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Ko Phangan Slideshow
Ko Phangan
Travel Blogs from Ko Phangan, Thailand
Lazing in my hammock
This is a top pick! Today was a bit of a weird day really, dominated entirely by the weather. When I woke up it was sunny so I started walking to the beach. When I got within 100 yards however the heavens opened and I would have to trudge back to my hut disappointed. This ...
Still bloody raining!
This is a top pick! Today was my fourth day here and I'm starting to go stir crazy already. I just can't adjust to doing nothing having been so active for nearly 4 months. I mean there is nothing to do here! Sure there the beach, but it isn't exactly the nicest in the ...
Boxing and beach parties
This is a top pick! Treated myself to a bit of a lie in today, well as long as physically possible in my shed which double as a sauna by midday. Cold shower later and I was ready to go. Decided to give Cafe Hiatus one last chance to redeem itself after the Christmas Day ...
Still in bloody Koh Phangan!
This is a top pick! Woke up around midday and headed straight to an Internet cafe. Thought I'd check my emails and write a bit of my diary. I was about to leave when I said to myself, "enough is enough" and promptly sat myself down and booked my ticket off the hell off the ...
Get me out of here!!
This is a top pick! Awoken at 10am after only 3 hours sleep by my neighbours playing their music at extremely high decibels. I was also sweating like a pig! I had become so pissed off with being constantly bitten by mosquitoes that I decided to try sleeping in my sleeping ...
NYE Party
This is a top pick! Having had a relatively early night I woke up early at 10am. Paid for my shack for the last time and went in search of breakfast. The restaurant was showing King Kong again but I still decided to eat there as their chicken sandwiches are good. Spotted ...
Island Paradise
This is a top pick! ... on my sleep, plan some of the next leg of our trip and let my body detox. The full moon party is on tonight over on Koh Phangan so we're getting the speed boat over to check it out - it should be quite an experience. Will let you know how it goes in ...
Paddling Pool
This is a top pick! Having convinced Jo to start at 9am today rather than 8:30am (every little helps) we were joined by 2 more today, Emily from Hong Kong and Mathews from Germany. Today we would all spend a few hours getting pruned in the pool, but remembering to visit ...
Avoiding a Ko Phangan Tattoo
This is a top pick! ... having 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 ...
Searching for Sharks
This is a top pick! One more early start for the dive today but necessary to return to the same spot as yesterday's first dive where there is the best chance of seeing some sharks. But then they said that yesterday. There was only myself and the instructor Aaron on the ...
Traveling With the Only Person Lazier Than Me
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Two sides of Ko Pha-Ngan
This is a top pick! ... and the little sister of the more well know Ko Sumui and is situated 45 minutes north of Ko Sumui by ferry. Koh Phangan like Ko Samui still has all the beautiful beaches and scenery but typically catered for the backpacker market where Ko Sumui is a ...
Koh Tao 1: The Case of the Scuba God
This is a top pick! ... and wore a hat to protect his balding head from the sun. But as our dive instructor at Ban's Diving on Koh Tao, Thailand, Anthony Griffith's boisterous nature and brimming confidence had a calming effect on his latest group of disciples. His reams of ...
Jim and Jane on a motorbike (CONTAINS VIDEO)
This is a top pick! Our stomachs awake fully recovered from yesterday's trials and tribulations, and we have one sunny day to explore this exotic island. Despite an increase in tourism over recent years, Koh Tao still feels undiscovered. There are no highrise ...
The Perfect Party - Buckets of Joy
This is a top pick! ... , although there had to have been still 5000 (very messy) people still on the beach it was time for an hour taxi home - would have been nice if the bloke didnt drop the three of us 15km from our bungalows! Dont worry mum hitch hiking in Thailand is ...
Party Time
This is a top pick! ... bread and watermelon shake which made me feel far better. Today was absolutely boiling! One of the hottest days I have experienced in Thailand so far so I decided to stay in the shade as much as possible to avoid severe burning. We headed for Leela ...
Bottle Beach 2
This is a top pick! 2008 is moving far too quickly for me for I know that my time is short here in Thailand. I arrived in Aug 2006 just before the military coup that deposed the corrupt Prime Minister Thaksin who was also responsible for the idiotic 90 days out of every 6 ...
Koh Tao 2: Tattoos and White-Knuckle Trips
This is a top pick! ... adventurous to explore the island. The apparent dangers of driving these roads are underlined in the Lonely Planet guide to Thailand, but something is obviously lost in the translation to farang (what Thais call westerners) because most people try their ...
Lazin' away on the beach all day
This is a top pick! ... because we haven't been doing much for a while. We came to Ko Pha-ngan, a small island off the east coast of peninsular Thailand, in the gulf of Thailand. This island is known for being one of the last remaining backpackers' paradises, one that has not ...
Beaches, buckets and friends!!
This is a top pick! ... sarah (his girlfriend) and becky (our bestist friend) in bangkok on 23rd and got a night bus south and boat across to ko phangan. within ten minutes of them all arriving it felt like they had been travelling with us for the whole time! felt sorry ...
Learning to Dive the Easy Divers way
This is a top pick! Day 1. As we step of the catamaran Andréa is waiting on the pier for us. She asks how the visa run went and wasn't surprised to hear our hellish tale then asks if we are up to watching the video at 4pm, I reluctantly say yes. We fill in forms and ...
Waiting for the party to start
This is a top pick! ... much fun! Carried on trying for an hour or so longer and Julia was just about ready to go back to Samui and leave Thailand a few days earlier than planned when she got a call from Lucy saying she had arrived. Just when they were contemplating heading ...
FULL MOON PARTY
This is a top pick! ... and a bottle of Red Bull. It packs a big hit. Then it was onto the Big Changs. This was our favourite beer in Thailand and we polished off more than our fair share. We left the Aussie couple and headed to the black-light painting stations. I got ...
Paradise Found
This is a top pick! ... ! 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 ...
Scuba School
This is a top pick! ... 2 hours as well as nearly bringing back the breakfast of most on board as it rocked and swayed it's way across the Gulf of Thailand as I, in another remarkable feat, slept some more. Arriving in Koh Tao bright eyed and bushy tailed I was keen to get ...
Full Moon Party
This is a top pick! So during the day we headed out to get our "full moon gear" we decided that if you cant beat em join em - so being somewhat of the "oldest" people we figured we can at least blend in with the young ones haha. We headed down to our friends to get ...
Luxury Beach Hut in Koh Phangan
This is a top pick! ... it was a mad rush to get us off the bus to get onto the ferry in time! We made it and 2.5 hours later we arrived at Ko Phangan and our wee pick up guy was waiting for us with a sign with my name on it We had treated ourselves for our ...
Tidal wave in South Asia
This is a top pick! ... to go to the islands in the west. Due to the fact that travellers in the mainland will only be coming to this side of Thailand eveything is now all booked up, including transport, rooms, etc. So it looks like we'll be on this island for another week ...
Sex, Drugs n Lunar Cycles
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...