Up about 10:00, quick shower and pack job, checked out and went for breakfast.
While having breakfast, Rat Buddy came along, all upset, and tells us a Thai girl had locked herself in his bathroom in his hut. He claimed that last night, he found this Thai girl on the road, as he was coming home from the bar, her legs were all injured and he wanted to take her to the hospital, but she refused, so he said he would take her to his hut and clean her wounds, and she could stay there, because she had nowhere else to go! Ya right! She was a prostitute, he picked her up, then she got locked in his bathroom, and he had to come up with a fanciful story to make him not look like he's paying for a hooker. We laughed and laughed about this one.
About noon, the four of us took a songtheaw to Big Buddha pier to catch the boat to Koh Pha Ngan. We bought our tickets and waited for the boat at 1:00.
The boat ride was about 45 minutes, when we got to Koh Pha Ngan, lots of bungalow operators trying to get us to stay at their places. A lot of them are far from the Full-Moon party beach. We ended up finding one within easy walking distance. It's a big bungalow for the four of us for 500 baht, and it's on Sunset Beach, about 10 minutes walk to Had Rin town and Sunrise Beach (the full-moon party beach).
We had something to eat, watched end of Shrek and then watched Chicken Run, then went for a walk to downtown Had Rin. Full of tourists, and lots of stores selling buckets of alcohol that you mix yourself. We also did a lot of window shopping. We visited the beach where the full-moon party happens. It's a beautiful beach, set in a cove, with super-fine white sand, very wide beach, maybe 1km long, abutted on both sides by rocky cliffs. The whole beach is lined with bars, restaurants, and a couple of bungalow operators, the bars blasting dance music onto the beach with massive sound systems.
We bought some buckets, then headed back to the hut and had a drink, then made our way to the beach bars about 10:30, and holy cow!!! Probably over 1000 people dancing, drinking, partying, in various stages of intoxication. They had fire shows, I jumped through a ring of fire (no, I wasn't drunk). A guy on a motorbike jumped through a ring of fire on the bike and wiped out on the other side. It was an incredible spectacle.
We left about 2:30, Uta and Court stopped to get something to eat, Ben and I continued home and went to bed. Uta and Court showed up about 4:00, then got lost and ended up getting a ride home with a guy on a motorbike. He crashed the bike, and they all got a little scraped and bruised.
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