The five of us (us, Natasha, James and David) left the resort for the Full Moon party in Haad Rin at 10.30pm which was a shocker as normally we are considering going to bed at that time. With the truck scheduled to collect us again at 4.30am, we all figured it would be a long, long night for us thirty-somethings! We were greeted by eight million people on the beach (well, OK around 8000 then) and most of them seemed to want to talk to us. We soon realised that this wasn't for our scintillating conversation but chemically-induced euphoria and we sat back for a while and watched groups of people chewing maniacally, talking to trees and dancing
like they were receiving electric shock treatment. Purchasing our Thai whiskey bucket (we kid you not, it is literally a bucket with straws in containing Thai whiskey, another unidentified spirit called M32 and cola) we weaved our way through the throngs of
surprisingly chilled out people with not a fight in sight. We traversed the beach trying to choose which party to join and settled on the R&B/hip hop Cactus Club which seemed to have an older crowd and the largest proportion of drunk not chemically intoxicated people! We partied, danced, drunk and sweated under the moonlight and amongst heaving bodies until 4.30am and then were sad to leave. Driven back by a beautiful lady boy, 10 of us squeezed into an open truck designed to take 6 and we followed the convoys of scooters and taxi's back to our resort. We sat round a beach fire and watched the sunrise until collapsing in bed, not to see the sunlight again until the following afternoon. Hangovers all round and the resort gave everyone free coconut to ease the pain until we collapsed into bed gratefully at 10pm again. We awoke to the sad news of 15 backpackers drowning and more on the missing list when a boat leaving the Full Moon party to Koh Samui had collapsed under the weight of too many people onboard and no life jackets. This further highlights the dangers of transport in Thailand and we were shocked that a night of such fun could end so fatally in a country that seems so tragically accident prone at the moment.
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