this was the second busiest island off the coast of Thailand.

we stayed in a small resort call My Phangan, basically we had a bungalow for about 3-4 days and all we did was read, swim and basically relax after the busy city of Bankok! the sun was warm the weather breezy and the sea was clear. it was perfect!

everynight we headed up onto the main road to go to a freindly bar where thye owner (althorugh Thai) was american. he had a good policy going he'd put music on his laptop and play them off his speakers from his bar. if you didn'tlike the songs you give him your Ipod and he'll play your stuff instead!

he had a projector that played all sports like footy, UFC, Boxing etc. the only downfall of this bar was this 40+ women that managed to stalk us everyday and as josh said "she couldn't take the hint!"

the next day we decided to get away and go to Haad Rin beach which was a beutiful 1Km stretch of beach and at night it was the venue for the world famous Full Moon Parties! after booking a diving trip in Koh Tao we headed to a family guy bar, we stayed there for a whiel and headed back to our side of the island. we ended up in a bar away from the crazy 40 year old women and started speaking to a Scotsman who has been given the famous Koh Pangan tattoo! this involves falling off a motorbike while drunk. he went flying through a bar and took out another two people. one who he hospitalised annd the other one just a nosebleed. he casued 80,000 baht in damage to the bike and the bar.

the next day we headed out to Haad Rin again for the full moon party of New Years Eve! this time the beach had 40,000 people! and the largest one bloke said hes ever seen it!

all they served were Buckets which contained whiskey, red bull and coke! at a crazy price! down on the beach we were stood next to some huge speakers and the fire performers. this involved a huge burning skipping rope that people out of the audiance tried to negotiate while bladded!

after endless dancing and countless buckets i lost josh and ventured into the sea to cool down. this was a big mistake! the waves were strong and took my sandle straight from me and i spent the next three quarters of and hour trying to find it, which isn't easy when your intoxicated with buckets! i eventually gave up and found two random sandles that the same thing had happened to thier owners and decided to walk home.

the only problem with this is that the sandles i had "aquired" didn't fit so i took them off and stumbled 5miles home Barefoot! it wasn't that difficult but it hurt like hell in the morning. when josh arrived a couple of hours later i found out that the same thing had happened to him! apart from he managed to find his! so at about 12 o clock new years day i had to borrow josh's sandles and go to buy some fake deisel ones!

the next morning we slept nearly all day and i rested my feet.

eventually we were boarding a ferry across to Koh Tao to start our diving course!