Full moon festival

We headed to the other side of the island for the Full Moon festival. We took a Songthaew Taxi which is basically a Ute with bench seating zip ties in and a roof. Thankfully the roof goes over the drivers cab so you don’t get whacked with palm leaves like we did in Mekong.

We met a lovely couple in the songthaew who had been living in Koh Phangan for 5 months and gave us all the hot full moon tips on where to buy drinks (peach soju) and avoid the sketchy homemade alcohol, and where to get the glow body painting done and how to avoid having your hair burnt off by fire twirlers.

We had a great time at the full moon festival. There were heaps of other families. We got face paint, watched the fire twirling, danced to the music on the beach and when the cloud of marijuana above us got a little too thick we decided to head home.

Our new friends kept partying until 5am but we were home in bed by 12.30.

We’d heard wild stories of the full moon festival when we were backpacking around Thailand after uni and is still seems just as fun.Read more