Notes from Thailand: Ko Pangan

It's been 3 or 4 days since we left Cambodia behind and returned to Thailand bright and shiny with amazing experiences and a strong desire to have out at the beach all day long.

We blew to Bangkok from Phnom Pehn on Sunday, spent the whole day wondering around that god forsaken city with out heavy backpacks and finally caught our sleeper train to Surat Thani, the gateway city to the islands of Ko Samui, Ko Phagnan and Ko Tao. From Surat Thani we took a ferry to Ko Pagnan and we've been beach bumming since then. Ko Pagnan is home to the world famous Full Moon Parties, amazingly blue waters and whisky and vodka buckets. Yes, they really are beach pails filled with ice, red bull, soda and alcohol. So yum.

Oh, and the film "The Beach" was filmed in the neighbourhood, that's how hot the beaches are here.

Our days go something like this: wake up, put on bathing suits, slather on SPF 30+ sunblock to keep our skins young and safe, have breakfast, lay on the beach till lunch time, eat lunch, return to beach until the sun begins to set, shower, have dinner and share 3-4 vodka buckets on the beach while watching fire dancers. We usually dance the night away in the sand, under the stars (when its not too cloudy)and pretending like we're the best dancers on the beach. It's quite fun and to think we still have 6 more days of such sun and sand debauchery--or however you spell that.

Beach holidays are so fun, and to think in one week's time summe will be officially over and the new school year will have begun.

Le sigh.