Two nights in a town focused on partying, drinking and partying.. hmm what to say?
On our first night we discovered that our guesthouse (Anan) backed onto Haad Rin Nok, the 'sunrise beach', aka Full Moon Party beach. We also discovered that Haad Rin does not only party on the night of The Party but apparently goes off every other night, with a New Moon Party, Black Moon Party, Half Moon Party, Shiva Moon Party and Full Moon warm-up and after-parties. None of us got much sleep (except damn Mick who somehow managed without even his earplugs to get some shut-eye) the night before Full Moon because of the revelry, but it's what we had to expect with our prime party location.
On the day of Full Moon (the 30th) we decided we had to get out of town (away from the hectic tourists + beach + alcohol = mayhem vibe) and went to discover another beach to the east of the island and the 'Food Fair Festival' on Thongsala Pier. Nothing special but a nice change from the doof-doof-doof. We came back to discover that it was pouring in Haad Rin, the power was out and the whole place was relying on generators. It would have been an interesting Full Moon Party with candles and a few generators but thankfully (?) the power came back on and the place kicked into gear. We had a fantastic night of painting ourselves silly (Dave and I may have had a face-painting war in front of the UV lights!), drinking the odd bucket from Emma's bucket stall and dancing the night away -to what I would probably normally refer to as 'hideous trance crap'- but was quite succinctly AWESOME. I can see how any people would totally lose it, what with all the fire twirling, mushroom mountain and constant propositions, but we had a fabulous night of good clean fun! Dave loved it so much that after Mick, Ez and I went to bed, he kicked on a little longer and may have fallen asleep on the beach.. only to return to our guesthouse when the sun was well and truly shining through our window. A quick and dirty visit of Koh Phangan was all we really needed though, and the others headed to Koh Samui by boat (which I heard did not go down too well for any of them) and I headed to Phuket on my own.
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