Phangan Bayshore Resort Ko Phangan

... levelled out, our way was paved with coconut palm leaves and soft sand. The sight in front of us was of a quaint beach, a sweet resort and the tranquillity of the sunset over to our left behind the island. <br>The black moon party cost 400 baht for entry, but it was worth it. We mixed up some lethal vodka mojo, and proceeded to make our way out with two swiss girls we met earlier, Sandra and Emelie, and two Aussies, Jarred and Luc (who we became good friends ...

... This then drove for about an hour until we reached the harbour. Everyone piled onto the boat, and then ludicrously it sat there for over an hour before we finally left. That's an extra hour I could have been in bed!<br><br>The boat stopped first at Ko Samui, then at Ko Phagnan, then finally at Ko Tao. On board I sat downstairs in the air conditioned bit for a while, and no sooner had I done this was circled by dive school vultures. I spoke to three ...

... quite amazing and a quite an experience which we probably won&#8217;t forget. But beware of the buckets! They are dangerous. Easy to drink but hey they are vicious. And when you put bucket and taxi motorbike together well, that&#8217;s not a good combination at all as Noah later discovered waking up on a speedboat which was taking him to hospital to Koh Samui as he injured himself. (For those who don&#8217;t ...

We get the ferry north to Ko Phangan, where we are to stay at a resort en-route to the black moon party. We spend the day doing very little, basically lazing around in several different places, like on the beach, by the pool, and in our very own hammock.<br><br>We ate a few times during the day, as we have all agreed that we like food, and we think it is good for us. We also found out that it ...

We say goodbye to Simon (or Ziiiimmmoon as we like to call him) what a brave chap off to Krabi and Singapore on his own, age 20, if he can do it so can I, although still enjoy clinging to the group at the moment! So only me, Richie and Si left, aw and they seem so tired of the continous photo's so soon. I manage to squeeze in another 2 scuba dives in Ko Tao, this time with Siam Scuba school that looked like a cross between a Karate Kids training school and ...

... Shipwrecked rejects scattered on the sand drinking buckets of booze. I was tempted to turn back pretty much as soon as we arrived, but curiosity killed the cat and a few hours later Gina and I were drinking our own bucket of booze, oblivious to the fact that in Asia they add speed to Red Bull. Yes, speed. Amphetamines. Brilliant.<br><br>We&#8217;d been fairly reserved up until this point and had spent our time chatting to the two chaps who&#8217;d accompanied us over. One ...

... private bungalow on stilts. We have a wrap-around deck that looks right over the water and the surrounding mountains and it is costing us a whopping $10.50 per night. The weather hasn't been wonderful - lots of clouds, but its not so bad. We can still swim everyday and the temperature is perfect. Our bungalow is great, except for the bathroom. It has a manual flush toilet, meaning you have to scoop a bucket of water into the toilet after every ...

... video so I chose Metallica - Enter Sandman, which has become the unofficial theme tune of the trip. After that we all went out to dinner and had a few beers, really nice way to round off the diving...<br><br>...Or so we thought, it turned out we loved the course so much that after much budgetary consultation we decided to stay on and do the advanced course. We had a day off between as diving is such a surprisingly knackering activity so we had the best massage ever in the whole of ...

... s constantly eat and yet never gain any weight. after our nice meal of salted fish and rice IM asks me to go paddle boating with her which is just hilarious because i haven't been in a paddle boat since 1981 when my dad used to drag me and my sister around a lake on the weekends. so IM and i get this little paddle boat and off into the open waters of the lake we head. the problem was that this paddle boat was made for little Thai people so my knees were up in my ...

... board he has ever ridden. His balance is truly inspiring; with knees bent like muscular shock absorbers and his arms circling and extending to maintain his poise, nothing seems to upset his stability. In fact the more beer he drinks and dope he smokes the more fluid his movements seem to become. His buddies are ripped; completely wasted, and after an hour or so of staggering into people and tumbling onto the hard, wet deck they decide that discretion is the better part of ...