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Hi everyone we arrived in Ko Pagnan yesterday after a 20 hour journey to get here on a combination of tuk tuks, buses and boats. We had a place booked before we left the UK and we were not dissapointed when we arrived it's really beautiful called Milky Bay.
We were shattered after the journey so we checked in had a look around it's got a huge swimming pool, games room, private beach, gym (which we are gonna try and use though probably wont but it's a nice idea) and the rooms are beautiful. Felt ourselves really unwinding last night we had few beers and slept like a log. This morning we awoke to glorious sunshine (though not too hot) and headed for the beach, tonight we are going to watch a thai boxing match though not sure i will like it if they bleed! Tomorrow night is the full moon party so everything over here is getting ready for that.
Anyway not much to tell yet except we are really well and will update wih photos etc when we have been here a few days, lots of love to all at home hope everyone is well.
14th August - Hi everyone hope your all well back at home sorry we have not updated for a bit.
We are still in Ko Pagnan decided to stay on this island for a bit cause we are loving it! We stayed at Milky Bay for 5 nights and went to the Thai boxing which was great i have put some photos on today the guy at the end was huge think there is a photo of him and Joe.
We chilled out ate lots of great food and got ready for the full moon party. We ended up just by coincidence bumping into one of the lads that we went tubing with in Laos so we decided to meet with him and some of his mates at the full moon party. We got the taxi to the party with some other couples we had met and arrived at the party about 10.30ish. The Full Moon party happens once a month when there is a full moon (obviously) and is just like a crazy party on the beach lots of stalls set up selling not just drinks but buckets of drink it was mad! There is music all along the beach some places more hectic than others, I think there was 18,000 people everyone painted in body paint that glows in the dark so we had to join in the fun, we had a great time got back to the hotel about 5am. In the morning turns out i had been bitten by something all on my legs but had no idea what so decided to leave them till the next day but they were worse i could hardly walk and they were twice the size so I had to go to the chemist for them to look at them and straight away she said i had been bitten by sand flies and had suffered an illergic reaction to them and this had made them get infected (nice) anyway she gave me some antibiotics and they are starting to heal!
We loved staying at Milky Bay but had only one more night booked we asked if we could stay longer but they only had the expensive rooms left so we checked on the internet and found a place about thirty minutes away further round the island which was so cheap we had to book it we have paid 19 pounds for 4 nights its crazy!
We had met a great couple Neil & Sarah who were going snorkelling and were heading that way so they gave us a lift in the jeep which was great of them. On the way we passed an elephant sanctuary so fed the elephants which was cool! We arrived at the place and to be honest I was not expecting much for the money we have paid and what a great surprise we have a great room basic fair enough but its a beautiful wooden hut with a hammock outside, we are 1 minute from the beach and the restaurant sells I thinks some of the best food we have eaten so far the staff are all from Burma and are so friendly. The beach is so nice and the whole place has such a good feeling about it, dont think you could get more relaxed even if you tried. Anyway needless to say we have booked another 4 nights so are now staying till 18th or 19th August then going to head to Ko Tao to do some diving.
We have hired a motorbike and drove all round the island its great, we went kayacking yesterday and if i can get up early enough I am going to try and go to do yoga at a retreat we found 1km away. We have met some irish lads and some girls from switzerland so tonight we are all going the half moon party which apparently is set in the jungle somewhere so we are looking forward to that.
We have moved our date of flying to Oz by one week so fly on the 29th August now.
Anyway thanks for all you messages and emails everyone lots of love to all of you take care Gem & Joe xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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