Blogs from Ko Pha-Ngan, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 7

We left for Thailand at 4:30 am Christmas morning, which is a pretty depressing time to be awake if you’re not on your way to Thailand. We flew first to Guangzhou, my third Chinese airport, and my favorite. They had way more food and entertainment options than the others did, so we spent a fine time on our 3.5 hour layover. Ali bought an iPad game and we spent a good deal of the time trying to figure out what the heck we were supposed to do next, which mainly involved us yelling things like, “Maybe you can dig up the blood with that piece of wood over there!” and making everyone around us feel uncomfortable. As we were getting on the plane and having our tickets checked, we found out that Lindsey was not on ... read more

Koh Phangan, once an idyllic island famed for it’s amazing turquoise waters sitting in front of a backdrop of white sand beaches and lush jungle. It was the destination of choice for long term backpackers and hippy ex-pats, who would once see out their whole allocation of Visa on this relaxed and remote island, some still do. It is now however more unfortunately known for its party scene and the monthly full moon parties. This lead’s me nicely on to the title of this blog; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Good We disembarked from our ferry at Thong Sala pier in Koh Phangan at the re-scheduled time of 7am and thanks to the early arrival, the taxi mafia were still fast asleep so we had a relatively relaxing stroll to our pick-up ... read more

I actually did it! Ater going on and on about it for what has felt like forever finally I am travelling! The goodbyes weren't as bad as I expected and the flights out were long and tiring but by 1am the day after we set out, we collapsed into bed in Koh Samui. Being the smart girls we are, we set an alarm so we would have a stress free check out in the morning - unfortunately neither of us were smart enough to change the time off England time oops! So having been woken up by cleaners trying to get in and rushing around to get sorted resulting in a bit of a sweaty mess :), we set off to get a boat to Ko Pha-Ngan. First day in Pah-Ngan was pretty chilled, just getting ... read more

Its Christmas Day! Hooray Hooray, I get up in rather a good mood. Well, it is Christmas! I never had any expectations as to how I would spend it once I knew I was abroad., I figured that I would probably just spend it with myself and that would be cool. But when I surface and make my way to the restaurant for breakfast – Talon the Canadian is there. He asks if I want to hang out, go check out a beach he's heard about somewhere else on the island? and in the absence of anything else to do – I think why not?! When we get there its perfect. The most beautiful little secluded private Christmas day beach ever. Like it was built just for two. Talon lives “to ride” which is snow board ... read more

I've finally managed to sort the 3 month visa for Thailand and am ready to travel up from Penang in Malaysia to Koh Phangan the island off Thailand famous for the full moon party – which will be my stopping point for at least the next month and a half. My minivan driver takes a shine to me – so after an obligatory photo, no doubt so he can show me off as his falang girlfriend, I get to sit up front. A blessing as some poor sod behind me spends the next 8 hours rammed into the minivan with The Bastard (my backpack) wedged between his knees and the seat in front. We get to Surathani and gradually everyone on the bus is dropped off, except me of course as I need to be taken ... read more