- - 70 km south of Suratthani with beautiful and clean beaches. This region is not yet captured by the big touristic boom. Here you will find secret bays and beaches and only a handful resorts or hotels. If you are looking for a quiet, relaxing paradise, join Khanom now. Also you should visit Samui island.
Phangan island
- With Samui's accommodations fast going upmarket, Koh Pha Ngan has become the favorite destination for the backpack set and those with a stronger spirit of adventure. Pha Ngan is almost as big as Samui, and lies off the latter's north shore, in clear view and just a half-hour boat ride away. But Pha Ngan is much less developed, having only a rudimentary system of rough tracks criss-crossing the island and linking only some of the beaches.
- Over a hundred small budget bungalow resorts ring the island, offering a range of accommodation from extremely remote and semi-primitive to the moderately priced, comfortable places that completely line Haad Rin beach, which also has a small village with restaurants, discos and bars This is also site of the famous Full Moon Party, when thousands gather on the same beach for the rising of the full moon from the sea.
- Pha Ngan is easily accessed by daily ferry boats from Suratthani, or from Maenam and Bophut piers in Samui. These boats call at Thong Sala and Haad Rin from where many resorts are accessed by pickup truck over rough tracks. A few can only be reached by small boat. Some resorts have perched individual huts up on high, rocky points and in other off-beat, natural settings. There are few telephones on Pha Ngan and the resorts have to generate their own electricity while some bungalows offer only oil lamps.
- The up-market Panvimarn Resort, which commands spectacular views across a double-beach bay on the northeast corner is the only exception to the basic bungalow accommodation, Koh Pha Ngan is particularly beautiful, being high and rugged, with rocky headlands of huge granite boulders separating the many tropical beaches set in coves lined with coconut palms.
Full moon party in Koh Phangan
Some six years ago, a group of tourists and the owner of Paradise Bungalow found that the most beautiful moon was in Koh Phangan. They arranged a party along the crescent-shaped beach of Haad Rin to celebrate the Full Moon night.
- From then on, people from all over the world came to join the celebration. And now there are 7,000-10,000 people at the party each month.
- The party begins at dusk, when the round yellow moon makes its appearance over the white sand beach. In twilight, small tables are lined up on the beach and thousands of lamps are lit.
- As the evening progresses the beach explodes into a dancing frenzy as different m.c.'s take their turn on the decks. There is something for everyone here, trance, techno, drum and bass, commercial dance and reggae, no-one is disappointed. Jugglers and fire-eaters entertain the crowds as the night goes on and with the brilliant impromptu fireworks display, the party atmosphere is complete. After a few hours it could be time to chill-out for a while, maybe grab a drink or a bite to eat from one of the many beach traders and wade out or sit down in the warm surf of the Gulf of Thailand, pure, pure heaven.
- Revived and relaxed it's time to return to the main beach and get blown into another dancing dimension, while all around people are doing the same, there are no barriers here, no inhibitions, just people enjoying themselves with one unified intention, to rejoice in the magic that is the paradise of FULL MOON PARTY!
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