Just to warn you, please don't any expect any photos to be added from our time in Koh Phangnan. If we took the camera out with us, it would of most likely been broken, lost or stolen so we always left it locked in a locker just to be safe. Koh Phangnan was always about partying so there wasn't much culture etc to photograph anyway…although we wish there was some way we could show you some of the things we got up to, even though photos wouldn't do it justice anyway, you will see why we couldn't have the camera there….

The three of us woke up around 8am in Koh Tao, got our stuff together and grabbed a toastie from 7/11 - which are the shops which are everywhere in Asia, kind of like a One Stop back home. These toasties are the best and are about 50pence, so great for a quick snack as they heat it for you right there. We then headed to the pier to get the 2 hour ferry to Koh Phangnan. On the way Assad pointed out all the flying fish that were about which was cool to see.

When arriving at any place there are always taxi drivers, tuk tuk drivers etc trying to take you wherever you need to go. We asked a few and they were all saying 200 baht each, and we couldn't get them any cheaper, but Assad has obviously been here before and said it is actually quite a drive to Haad Rin. This is where we were staying as it is the beach where the Full Moon Party is held and the best place to stay. So we agreed on 200 baht and headed over to where the taxi was parked. But then the driver got two of his mates and walked us over to 3 mopeds. Moped taxis are really common in these parts of the world too, and it is amazing how they managed to hold our big bags between their legs and still drive so well.

Our hostel was booked from the 12th to the 16th but as we were arriving on the 8th we needed to go and check they had room for us. Most people don't come to the island until around the 11th earliest so we didn't think there would be a problem. The hostel was called Palio and was run by a lovely Thai lady called Juan, who has been there 10 years. We got on well with her straight away, she learnt our names and we had a laugh with her our whole stay here. Obviously we were very early to check in but she said it wasn't a problem, they had plenty of room and she gave us a really good discount for the extra nights we were staying. It cost us around £55 for the 8 nights we were staying, which is so cheap, especially as it is supposed to be more expensive over full-moon. We spoke to others who had paid a lot more. The hostel was also next door to Haad Rin arena, a Muay Thai gym with a ring, bags, weights, pads etc. Juan told us we could use all of this for free, which Assad was especially happy about!

After getting settled into our room, we headed to the beach to have some lunch and check out the island a bit, find our bearings. The beach was really nice, golden sand and blue sea, the usual! It is in a sort of bay, and we couldn't wait until the 14th when 20-30 thousand people will be partying on it until sunrise! We had a swim and a sunbathe for a bit before going back to the room to chill for a bit, then get ready to go out.

That night we headed to the beach where it was now a lot more lively. There are stalls set up where ladies are selling buckets of alcohol, which is the cheapest way to get drunk and what everyone drinks…. They last quite a while. The stalls have the ladies names on the front and one called Lucy was calling us over so we went. We spoke to her for a while and mentioned we were there for 8 nights and had lots of friends coming so she promised she would give us all good deals if we kept coming back. She wrote our name down on a bit of card she had, we realised later this is so she can call out to us when she sees us on the beach. We stayed on the beach for a while until we met two Norwegian girls who said they were going to a place called Eden and we should go with them. We had heard this place was really good so went along.

Eden is at another beach on the other side of the island called Baan Thai, and you have to get a taxi boat there. So we headed to the sea and jumped on one of the boats… you have to walk out until the water is up to your thighs, good job we didn't have the camera! It was fun riding on the boat in pitch black around the island, and when we are on the way there, a flying fish went past and the driver stuck a hand out and somehow caught it! He showed it to all of us then we carried on… was crazy!

We got dropped on Baan Thai then had to walk through some rocks, across some bamboo bridges and then up a bit more, following the music. When we got there it was packed, as it was a Tuesday and Tuesdays and Saturdays are the best time to go. The place is supposed to be a bit of a secret rave, that's why it takes a bit of effort to go there, but obviously with the amount travellers talk to each other and recommend stuff, everyone knows about it. We had probably our best night travelling so far there, then got a boat back to Haad Rin. Lloyd got to catch the end of the Chelsea game and was buzzing as they got through to the semis of the champions league. Few more drinks on the beach then off to bed.

The next day we woke up, had breakfast and went to spend the day on the beach. It was boiling hot so we spent most of the time just lying and chilling in the sea. We bumped into the Norwegian girls floating on some lilos so spoke to them for a bit before being challenged to a volleyball match. We haven't really played it much but it was something to do for a bit so played a three on three match against some guys from Israel. We smashed them the first game, then one of them sat out as he couldn't handle the heat, it was scorching hot! Another guy came and joined the Israelis…. And he was much better than all of us and knew the rules properly etc. They won the next two games, then we all ran to the sea to cool down.

