We took the ferry to the party island of Koh Pha-Ghan. The island is beautiful, actually; lots of open space and big forested cliffs. The roads are pretty bad. We spent a few days in the main town of Haad Rin to eat awesome food and party at the Full Moon. Mmmm, food. With the exception of Bali, for 2 months in Indonesia we had been more or less relegated to fried rice, fried chicken, and fried noodles. They didn't have the best vegetable selection there. In Haad Rin they have lots of falang (Thai for honkey) food and hippie food. A lot of the restaurants show videos. You can get drugs from the pharmacies if you want, and Thai massage on the beach. The beaches are excellent-- big and white with clear green water, relatively clean. Mellow Thai hippies selling jewelry, beat pounding the sand. Our bungalow was pretty expensive (150 baht=6 bucks a night), but it was on the beach with a hammock. We needed that.

The Full Moon Party was crashed by lots of straights from Samui "bridge-and-tunnel"-crowd" island). (Our quote for the night was "Please don't feed or tease the straight people.") So the beach was littered with groping drunks. Also the stuff we got from the pharmacies didn't do much for us. ("Make you feel like supa-stah.") The only thing I did like about it was seeing the random Thai families who were new to the scene and into it.