I had spent the past two days on buses and I was about to
spend one more on the train. I usually don’t rush things but the full moon
party doesn't wait for anyone. When I got on the train, it started moving
early... like half an hour early. Seeing as I was one of the only people on it I
started to panic slightly. It turned out that they were “testing” it...which is
what I gathered from hand gestures from the locals on the train. I almost had a
heart attack thinking I was in a train destined for who knows where.
When I woke up, I realized that we had been delayed by a
couple of hours… off the train to a bus and then a waiting area. We spent about
2 hours waiting, took another bus and then found out that we had missed the
boat that was supposed to take us to Koh Phangan. We were stuck and had to wait
until 1pm! Now let’s keep in mind that the full moon party was that same day… and
that apparently (as I found out then) it was high season in southern Thailand and
the whole island was most likely going to be fully booked. I, off course, had nothing reserved and as I
talked to everyone around me it seemed like that was going to be a bad move. But
hope was not lost, I met 2 really nice Canadian girls from Vancouver Tasha and Maddy who were just starting their trip and they told me that I could come stay
with them (that’s if we ever made it there … )
To pass the time, we went swimming but within the fist 10 minutes
Maddy got stung by a jelly fish... nothing was going too well…
We met two other girls Kim and Janine from the Netherlands and we had a drink and
joked around trying to pass the time.
The boat was late off course and we made it to the island at
around 6 pm… thankfully Tasha and Maddy adopted me and the 3 of us shared a loft for
my remaining time at Koh Phangan where we passed
4 wonderful crazy days.
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