Beginnings: quite moments at the start
Sitting on my backpack out the back of a ferry traveling from Koh Samui to Koh Phangan, I captured the above photograph thinking, “yep, now I’m on holiday!” So I locked up my camera and pulled down my sun glasses, soaking up the perfection!
Once of the ferry, I headed into the throng of people waiting on the pier looking for a tuk tuk to take me out to my partner in crime, and the inspiration for this trip. After waiting for 20 minutes I gave up on tuk tuks waiting for more passengers going my way, taking the reassurances of a local cyclo driver that he could get me and my backpack where I wanted to go. After asking a few cyclo’s where the accommodation was along the way, we made it to Pink’s a collection of basic bungalows and restaurant at the end of a sand road.
Pink’s bungalows, in Bin Tan down the sandy road across from 7/11 was cheap as chips, literary, and a quick Tuk Tuk ride away from both Tong Sala and Had Rin.
Pink’s Bungalows
71 m2 Banntai
Koh Phangan
p. +66-77238373
f. +66-77238375
email: pinks-linda@hotmail.com
The five days we spent on Koh Phangan were a creative mix of gorgeous tropical weather and potent alcoholic buckets. The full moon party, which was everything a few thousand people, cheesy music, cheap alcohol, and a beach could possibly be, was also the perfect new years–somewhere where they aren’t going to kick you out for wearing sandals and shorts, or dancing a little bit ridiculously. The following are images from the quieter moments on the Island.
Jenna and I would share many a “Asian” Lipton Ice Tea, calling it “crack”, it was highly addicting for us sugar addicts.
On my second day on Koh Phangan, sitting in the back of a Tuk Tuk on our way to Tong Sala.
Given the state of our accommodation, Jenna takes advantage of various reflective surfaces to make sure she is still rolling in style!
Just down from the pier and across a pebbly flat is this beach. Jenna takes a moment to cool off in the shallows.
“Sea shells and senoritias.”
The only evidence of an epic new years and our few days of existence at Pinks.
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