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Ko Phangan Slideshow
Ko Phangan
Travel Blogs from Ko Phangan, Thailand
The Beach
This is a top pick! ... , on the eastern coast of Kenya along the Indian Ocean, when my mom and brother and I were travelling in Africa. And here in Thailand I'm reminded of that vacation, and the few days we spent in Mombasa. On a boat tour I saw a rather odd couple, an older ...
Riding With A Demon
This is a top pick! I was somewhere off in the shadows, walking barefoot down the street from Game Bar, when the tea kicked in and I felt the first chest-swelling rush of the mushrooms. The beer and weed were long gone now, receding into the distance behind me like the ...
Ko Phangan
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Ko Pha Ngan - Chilling on Bottle Beach
This is a top pick! ... on the island, where the full moon party is held, after that we shall head the short distance across the waters to Ko Samui. Piccies will go on when we find decent priced internet! Hugs Ali n Matt xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
The MotorCycle Diaries
This is a top pick! ... except for popping a sleeping pill 10 minutes before the only scheduled stop - I walked around (and smoked) like a zombie. Boat of to Ko Phan Nang was beautiful, the sun was out, had some tunes playing and had a couple of Chang beers for the journey with ...
Aqueous Warfare
This is a top pick! ... heading 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. ...
Full Mooning
This is a top pick! ... '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 ...
monsoons and beach excursions
This is a top pick! ... ferry to Ko Tao. All in all it was exhausting but manageable aside from the lack of food or water. Ko Tao is the diving epicenter of Thailand and many resorts offer cheap resort rooms to those looking for SSI or PADI certification. We decided to just ...
Naked and Depraved on Thong Nai Pan
This is a top pick! ... Nai Pan it doesn't take much to offend, and I've clearly made an enemy of the otherwise affable Englishman. But in Thailand, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, where the number of female travellers almost rivals that of males, ...
Koh Phanan to explore further
This is a top pick! Koh Phangan 3rd April 2009 So here we are back in Koh Phangan. Why? Well we thought we would give it a more extensive explore this time. The weather in Phuket was cloudy and rather stormy at times and quite often if the weather is bad on the west coast it ...
Party Central
This is a top pick! ... . No matter, we were only on the bus for 3 hours before we were put onto another bigger, slower ferry from Suratthani to Ko Pha-Ngan where I met Morwenna, Claire and Lee on the deck. We all sat around for a bit, reading, chatting, taking tourist ...
The Funnel of Fun
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Back to Pha Ngan, Staying in hell
This is a top pick! ... away the hours. At 7pm they started showing the film, The Beach, and I figured I should watch it again seeing as I was in Thailand and specifically Koh Pha Ngan. Koh Pha Ngan is depicted as the booze filled hell hole it is but slightly exaggerated. I was ...
Final day in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... way to spend my last day on KPN and the last day in Thailand. I was very glad to be moving on as to be honest Thailand had bored me. Not enough interesting things to do but Malaysia should be action packed all the way. Met up with a couple of Aussie's ...
Full Moon Party
This is a top pick! ... , and lasers and glow paint rein. We sat there on Magic Mountain, deciding not to try the magic mushroom shakes. The preferred drink on Koh Phangan is the "Bucket of Joy". And yes, indeed it is served in a bucket! Its more of a sand pail size and comes ...
Back "home" - Koh Pha Ngan
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Koh Tao Diving
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Koh Tao in our entry from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia entitled 'Travel Rehab!'. Cheers, K & ...
Full Mooni
This is a top pick! Wanting to see Phangan (the last of the islands on the East side of Thailand for us to hit) we decided to head there in time for the October Full-moon-party and hook up with some of our previous travelling companions (Eve and Lauren and also Sarah) who ...
Going Back To Thailand
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bottle Beach Take 3
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Farewell to Bottle Beach
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Sacrifice to Poseidon
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Christmas in Thailand
This is a top pick! ... new 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 ...
Cafes, Tuk-Tuks, and deformed cats!
This is a top pick! ... our hotel (though we didn't know it and paid 60 baht - $2). You see, Simon made the mistake of asking "how much?" Number one rule in Thailand is never to ask how much. Even if it is free they will say it cost. The trick is to pretend you've been here for ...
A vacation from vacation
This is a top pick! ... the 8th. We are heading back to Bangkok on the 8th, another overnight bus ride with stinky toilet. Dogs gone wild In Thailand, there were quite a few wild dogs and cats running around. On the beach where we stayed, there was a pack of ...
Beach Bliss and Buckets
This is a top pick! ... I figured it would be the perfect way to end my little adventure. Since I had been to Koh Phangan and Thailand before I felt no pressure to get out and see the sites. I was perfectly content to stay in my corner of the ...
From Island to Mainland
This is a top pick! ... for the future, I will save money before my Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam trek, then do a bit more island hopping on my return to Thailand including a dive course, which I am looking forward to, even though I don't like fish! So, I decided to book the VIP bus ...
the moon, man
This is a top pick! ... match on the island. I was intrigued - it was something that had to be seen in person, at least once - especially IN Thailand. The ticket was 500 baht, about $16, for six fights. I later found out that locals only pay 100 baht ...
Full Moon Party
This is a top pick! 6-1-2007 Full Moon Party We woke up this morning just like the past few feeling terribly sick but I was determined today to kick the cold before our boat to the full moon party. I was determined to have a good time and I hated the idea of coughing. ...