After recovering from our huge full moon party experience Pete and I decided to rent motor cycles(sorry mum) and discover more of the island. We quickly learnt a few disturbing things about riding motor bikes on the island. 1. Only about 1/4 of the island's roads are actually asphalt. The rest being dirt, steep and down right dangerous. 2. The maps don't make much sense So with our mid-20's "pffftt as if chicken out" attitude we headed off as fast as we could! Our first stop was Wat Purna - a Budda who was erected approximately 100 years ago (we think, documentation is slim). The funny thing is, we had to turn off the main road, down a dirt track and then down another smaller dirt track to find him. It was like nobody cared about
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