The next stop on our South East Asia tour was the small island of Koh Phanagn off of the east coast of Thailand. After a long-tail boat ride from Railay we hopped onto a bus to cross from the west to the east coast of Thailand, then we took a 3 hour ferry ride, then jumped into a pickup truck taxi to finally make it to our hostel in the island of Koh Phangan, known around for the world for their infamous 'Full Moon Parties.' We got in late in the afternoon andwent on a mission to figure out how to get to Bangkok...After figuring out that 'minor' detail we decided to check out the 'full moon party' even though it wasn't a full moon.It turned out to be a pretty spectacular event, if your into a 
party on the beach that includes: fire spinners, fire spinners on stilts,a flaming jump rope, sand pails of liquor, cheapbeer, o and thefact that we were in Thailand? Well yea, If you like that sort of thing then you could say it was a spectacular party... or as one my fellow travelers always said ("it was the cat's meow"). And yes, if you were wondering. I DID do the flaming jump rope... more once, o and the flaming hoop jump (not pictured). Both were pretty darn exhilarating. Well the next day we wandered around the little
island town looking for some more delicious Thai food and seeing what there was to be seen. During the day we saw more of the infamous 'Bucket o' Liquor,' basically a concoction of your liquor of choice, and a mixer conveniently sold in a the form of a bucket, all for the low price of around US$6. Not bad... Well I spent most of the day sitting on the beach, dreading leaving this island paradise, with clean air, blue skies, and my beloved beach.... because the next stop was back to the dirty, smoggy, polluted, crowded city of Bangkok....This was the my last view I had before leaving on tour of what seemed like every possible form of transportation that Thailand has to offer...
