Adding our war paint

Partying for the Full Moon

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September 4th 2007
Day 156 After a well deserved lie in we eventually woke at around noon. We went into town for a bite to eat and to sort out our flights back north to Chiang Mai before heading back to our bungalow to get ready for the evenings frivolities. On Ko Pha Ngan there are three big parties celebrating different stages of the lunar cycle, the biggest of which is the Full Moon party which we had come ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more