4 photos)

... , Malaysia. The last 4 nights have been spent in a beach bungalow on a small island just off the east coast of Thailand called Koh Pha Ngan. The beach was the best beach I've ever seen - clear water, nice sandy beaches and blue skies...Paradise! At ...

Full Moon Party!
Mar 19, 2003 (3 photos)

... the staff member that I was fine, and to get lost. Anyhow, after the obligatory questions - 'where you from', 'how long you in Thailand', bla bla bla, this fellow proceeded to tell me his life story. I don't know why it is that people tend to do this, but ...

Koh Pha Ngan
Oct 7, 2006 (4 photos)

... Mate if ye kept going like that mate you'd have hit Whale Island mate". Never mind Whale Island. I was headed for Weymouth. Pillock. Thailand has been wicked, the beaches are amazing, and Bangkok is, well bent. I will go to Satun for one final night in ...

Happy Songkran!
Apr 14, 2006 (3 photos)

... up to the rail and pours a bucket of water down the woman's shirt. The same celebration happened all across Thailand yesterday, and we were told Koh Pha Ngan (the island we're still on) is one of the tamer places to celebrate. We're said it numerous ...

Ferry to Koh Pha-Ngan
May 16, 2004 (6 photos)

Ferry stopped at beautiful Koh Samui before arriving Koh Pha-Ngan. This tiny island is almost exclusively open to scuba divers "in the know" from what I was told during peak months. Luckily we had met Dennis who led us to this treasure of an island. ...

Doin' the yoga...
Jan 19, 2007 (3 photos)

So, I made it to Had Tien.  What a beautiful bay!  Isolated from the full moon party madness (as there is actually a "full moon" party every weekend...) of Had Rin.  The Sanctuary is a lovely resort (and by resort I mean they have accommodations that range ...

Spiraling in to madness...
Feb 3, 2007 (16 photos)

Woke up this morning around 6am, met a friend of mine about 7am and took a crazy boat ride to an even crazier scene: the after party (more aftermath really) for the Full Moon party.  What a depressing scene, amazing and disgusting and beautiful at ...

Strikes and Gutters
Apr 16, 2007 (7 photos)

... twisted" means you are wasted.  One interesting mix of the two languages is "super mow", another reference to drunkenness. 3.  Thailand has an annual New Year festival called Songkran, which is a 3-day event that, this year, fell on April 12- ...

Lazy days in Koh Pha-Ngan
Nov 24, 2006 (5 photos)

... the east of the island) are terrible, with concrete falling away from the edges. 10 years ago only a handful of cars inhabited Koh Pha-Ngan, now everyone seems to own one. We set off and soon realise we are in for a serious ride, which will see us cover ...

Ban Tai - Tales of Emerald Ocean
Jun 10, 2009 (5 photos)

... while we planned on a trip to the north of Thailand. There was talk of meeting up with Sarah, Emma and James later on. Koh Pha Ngan was a perfect two weeks. We left in high spirits, ready to see a different side of Thailand, maybe not so crazy as island ...

Welcome to Haad Rin - Home of the Full Moon Party!
May 10, 2009 (26 photos)

Hello everyone! It's only taken us one week on the beautiful island of Koh Pha Ngan to settle into a relaxed, beach lifestyle. After a sun-deprived winter in Montreal, we decided to overcompensate by spending every single day (and night in ...

koh pha ngan - the deserted party island
Aug 6, 2007

hello everyone, mel here first of all........ the temperature here is getting hotter and hotter and i am boiling over, and fed up of my being only beige next to jose's poo brown colour :( my skin just don't like the sun ... we left our orid\ginal hotel ...

full moon a party (in a sing song voice)
Nov 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... to the full moon party) to the docks, then we got a ferry over to the party island (Im not making things up here) of Koh Pha Ngan. It was a long day.. I hadnt changed my cellphone (watch) to thai time, so was still running on China time, got up and did ...

FULL MOOON!!!
Feb 2, 2007 (8 photos)

... the sun came up, then danced in the sun, drank mushroom shakes, lost our shoes and even made it to the Back Yard until the afternoon! Loved it Not sure if i could do it again..your only young once!.. Koh Tao and relaxation is definitely calling.

Koh Fan Yang
Jan 11, 2007 (23 photos)

... point, there really was no decision. After countless recommendations from trusted travelers and friends, we made a bee line for Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand. It would turn out to be the best decision of our trip thus far.   Somewhere off the ...

Robbery and the full moon party
Jun 4, 2007 (5 photos)

... so sad though as I never really used it.  The boat was a fairly pleasant 3 ish hour ride to the island of Koh Pha Ngan.  I got myself a seat right at the front of the boat and did some sunbathing to pass the time.  Arrival on the island ...

The epic Full Moon Party
May 14, 2009 (17 photos)

... soon enough, their epic birthday parties became known internationally as the Full Moon Party, putting the small island of Koh Phang Nan, Thailand, on the map for any traveling party person. The Full Moon Party was similar to a carnival, but ...

island fever...
Dec 30, 2003 (2 photos)

... more parties as authentically Thai. I was amased at how many people came to Asia for this kind of experience alone though. Thailand's islands and beaches and the type of holidays Westerners have there have certainly become a bit of a phenomenon. Though I ...