We just had a chilled evening that night, as the next 5 nights were going to be a bit crazy!

Feeling fresh from not drinking the night before, Assad went to the gym to do a bit of Muay Thai training for an hour, and Lloyd did a weight session and went for a run. Then we had another chilled day before going out that night.

We started the night having a bucket from Lucy on the beach, then got in a free taxi to a place called Coral Bungalows. This is a famous pool party on Haad Rin and we had been recommended it by a lot of people. When we got there it wasn't very busy at all, and no one was even in the pool! Obviously because it was still a few days from full moon, the island hadn't got very busy yet still. Assad jumped straight in, followed by Lloyd and Tim and then more and more started getting in too. It did get a lot busier but we decided to leave and go to another party instead. This event was down the road a bit and into the jungle where it is all set up in there with DJs, bars etc. This wasn't very busy either so we headed back to the beach and finished the night there.

Today, Rich, Sam and Jamie were coming to Koh Phangnan which we were looking forward too as we hadn't seen them since Siem Reap in Cambodia. So after sleeping off our hangover we went to meet them at their hostel, which was literally round the corner from ours which was handy. The street theirs is on was a lot busier than ours, and everyone dances together out in the street so it was a good place to start the night. They were with some other people they had met along the way… they have been in Vietnam, whilst we have been in Laos and North Thailand. Two girls they were with were actually two girls Tim and Lloyd met in Cambodia, Clara and Hannah… which was weird bumping into them again, and the fact they were with the three boys just showed how much of a small world it is when you're traveling. We introduced everyone to Assad and got to know other people at the hostel before heading to the beach.

We had heard the place to go tonight was a place called Guys Bar, then to Eden again, which are 10 minute walk apart. So we got in taxi boats again over to Baan Thai beach. Whoever said Eden was only good on Tuesday and Saturdays was right, because this time it was quite empty, and so was Guys bar, so we went back to Haad Rin and spent the night on the bars on the beach again. We knew that the island was going to start getting a lot busier over the next few days.

Next morning we woke up to messages saying the girls had arrived on the island, Georgie, Charlotte, Kelly & Becks who we last saw in Chiang Mai. They were with more friends too… some boys from their University and some other girls from their home towns etc. Also David had messaged us saying he was here too, the guy we travelled Vietnam with and hadn't seen since as he had been to Singapore and Malaysia to meet a friend. The girls asked us to go meet them at their hotel, which had a pool so we set out to find it and told David to meet us there too, and messaged Rich, Sam, Jamie and all their lot to meet us too.

After walking around for ages up and down the beachfront trying to find the place we bumped into David and the girl he's been traveling with, Claire. We gave up on finding the girls hotel because they hadn't been on the island long and didn't really know where things were, so couldn't direct us. We didn't have our phones to message them either. Later we worked out the confusion as their place was called Sunrise Villas, and we were looking for Sunrise Resort which was on the beach somewhere! So anyway we sat and had a drink with David and Claire and had a catch up on our time apart, he was sad and surprised that Ben wasn't with us.

That night we met the boys at their hostel again and the girls met us there too, with their other friends that had joined them. David and Claire came too so their was a good group of us! After a few buckets we all sort of got separated and went separate ways. Assad wanted a night off so went to bed, but Tim and Lloyd went to Coral Bungalows again with a few of the girls. Rich, Sam and Jamie were going to round all of their lot up then meet us there.

Coral was a lot better this time, and when we got there it was already full with good music playing and lots of people in the pool. As we said, the Island doesn't really get busy until 2 nights before full moon. We spent the night there until Charlotte slipped over and chipped her tooth. She was a bit upset and was late anyway so we all decided to head back. Rich and that had decided to go to a waterfall party instead so didn't see them - which they said the next day wasn't very good so we were glad we went to Coral. We spent the rest of the night at the girls hotel chilling in their pool anyway which was cool, before going to bed.

Today was the 13th, the day before full-moon and also Songkran! Songkran is Thai new year and also a celebration of the start of the rainy season. The way they celebrate this is the whole country has a water fight… it is crazy! If you don't want to get wet, don't go outside! Lying in bed we suddenly heard the loudest thunder ever and it suddenly started chucking it down! It was torrential rain, but only lasted about 20mins and it was hot again… we couldn't believe the timing as it hadn't rained in months then bang on Songkran that happened! That was a sort of natural signal to start the day off so we went for breakfast. Even on the way to breakfast we got soaked! Everyone just walks around with buckets of water, water guns and talcum powder covering each other. Thai people walk up to you and put this sort of white paste on your face and wish you happy new year. Everyone is soooo happy!

After breakfast we headed to the girls hotel for a foam party. We spent the day there in a giant bubble bath, as the pool was full and overflowing with bubbles of foam. Obviously everyone still had water guns and the water fight went on all day here too with everyone laughing, dancing and swimming about.

We then went to the pub for some dinner and to watch the Liverpool vs Man City game. Whilst watching the football we were still squirting people outside the bar from behind a bush the whole time. It was so funny as nobody knew where it was coming from, but when we did get caught people just laughed or squirted us back! Liverpool won the game so Tim was happy and so was everyone else as today was full of nonstop laughter from start to finish… everyone loves a water fight and Thailand knows how to do it properly!

That night we started at the boys hostel again then headed to the famous Jungle Party. This was in the same jungle as last time but this time it was rammed! You could hardly move it was so full and it was such a good night! The music was so good and everyone was together loving life, well we were all together at for the first hour or so anyway but you soon start losing each other. There is pretty much the same amount of people at the jungle party as there is at the Full Moon. In the middle of the party there is a Maui Thai ring where they have a couple of professional fights, then a tightrope fire show, which is a bloke on a tight rope throwing fire around basically. Quite impressive. Then after that they just get people in from the crowd to fight each other, with all the gear on so it's safe enough. It is so funny though as most of them had never done any Maui Thai before so they were basically just wind milling each other. Everyone in the crowd got right behind the people that were from their country.

Everyone ends up on their own at some point in the evening, but as there were so many people dotted around who we knew, we would always end up bumping into one them, then working together to find others. This night beats Eden and the Coral Pool Party to our best nights ever, but we all had a feeling the big one tomorrow would top it again!

So this is it the world famous Full Moon Party, the one all you parents have been worried about. Don't worry we all made it to bed in once piece… just!

We all slept till about 3-4 o'clock that day, it got later and later every day. We got up and got breakfast and you could tell straight away around the streets the buzz there, so many more people about and the beach was rammed already as well!

At our hostel, on full moon night they put on a pre-party, with a free buffet, a free bucket and all free body paint. It started at 8, the food was average but it was free and as it was a buffet it was standard for everyone to pile as much food on a paper plate as possible! We got away with an extra free couple of buckets as well as they cocked up and gave Tim an extra ticket, so we shared that one, then when Tim had a tiny bit left in the bottom, one of the hostel workers knocked it out of his hand by accident, Juan saw it and said 'Don't worry Tim, have another Free one!' so we shared that one out as well! Cheers! After a bit of dancing and drinking we started painting ourselves up a bit! The theme of Full Moon is all luminous bright colours, so everyone just wears bright clothes (some more than others) and covers themselves in luminous paint and glitter! Juan has been doing it for 10 years and painted a massive orange scorpion on Lloyds back, it looked really good for about 10 minutes before it started sweating away! When we'd finished up with our buckets, we went back to the Dancing Elephant once again to meet all the boys and girls, where we had even more buckets, the vibe was so good everyone was just loving life so much, and of course still meeting new people like every five minutes. We bumped into two Canadian guys Sam and Ethan who we have bumped into so many times over the trip so was good to get them involved in our massive group as well.

Then we all decided to head to the beach, most of us went together, but once we got there we lasted even shorter together than last time! 30 odd people went to groups on 10 to 5 to 2 then obviously you got stuck on your own sometimes as well, but it was the same process as the jungle, walk around for a bit and in the end you will find someone. The beach is nearly a mile long and is literally chocka block full of people. When we got to the edge we stopped in our tracks just to take in how massive the party is! It is incredible!

There are loads of massive podiums all down the beach full of people dancing along with the sand, the shallows of the sea and all of the bars that face the beach! There is music coming from every direction, if you get stuck between two different DJs it's hard to pick out which music to dance to. We all went home with various different people and different times, don't think anyone got back before 6am and that is relatively early! Tim managed to stay out until sunrise, doing the YMCA on one of the massive podiums watching the sun come up, as you do! This was not long after Lloyd and Georgie came a cropper after thinking it would be a good idea to have race to a pool only to both get wiped out by something we couldn't see on the floor, which has now left Lloyd in a sling for a couple of weeks which is a bummer… hey that is the effects of the Full Moon party, could have been a lot worse.

We were right the Full Moon Party did beat every night out eve had since traveling, scrap that the best night of our lives. In fact it was one of the best weeks of our lives, getting to meet up with all of our favourite people we have met over the last 10 and a half weeks made it even better.

Once again we apologise for only taking one photo in Koh Phangan and even that was on the boat leaving, but I'm sure you understand now why we couldn't take It out now, we were just being sensible, like usual ;)

Next stop…Phuket. We've heard its good so Phuket might as well pay it a visit!