Lots has happened since the last update, but I'll start where we finished off on Saturday...
Saturday
We took Taz out for a lovely meal, we wandered about looking for the best seafood selection we could find and settled on a mixed plate which included a fish fillet, huge prawns, a blue crab, a whole squid etc... Al served up from the BBQ with a big baked potato! Sarah absolutely loved it, I didn't know she was such a massive fan of seafood. Later we found a bar whos happy hour ran until 1a so we crashed in there for a few drink offers and staggered our way back to the beach huts for a peice of Taz's birthday cake!
Sunday (full moon)
We were up bright and early for some breakfast before jumping in a minibus to the port. At 1am we set sail on a ferry rammed with holidayers all raring to get started at the full moon party. On arrival we realised its cost 1200 baht between us for a return taxi ride to the full moon or rent a jeep instead for 700 between us. So that's what we did!! It was so much fun, it even had air conditioning. The only problem we had was that the engine was a bit rusty and it kept cutting out and rolling backwards on the massive hills - thank god Taz was driving!! We ended up staying at a place called Phangan Cabana, 500 a room for aircon, sky TV and the place has a pool. Our huts are about 100 meters from the beach, if that. We were going to stay at a place with a fan only and all in 1 room for 600 between the 3 of us but we decided on the comfort of aircon instead.. After a power nap we were all back in the jeep again racing round the winding roads to Haad Rin. We gave te guy his jeep back and took a look around. There we looooooads of people everywhere - I don't think we've seen as many ravers in one area before and everyone was covered in glow up things or in fancy dress (saw a guy in a borat thong). We participated by buying a paint brush and 2 pots of illiminus paint. We stayed until 4am, dancing to all sorts of music (mainly dance I think) on the silky sand and drining cocktail buckets and changs! I haven't been to a party with more people than this before. The guide book says around 8000 on the beach - I think there were more!!! Brilliant atmosphere. We'll be scheduling in another one next time we're in Thailand ;-)
Monday
Shockingly me and Taz didn't rise until 2pm. Sarah had been sunbathing in front of our bungalows since 11. We rented scooters and used them for nothing more than to find food and nosy around. Way too hung over for anything else!! We had an early night for an action packed day Tuesday...
Tuesday
This morning we all left our Phangan Cabana bungalows for brekfast on the scooter. It wasn't long before we discovered a really nice beach which had a sand footpath to Ko Ma, a very tiny island. Taz and Sarah did some snorkelling :-) We visited an elephant sanctury this afternoon which we stumbled upon by accident. When we went in the guy said they also had snakes that we could have a look at. The one the man had out was a boa and about 1 meter long and pretty slim. Me and Sarah had a picture taken with it around our necks. Taz wouldn't go near it! Then he said I could old his mother so he popped open a big box and out slithers his 3 meter long, definately not slim mother! I was the only one who'd hold this one, it was very docileand the man had me led flat on the floor while it slithered round me andit was right in my face at one point! Sooooo heavy! I didn't realise that boa snakes were this harmless when they weren't hungry. I don't understand why I'm scared of a tiny spider yet enjoy playing with 3 meter boas! They're fascinating!! Next wasn't so fn though. Without wrning the guy popped open another box and a king cobra shot out. It moved completely differently, it was really aggressive, incredibly quickly and was lunging for the guy before we'd even managed to get out of the pen!! There was no way I was letting this one lick my face!
Tonight after a long day we almost ran over a little black puppy. We picked him up as there was no sign of people and when wepulled up at a pet shop the guy there agreed to keep him until someboy wanted him. We bought him a collar, a sack of puppy food and we called him Borris!
Mum & dad - sorry we haven't spoken in ages!! Taz says thank you very much for his prezzy and he's getting a tattoo with it in the morning - I've triedto talk him out of it!!!!! Ring you when we can :-)
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