We checked in at Beck's resort. It was a 12 minute walk from the town of Thong Sala. We headed immediately for a late lunch/ early dinner as we were pretty hungry. Thinking eating is all we are doing on this trip - yes it is a big part of the culture here. We stopped in a restaurant Chelsea and I frequently ate at the last time we were here, Krupen Thai. They remembered us which was pretty awesome. Chelsea found pinapple fried rice. We all had 2 plates each. We walked off the meal to a food market so we could pick up papaya and mandarins for the morning. Mark and Chantal took in sunset at our resort. We wouldn't miss the next days.
Day 8 Full Moon
We found the food market at Prantip. It was a maze of carts and vendors offering thai food, chicken (BBQ and deep fried), hot dogs, donuts, seafood. They had fruit shakes for 20 baht (66 cents). As much fruit and veggies that you can put in a shake. We ended up getting at least 2 each day from the same vendor. Mark and Matt shared a thin crust pizza for 3 bucks. Pad Thai was also a favourite here. Man we ate. Dessert was a butter cream roll and a fresh made Bavarian cream donut. Chantal had 3 (although she said she shared with Mark LOL).
We had our warm up party in our room before the full moon. We had our buckets and headed to the beach. It was pretty packed. There is usually 20-30K so it was relatively quiet. There was probably about 10,000 people that had descended upon Haad Rin Nak (Sunrise Beach). We didn't make it to sunrise - probably a good thing. The music and the partiers weren't quiet though. All types of music along the beach (pop, reggae, trance, hiphop, ok no country).
Day 9 Active day
After a late night we all slept in but grabbed another shake and breakfast at Krupen. We spent more time walking around Thong Sala shopping and booking our next few nights in Koh Samui. We decided to go back instead of staying here another few nights as there wasn't much selection during peak time and season. Lunch at Prantip was BBQ chicken for the guys and noodle soup for the ladies.
We headed back to the resort for an afternoon kayak around the bays. We found a possible hotel site (I think if we win the lottery for though). It was overcast so the sun didn't burn us. It was a quick but fun trip for 6 bucks for all of us in 2 kayaks.
Mark and Chantal caught the last sunset on Koh Phangan, Chelsea had a nap and Matt played Soccer sorry Football with the FC Farangs (foreigners in Thai). Most were ex pats from England and Denmark. They decided stop drinking so many beers and be active for 2 hours Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Other travellors were from Spain, Italy, Burma, and Korea. The play was pretty good, the pitch was not. My white shirt came back brown. It was still worth it. Of course afterwards we all went out for a pint and watched the Manchester (United vs City) game.
We had our last soup, pad thai, bbq chicken and donuts at Prantip market. What an awesome place.
Day 10 Back to Samui
We had our last breakfast at Krupen before taking the ferry back to Samui. Oops we took the wrong ferry and are on the other side of the island. We did this on the way over as well. Gotta love island time, ferry scheduled to leave at 1230 we left at 115 (its arrival time). Glad we ate lunch before.
We are feeling like seasoned travellors now bartering with any taxi as we know the prices now.
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