KOH PHANGAN 06

Just a rough summary of what you could find at KOH PHANGAN.

(*to know how to get to koh phangan, pls check on posting BANGKOK 06 & KOH SAMUI 08)

Koh phangan is a little island 1 hour away from Koh Samui and 5 hours from BKK. Price is about THB 250 and THB 800 respectively.

PIX: this is the hotel that we stayed (booked online) which cost us a bomb (EST. THB 2400)

Nice place but too expensive. Lesson learned: Go to phangan and look for lodging instead, don't book online. Unless you are really looking for a classy resorty place to stay and just chill for the rest of your trip.

PIX: 1ST night at haadrin. So excited to see the entire stretch of beach are all pubs and people are dancing everywhere. The pail that we are holding is alcohol mix with redbull.

PIX: party people who we met at haadrin & my pal is getting her back done. The guy in the middle got his art work done as a "dick" lol.. Little thai boy working, selling flower necklace. Look innocent but when one of the "falang" din wanna buy from him, he used his think long straw and poke him in the ass. **falang = western people in thai

PIX: Psychedelic art work at ZOOM. The look alike mosquito thingy is hanging from a ceiling, when you lay down and look up, it looks really trippy. (it was at some shisha place)
PIX: This is my friends' place. They had book this place to stay about 10mins away from haadrin which only cost THB 500. Beautiful view but the thing is... if you are drunk at night, u won't feel like coming back here and sleep because u gotta take along stairway up the hill inorder to reach this Heaven.
PIX: Night before full moon party. The picture in the middle is mellow bar, great place to chill out. ZOOM at haadrin.
PIX: We paid THB 500 each to go on a tour around the island. The tour meeting place is at haadrin town. Traveling by boat, 1st place is to this waterfall place where everyone can swim and chill out there.
PIX: 2nd place is somewhere around the island. They will tie 2 boats together, give you the mask and give u about 1hour to snorkel.
PIX: last place, they will bring you to this beach, (i can't remember the name) and everyone can grab some food there. On our way back, it was raining and it was really really cold. But the best part was that we get to see the RAINBOW. Oh that guy in the picture is the tour guide. He can really make u laugh thru out the entire trip.

** When reached haadrin, dinner is provided but it is just normal rice and curry but IT IS FREE (*included in the THB 500)
PIX: As the fullmoon party starts from about 9pm to about morning 8am so my friends were saying that we could just skip the night party and check it out in the morning sunrise set. They were right indeed, it was really nice to party by the beach and watch the sunrise.
PIX: Packing up and leaving our hotel
PIX: After party, which starts from 10am till about 3pm at BACKYARD PUB. Beautiful scenery from the pub.
PIX: We took a nap around 3pm and went to MUNCHIES for dinner and meet up with some other friends. MUNCHIES food are really yummy. After din din, we went to the AFTER PARTY but this time round, it is at BAAN SABAI.
PIX: Packing up and leaving Koh phangan... so sad.. how i wish i can just go there whenever i want..

BANGKOK 06

My actual travel journey started back in Aug 06 with my friends. Our first trip was to BKK (Bangkok) for a day and leave for Koh Phangan the next morning.

PIXS - nice bed of ours, lovely locals,crazy crowd in the train and Khao San Road

ACTIONS - Rush to Khao San to buy bus and ferry ticket to go Koh Phangan. Cost was about THB 800.00 one way. While waiting for our food, my dear friend was getting her hair pleated by these 3 lovely ladies. Really love taking pictures of local people smiling. Language is a barrel but i guess smiles across all country is a international language.

PIXS - Ferry Wheel @ Suan Lum Night Market, Hollywood club *some liveband thingy which operates till 2am only but anyway we did not went in, Siam Paragon, Secret pix of our TUTUT guy.

ACTIONS - Went Siam Paragon but found that city shopping was not to our liking becos in singapore we see shopping malls everyday. So we decided to visit the SUAN LUM night market where you can find clothes, shoes and all sorts of ornarments. Shopping at Suan Lum is like walking in between lines within SQUARES.. u will not be lost there but somehow the entire place will take you hours and hours of walking!

Awww am hungry and legs are aching........ finally we surrendered and had our dinner nearby.

One night in BKK...Hmmm.. heard that BKK have great places to party!... Sad to say we did not do our research well and ended going weird places that the TUTUT driver was bringing us.

***WARNINGS - This taxi driver was telling us that he know clubs that are still open at 2am but somehow he only made 2 traffic turns into a small dark lane & stopped his car right infront of a very dark doorless entry with 2 30nish guys standing at the entrance. 1st thing that came to my mind was that, how come there are no music or even lights??.. so we didn't want to get out of the taxi even thou the 2 guys were telling us:" its ok to go in to take a look, if you dun like it, you can come out".

Ya right! But am not taking any chances today. I told our driver that we want to get back to our hotel but he refuses (probably he didn't make any commission due to TOURIST like us did not fall into his trap :P) .... We were sO angry.. pass him the $$ and left quickly to somewhere where there are more people and with more street lamps. PHEWww.. safe!!

In the end, we went back to the hotel, watched FASHION TV till 430am, shower, packed our bags and left for Khao San road to take our Bus.

Way to Koh Phangan

PIX - morning scene at Khao San Road, Ferry terminal.

ACTIONS - Taking a bus from Khao San Road, they said you have to be there before 7am but in actual fact we only leave Khao San about 9plus.. that was really tiring especially we did not sleep last night.. But luckily the bus ride was about 5 hours or so and we get to grab a quick nap.

Sun was shining and the weather was great! Finally we reach the ferry terminal and the entire place was packed with backpackers. We waited there for about an hour for the ferry to come and it was another 5 hours of traveling by boat.

PIX - chilling out @ e deck, Koh Tao drop off point, scenery while on the way to Koh Phangan.

ACTIONS - As you can see from the pics, we were mostly chilling out at the deck on our way to Koh Phangan. At first we were sitting below trying to get some sleep but the weather was too good to be miss out hence we decided to chill at the deck and have our suntan. Bags were all dump infront where were sitting and getting our bags out was really terrible. But i can assure you that your bags are really save there unless you have a lap top inside, cos when you board the ferry, the staff will take your bag and throw on the floor. So do not put any lappy inside.

This ferry have a few drop off points - Koh Tao, Koh Phangan and Koh Samui

Drop off point at Koh Tao - A great place for people who love diving and snorkeling.