Ko Pangnan

For our first night in Ko Pangnan we stayed in a hostel in a town called Haad Rin, where the full moon parties take place. We wanted to be in the middle of all the action and get a crew together to head to Half Moon with. We met a group of German's, of who Franz was the nicest. Never met a German who understood the English sense of humour as much as him. We pre-drank on the street at a place called chicken corner, which turns into an outdoor night club because of the music from all the bars around.
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We headed to Half Moon party and as soon as we walked in, Nash bumped into some of his mates from uni who he didn't even know were in Thailand, let alone going to Half Moon that night.
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Half Moon was good, but not as good as Tubing and the English girl who was in our dorm and came out with us had her drink spiked so me and Nash had to carry her home.

A killer Changover (hangover brought about by the consumption of Chang beer) was occuring the next day and we had to check out a lug our stuff on a walk to the other side of the Haad Rin peninsula to find our accommodation for the next couple of days.


As soon as we walked out of the trees and saw this view, the hangover didn't seem so bad anymore. One of the best beaches I'd ever seen and was only 10 minutes away from the full moon beach.

Walking out of the trees onto the beach.

By the time we saw the view from our bungalow, at a place called Lighthouse Bungalows which was on the rocks above the beach, the hangover was gone.




Amazing beach!



The view from the terrace of our bungalow.





It had amazing views out to see and over to Ko Samui. It was almost like camping though and at night was pretty scary as it was in the middle of nowhere, pitch black, and pretty exposed to all the lizards, birds, bats and insects that were around. Totally worth it to wake up to that view every morning though.



e spent a couple of days chilling and recovering on the beach. I rented a moped for a day and drove around the island a bit which was loads of fun. We also went on a snorkelling boat trip. The captain was giving out free weed as well which Nash gladly accepted.

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On our last night, we met up with Franz again for another night out, this time on the beach. In Haad Rin, there is always a party on the beach. On the night we went there was a huge foam machine at one end of the beach. After sharing a bottle of rice vodka (3 quid a bottle) on chicken corner we had some buckets on the beach.

The next afternoon we started our horrific 24 hour boat-minivan-bus journey down to Singapore.