Hey everybody, sorry for such a delay with the updates, its hard to find the time to sit and do it!!
so I completely forgot to add in my last blog about the elephant riding and washing, it was a really strange feeling, being on top of something so big yet the handlers having such control over them, they really are very smart creatures and were very well looked after!
We walked around for about 30 mins then walked down to the river where they played and squirted water over each other and us, was really sweet!!!
So anyway on with the story. We were dropped off in bangkok at the bus station at 7pm where I got on the night bus, the bus was meant to take us directly to Chumphong and take 8 hours HOWEVER
at about 3 in the morning the bus stopped, told us to get off and wait for another bus to come and get us, 3 HOURS LATER another one turned up and took us to the ferry, and to top it all off on the bus whilst I was sleeping someone stole my ipod :( what a bummer!!!
so I got to the first island which I would be staying at called Koh Pha-Ngan and made my way to the hotel, the hotel was called the Weangthai and was really very nice, I had a room with a balcony, a swimming pool just outside and I could throw a stone in to the sea from my balcony! Was pretty sick. The staff were great and fun, the owner was an english guy called Dave which made things a whole lot easier in the communication department.
I was kindof lucky because my next door neighbours were two canadian guys called Rheyal and Darnel from central canada and were very very homophobic haha then on the other side was a Finish girl Traveling on her own called Vilma, two german guys who's names I temporarily forget, a Finish couple on there honeymoon and a couple from norway. I do know their names its just spelling them is a little difficult lol.
So we all pretty much hung out together for the whole time I was on the island, eating out, chilling on the beach, renting mopeds and cruzing round the island, drinking in the evenings. It was a fairly cool group and lots of story to be told but I don't have all the time in the world!!! but yeah my time on koh Pha-Ngan was super and was topped off by the half moon party which was epic! Basically just a rave in the jungle with psychedelic funky house techno (or at least thats what I was told!) yeah it was a good night!
I feel like I should white more about my time on this island but there are too many good memory’s, to tell you about them all would actually take forever so I will leave it at that!
So my time was up on Pha-Ngan and was time to move a little south to Koh Samui, a slightly bigger more touristy island, good in some ways but bad in others i.e. there is a Mac Donald and a BK hear so not perfect thai culture which is what ive been used too but hey ho all was good, I arrived on the first day of a 3 day festival called Song Kran which is the Thai New year, this is celebrated by the whole nation having a super massive water fight, people lining the streets with hose pipes, kids with water guns, teens in trucks with buckets and barrels of water and adults doing all of the above! Such a great day. I spent it on the side of the road with a bucket and a gun throwing water at people on mopeds!! and the best thing was they loved it, cheering as they got annihilated in the face!!!
During all of this I had befriended t english guys called ollie and barney who I am now hanging out with, we decided to go out that evening to the foam party which was on the beach and my god what a great night, it was just a mass of thousands of people having a super fun time and getting wasted, then made our way to the massive club and continued to party until the break of dawn!
Fun times indeed!
So that pretty brings us up to now, im still in samui and having a good time and will update you guys in a wee while!
Kisses to all xxx
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