Wat Plai Laem & USM (again)

Since we had a bit of extra time, we decided to visit Wat Plai Laem (15 minutes away from Lanna). It seemed slightly more impressive than Wat Pho in Bangkok.

   
    
    

For lunch, instead of eating pad Thai, I decided to try something different. I got something called noodle soy sauce.

  
Also, just wanted to point out that USM is actually a pretty big outdoor airport, which almost feels like a resort (the only thing it lacks is AC). And, there’s complimentary food at the Bangkok Airways waiting area also (I only ate the popcorn though because if the risk level lol).

  
 

Full Moon Party

We started off the night by going on a speed boat that took us from Ko Samui to Ko Phangan. Not gonna lie, the speed boat went pretty fast and was definitely not as safe as it could be (what people said online was accurate).

Arriving at Ko Phangan, we had to pay 100 baht to enter (but we did get these interesting bracelets in return):

  
After entering the gates, we quickly looked for some sort of string to tie our drink “buckets”. These buckets pretty much housed all our drinks for the entire night (Jack Daniels + Red Bull + Coke). The entire night, we bought 5 buckets in total, so Sam and drank a bit more than 2 buckets each.

  
  
We also got some glow in the dark tattoos to blend in…

   
 
The beach area was filled with venues where you could hear different types of house music (deep, minimal, progressive). Unfortunately no trance music.
   
    
   

  
  
We got to also play with the fire at the beach (this is obviously something I wouldn’t do sober).

   
 
And the last experience (no pics of this) is that for guys to take a piss, you literally just go in the ocean.

 To sum it up, the full moon part is simply a beach party where EDM music is played, you drink out of buckets to get really drunk, you get UV activated tattoos, and you eat a lot of junk food. With that said, I had an awesome time. 

We ended up going back from the party around 4:00am.