full moon party

The full moon party was on Haad Rin, a beach on Ko Phangan (an island off Thailand) and around 10,000 people go to each one. I arrived not expecting to really enjoy it, thinking it'd just be a bunch of gross drunken idiots all bopping along to trance music. I was partly right - there were thousands of shirtless guys drinking alcohol from buckets and slutty girls with 'shag me' painted on them, people being dragged out of the ocean passed out drunk, and lots of general grossness. There were so many people that I was sure I'd get lost but when we headed to the northern part of the beach towards Mellow Mountain it became alot more chilled out and there was cool music, space to play poi, and lots of blacklights for painting ourselves in dayglo paint under. I got to watch some amazing poi spinners, met some really awesome people, watched the sunrise, stayed at the party until about 10am the next day, and had one of the best nights ever. Unfortunately I couldn't really work my camera so ended up with only acouple of photos; this one is of Jannie and Marie.