Ok so after a few more days relaxing with the pup and enjoying chilled out Lanta, Lek and Malay, (who owned the place we were staying at and became good friends of ours) were kind enough to drive us all the way to Hat Yai. It was a new take on stopping at a service station - stopping by the side of the road at a shack and having ant soup - literally whole ants and their eggs... surprisingly tasty! Anyway it was an adventure and so kind of them to take us, as soon as we arrived however Claudia and I were whisked away by private taxi to the Malaysian border... surreal stepping into a country for 2 seconds, but it got us the free visa we needed... When we returned to Hat Yai we knocked for Lek and George and were treated to a night out on the town, I think we almost ate Hat Yai itself with the amount of food Lek kindly bought us! Weird and wonderful dishes, flavours I cannot describe!
We sadly said our goodbyes to Lek the next morning, we were so thankful for her kindness to us, she treated us like family and we will always remember her and the family! A long journey - mini van, coach, boat, sangthaw....and we were back!!! Koh Pan Gnan was ours for 10 days - and we embraced it!! Over the week we built up a fabulous crew of people to party with - firstly Mariane, Claudia and Emily joined us, then Juliet, India, Dominique and Hamish...then we met a few others along the way..Dana and Graham in particular, our lovely neighbourghs.... there was a nice big group of us, and everyone was fabulous and fun, we spent our days by the pool, or biking around the island or lazing in lazyhouse! In the evening we rocked it out into the early hours, good memories of mushroom mountain night, never laughed so much before!! Dancing on the beach like duracell bunnies, buckets in hand!! Over the course of the week the island got busier and busier and the energy was growing every day, by the time it hit full moon party everyone was amped! We spent the begining of the night consuming many a beverage and painting ourselves up, then hitting the beach and enjoying the madness that is full moon party... great night and dancing till the sun rose with thousands of people in a good mood, is definitely the way to party!
A day to recover and reflect and sadly we were on our way to Bangkok, luckily we went out with a bang enjoying the Thai new year - Song Kran (huge continuous water fight, all day and night) which was a blast and plenty of shopping whilst avoiding the riots that were going on...we were fine, although did keep ending up a little to close for comfort whilst on tuk tuk journeys! We sadly had to say goodbye to our friends and Thailand...it really was heart breaking and we almost didn't get on the plane! I don't think this is the end of it...we'll be back soon!! Thanks for reading and hope to see all of you soon!
All our love,
Soph and Claud xx
