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Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The Robotic Full moon Part-ay

This was where the Thailand trip was ending before we hit Malaysia and it seemed this was the same for everyone who we've met on our travels in Thailand. Koh Phangan. This was where everyone was going to meet and congregrate for the eagerly anitcipated 'The Full Moon Party', which is partied once a month, surprisingly when it is the full moon. The first party was in 1985, when 20-30 travellers partied on the beach giving thanks and then the party got famous from word of mouth. Now there are 20-30 thousand people at each party and it seems that it is a must on everyone's itinerary who is travelling South East Asia. It is considered to be the 'ultimate' party experience and we didn't want to let the team down.




We stayed on Hadrin beach on the opposite side to where the party was happening and found a great location where it was chilled out (not a good beach though)! It was a 10 minute walk to the party beach and more importantly Chicken corner, which is where I consumed many Shnitzel sandwiches from all the competetive restaurants HA! I have to mention our little crew that was with us because they all want to be mentioned on our blog (yes it's getting famous around the world). There was me and Danny, obviously leaders of the pack, or some would call us the 'delegators' and the rest consisted of Kate 'gangster walking' Windle, Beth 'gangster talking' Wright, Kim 'Olive oil' Murphy, Clare 'five head' Greenough and Chris 'Eddie Gordo' Prince. This was the main crew but there were others that joined us because we're the crew that has rep around here.



We stayed a total of six days on the island and there wasn't much to do apart from the parties that were going on every night, mainly the pool party at Coral, which had too many different fluids in the pool by the end of the night. I went solo for one day and went to watch Chris play beach footy with the crazy israelians, while the rest of the crew went to the other side of the island to sit on a nicer beach i think and a waterfall that was a trickle, so they decided to play the overplayed 'Dutch Blitz'- I'm glad I didn't get involved with that one!
Fast forwarding to the night of the party as much didn't happen before hand. It seemed for the guys, it was about wearing bright shorts with the official Full Moon Party logo and posing for as many photos as we could. The Full Moon party isn't complete if you don't cover yourself with bright illuminous paints all over your exposed skin and this was on the agenda for a couple of hours before we left. Everyone had their input on each person, some better than others. Cesca painted a Mike Tyson styled tattoo around my left eye, which inspired everyone else to have a similar design and that kept cesca occupied for the next couple of hours. Sarah painted lines and squares on each leg because that's all she was capable after her weak attempt of a mushroom on my arm.


The night was absolutely crazy with thousands of people on the beach dancing away to the beat. There were different types of music playing but we just generally stayed at the main one. The main event of the night had to be when I had to the robot and Chris had to do the beyonce in front of everyone, because we lost on the card games and this was our forfeit. Obviously we gave it 110% and swapped after 30 seconds, which was the swiftest transformation to ever go down in history lol! We all made it to watch the sunrise and surprisingly we were all together-that shit never happens! Beth couldn't stop taking photos of every angle of the sunrise with different people in the photo's but to be fair she had quality pics, which is why it's a shame that she left her camera behind!

All in all, it's a party not to miss and one we will never forget and it does help to have a group like who we were with because it made it that bit extra special!!

Since we are returning to Thailand at the end of our trip we will conclude with a summary on the country then. It will be more competitive for the countries top 3 destinations also.

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