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In Ko Tao, After bumping into a mate we had made previously at the full moon party who advised us Koh Pangnan would be a 'ghost town' due to the fact the full moon party had just been we seen even more reason to go!
Thankfully he was right, the island was filled with locals n' very quiet for a change. First things first we jumped off the boat, found a cheap beach side bungalow (6 quid a night) n threw our stuff in n headed straight down to the local English Pub for a roast dinner... (Nothin' on Mandy's according to Sophie). We seen a moped rental shop across the road for only 3 pound a day so we snapped 1 up for a couple of days. We had a couple of relaxed drives that day n then went to bed for the evening. The same couldn't be said for the next day as we now had to find a new place to stay as Sophie was sick of bungalows.
Picture the scene: Me, Sophie,2 backpacks, a bright fluorescent pink lilo all crammed on to a tiny little 100cc moped going back and forth across the island looking
for a cheap appropriate place to stay. As i grew hungry and Sophie grew ratty we needed some fuel in our bellies so stopped off for the worst scran ever at some dingy off road cafe. We did however get speakin to a cockney Spurs fan (who Liverpool happened to be playing that night) so we had a bit of banter with him n he recommended us 2 places to stay. The first place was a place called Haan Son on the other side of the island where he assured us the luxury of 2 swimming pools, hot shower and free brekky. He also recommended a place called Lime N' Soda which was cheap but also had a pool. I was keen for a free brekky n' to wag it up for a few days so we headed for Haan Son n naturally got lost on numerous occasions so a few locals watched and laughed as they seen us come back and forth down the same road on a regular basis.
After about 40 minutes or 40 hours we finally arrived at Haan Son with Sophie as delightful to be with as ever in a particularly perky mood as
I'm sure you can imagine. Anyway when we got in we were in fact informed breakfast was not included which had been the biggest attraction really due to our budget so we headed off back round to the other side of the island in search of Lime N' Soda.
Lime N' Soda was brilliant for the price we paid as the pool overlooked the beach and the bar had nice food, cold beer and a free pool table. We'd spend the afternoon sitting by the pool, the evening sitting on our balcony with a beer listening to some tunes on the ipod speakers and then we'd head out to some of our favourite bars later in the evenin' where we'd made quite a few mates. Unfortunately we didn't manage to get any pics of Lime N' Soda for some reason but we intend to go back later on in the trip so will take some more then.
HALF MOON PARTY DAY:
We'd heard a lot of things about the Half Moon Party, one being that some people preferred it to full moon as it was less busy and also the fact it was in the jungle. We'd
also heard some bad things from a local talented dj who said the music was something called 'psy-trance' which we had no idea about! So we went with open minds and absoloutely loved the first few hours! It wasn't very busy at all as we had arrived early which you can probably see from the photos. The music was in full motion with house n' techno pouring from the speakers & men waving fire sticks about to the music. We were absoloutely loving it!
However, our stamps allowed us to enter and leave as we pleased so we decided to get a taxi boat to another club we'd heard about just off the island called 'Eden Garden'. This place was amazing, a really relaxed atmosphere and it was only open 2 nights a week so we knew we had to go. After a short stay there we headed back to the Half Moon party wondering if we had came back to the right place or not! It was absoloutely chocca and something truely terrible had happened to the music! The first Asian dj had been replaced by some French guy who was now playing some retarded, cheap sounding throwback shite
at like 145 beats per muinute! Seriously just type in psy-trance on youtube folks and you'll see what we mean. Anyway we still had an amazing night and we followed it up with a few relaxed days hanging at bars and going round the island to see the sights.
Cambodia next.
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