Aqueous Warfare
Trip Start
May 07, 2003
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Trip End
Sep 05, 2005
Ko Phangan,
Thailand
Friday, April 15, 2005
Secondly, may I give you an assured cocktail for the purest and most unadulerated banter and hilarious verbal abuse you will yet encounter: first, introduce Chris to Roel, place on tropical island together along with a few nightly bottles of the cheapest Maekhong Whisky, then mix slowly with several hotties and other characters of comical standing, and there you have it - bottled fun - yee haa! Slightly dangerous however when monster-like Vikings are skulking around looking for trouble - Thanks for the rescue on that one lads
01 Not stealing childrens toys again Tom?!
!The island in question was Ko Tao, mainly known for it's diving which I refused to do after seeing the enormous dive boats (40-50 people) piled ontop of each other by the half dozen on each dive site - yuck! We used the island mainly for getting pissed on as that was all there seemed to be to do other than dive... and admire the catwalk like streets bustling with scantily clad scandinavians...
After hearing all the maddos from Pai were 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. This basically involves all out aqueous warfare. Think of the glee at being able to run up to anyone you like regardless of size/age/sex with a full bucket of water, and slosh it all over them, usually at full force in the face! Top points were given for dry people, then dry farang, then farang on mopeds, then fat dry farang on mopeds!! Brilliant!! Yesterday, that day of total madness, was consequently one of the best of my life! Can you imagine the scenes of complete carnage, the streets awash with thousands of pissed up locals and farang alike, hardhouse banging out of enormous sound systems, with water cannons, hoses, dustbins and buckets used for launching water incessantly at one another - for more than 8 hours!! If you were to come to Thailand for only one reason, let it be Songkran, more fun cannot be had. Ko Phangan now has a major water shortage!!!
So... tonight be da half moon party on the sinful Haad Rin beach. Yes, they not only have Full Moon, but half moon, quarter moon, black moon, 3/16ths moon.. blah blah blah... the fun is endless... but the money is not... Aren't we meant to be at least in Cambodia by now Chris?
