Full Moon Party

Booked a VIP speedboat from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan with Petcherat marina, 1400 baht (cheaper boats available but so glad I went with this company) price included return taxi from hotel and speedboat transfer.
Boat leaves from 1700 right through the night and returns pretty much every hour, last boat home is at 0800.
Crossing was a tad choppy and bumpy and im not afraid to admit, i was proper shitting myself, glad I had a life jacket on! So after 30mins of hell arrived in one piece!
Took a songthaew from the pier and went to meet friends staying in The Bay Lounge resort, lovely resort built in to the rocks. The resort was celebrating its 1st birthday so there was live chill out music at the bar, a DJ playing excellent techno at the pool, with fire dancers on the beach. It was pretty cool sitting outside their hut, drinking beer, watching the sun set and everything going on!
Headed in to Haad Rin area later on for the Full Moon Party, 100 baht fee.
All along the street were stalls selling buckets of alcohol and fluorescent paint! You could buy a mixture of pretty much anything u wanted to put in your bucket! We opted for vodka and Thai red bull! 300 baht!
Arriving at Sunrise beach, we were met by a sea of party goers, some in worse states than others, most were painted with the fluorescent paint!
Dotted along the beach the varies bars had different music blasting out, techno, drum & bass, jungle, chart, psytrance, house. It was just a case of walking along the beach till you found what got you going!
A huge Full Moon Party sign was set on fire and everyone went mental.
A very friendly crowd, maybe 10,000 of them, young and old, from pretty much every where in the world.
Didn't see any trouble but there were loads of people passed out on the beach, throwing up, pissing in the sea, people had lost friends, flip flops, bags, phones and money!
Took a disposable camera with me as didnt want to lose my phone so won't know if my photos are any good till I get it developed!
Now for the fun part, getting home, having hated the journey over there was no way in hell I was doing the return in the dark, so headed to the pier at first light, the queues for the boats were horrendous, people pushing and shoving and not very happy. As I had paid more for my ticket, my boat was waiting, no queue!
A fantastic night!
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