Koh Phangan Safari

I haven't written on this blog for about three weeks so I am going to try and remember everything we have done... After exploring the island on the moped - the locals found it really funny that we were wearing bike hats as none of them do-  we decided it would be a good idea to book an organised tour. We'd had snatches of sun and a few hot days but as the week went on the rain was getting worse. We booked a tour for the next day and that night it was the worst rain yet, it kept us up because it was so loud- in the morning I expected to see everything had flooded. We were picked up and sat in the back of these trucks they convert into taxis by putting seats in the back. We made friends with the people on our tour, who were all really interesting, there were around 12 of us with nationalities from America, Finland, Israel, Australia, South Africa and of course England! The day was so packed we went to the Chinese Temples, the island's waterfall, saw elephants, had an archery lesson, went to the beaches, had a herbal sauna and saw thai boxing. I got taught  by one of the boxers for a bit, he said I had a hard kick! It was a really good day, by the end we were exhausted and we got back found out the Black Moon Party had been cancelled because of the rain, so we had a few drinks with the other people staying where we were.


Whilst we were on Koh Phangan we ate really good thai food, it is usually the places that look the worst that are the best. Every night we went to the market and chose our veg by putting into a basket and then it would be made into a noodle dish. One night we got a puncture on the moped when we drove down, so we took it straight to a garage, which charged us 60 baht with is the equivalent of one pound twenty. We found out afterwards the place we rented them from would have charged us sixteen pounds. We have spoken to lots of people that have been scammed by the rental place claiming you have scratched the bikes when you haven't and making them pay so it was good that we sorted it out ourselves.

We left Koh Phangan after nine days, we had a great time there..lots of it spent lying in a hammock and exploring the island, but the last few days the weather had been so awful it meant we were excited to leave and head over to Krabi.