The final leg of my 11 months of travelling came to a head in koh phangan in the southern islands of Thailand. Koh phangan is most famous for the legendary full moon parties where on an island that has a population of 12,000 can at the height of high season have 20,000 or more people come to party.

The journey down was quite a trek, took two hours to get from hostel to bus area in Bangkok, then from 7pm until 4am a long bus ride and at 6.30am boarded a boat that took until 1pm to get to the island. Fair to say I was a bit tired but when your travelling you get use to the abnormal sleeping patterns.

As soon as I arrived I met up with barney who I met back in Brisbane, we were both crashing at his two mates place who kindly let us stop for free. One of the girls was called jade who he worked with in a restaurant in Brisbane and her best friend Ellie. They both bunked up in one room while me and barney in the other.

We spent a few days leading up to the party just chilling out having a few drinks and relaxing, me and barney even went to see some local Muay Thai fighting which was actually pretty good, even kids young as 11 were fighting each other.

But the main reason I was here came, it was the 24th of July, the full moon party and to top it off come midnight it would be my birthday, what a was to spent your birthday and finish your travels, in style!

We started the day doing as little as possible to save our energy then come 7 we started to pre drink, two kiwi guys I met in the local bar earlier would join us at the bar to meet up before the party. We went to the bar which Ellie and jade knew the people who worked there and we managed to sort a taxi to take us through to haad rin which is where the party is held, at midnight. People started covering themselves in the uv paint and had their illuminous shirts on and the pre drinks were flowing, we met up with the two kiwi guys and we all started to have a good time. Come midnight when we got the taxi everyone started singing happy birthday to me and we got a free bottle of spirits to drink on the way courtesy of the bar, or we nicked it I can't remember.

We arrived in Haadrin and in the town it was full of people, like us many other people thought it might be too early for the beach so there was plenty of bars to get a couple of pints in and we did just that.

Around 1.30 we hit the beach and it was just a sea of people, dancing all over the place covered in uv paint, music blaring from all corners of the beach, loads of little wooden stalls selling the legendary buckets. People skipping and dancing around ropes that were doused in kerosene and put on fire. I even saw a slide set up from the top of one persons shop which led down onto the beach which looked pretty cool too. At the end of the beach was mellow mountain which I never went to but apparently you could drink magic mushroom shakes.

We went straight over to get some buckets, I opted for vodka red bull where over in Thailand the red bull is a lot stronger, 10 times more apparently, tastes like syrup by itself and then a small bottle of vodka was poured in with it, into a plastic bucket like you would use to make sand castles if you were a kid. The rest of the night is pretty hazy but it was great! I was still going strong at 7am where the sun started to come up and it was beautiful, every so often walking along the beach finding a person passed out lying on the sand probably about to get sunburnt very bad, but we kept on drinking and buying buckets until 9am.

The tiredness had kicked in by 10 and I made my way back to the resort, in the blaring hot sunshine, with my body covered in paint still very much drunk but even more incredible was that when I was leaving there were still drinking and dancing on the beach, pretty hardcore!

I spent the rest of the day and the next day recovering, I was a broken man. Then the day after I had to leave the island and slowly made my way up to Bangkok. To be honest I had no money in Bangkok and my hostel was terrible, no locks on the bathrooms and cockroaches found in the room so I spent most my time in cafes just relaxing, came close to seeing one of the infamous ping pong shows but it never materialised. I did check out the backpacker haven kho Sahn road but it was just a huge massive tourist street with bars and when you have no money it's not that much fun but I still had a good time checking it out.

The day came to leave Bangkok, Thailand and finish my travels to go home on a gruelling journey which would start at 5.30am leaving the hostel in Bangkok to being back home in England at 10pm, also incurring the time differences and stops in India and london.