Wakey wakey...

Full Moon

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June 22nd 2005
We had been on Koh Pha Ngan since 18th June as we heard you had to turn up to secure a room at least 3 days prior to the full moon party. It turns out this was good advice as the island was heaving when we arrived on an illegally overcrowded boat from Buddha Pier in Koh Samui. It's only a 12k journey on the boat, but you could see from peoples faces that they wished it was much shorter. We also no ... read more

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