Ko Pha Ngan – birthplace of the original ‘full moon party’ – a party lasting all night long and held on the beach of Haad Rin, every full moon. Originally beginning in the 80’s amongst a small group of travellers, news of the all-night rave began to spread by word of mouth and these days up to 30 000 partygoers make… Read more →
Tag: Beach
Krabi – Home to Thailand’s Most Beautiful Beaches
Krabi is postcard perfect. Seriously. With its majestic limestone karsts forming the incredible coastline and jutting out of the sea, its perfect white beaches – it’s an amazing place to spend days that turn into weeks that turn into months… We came to Krabi as a last minute change of plans. With Mike heading into a three week swing at… Read more →
A Day Trip to Manukan Island
The Borneo part of our Malaysian adventure started in Kota Kinabalu. With originally 2.5 days to spend in the area, this quickly reduced to one full day – delays with our flight meant we didn’t arrive until evening on our first day, and our last day was taken up by a visit to the Aussie pub in KK to watch… Read more →
Pulau Weh – Learning Patience in Paradise
It was one of the first destinations I’d eyed off when putting our itinerary together – Pulau Weh, north of the Aceh province in Sumatra. The sandy shores, world class diving and snorkelling, lush rainforests and beach-side bungalows. It seemed the perfect first stop on our nomadic existence journey… Getting there was the first hurdle. