9 May First things first, we're leaving tomorrow and we have washing to do, we sort out the clothes and hand them in along with the keys for the scooter. Back at the bungalow I finish off the last few pages of my book before starting with the inevitable, recording our expenses from hardcopy to digital. Tonight is Full Moon Party and we have decided to take it easy during the day knowing that it was going to be a late night. We spent the day lazing in the bungalo...

8 May We're up early, on our way to the North of the island for the sensational snorkeling that awaits us. We eat our breakfast and enjoy some fruit before packing for the trip North. Along the way we made a few stops - we were told that there is a waterfall definitely worth visiting and also that one can photograph the elephants along the way without having to pay the operators.The total distance to the north is 15km, after 5km the waterfall sign come up and we...

7 MayThe plan was to wake up early and head for the North of Koh Phangan where we planned to do a trek to the waterfall after which we would hire masks & snorkels to explore the reefs. But for some reason neither of us could sleep well the last night, waking up regularly. The result was we didn't leave so early and decided to sleep in till 08h00 postponing our plan to the following day and substituting it with a visit to the South East to visit the locations ...

6 May Up at 07h00, we want to see the Big Buddha before having to return the scooter at 09h00. We drove around quite a bit before finding the island where it was located, strange how not even the locals could direct us. The Big Buddha is a 12 m high statue which is gold plated, in essence it looks exactly the same as all other Buddha statues, but it's the biggest attraction of the island. We were harassed by a black dog following us around and jumping on us the ...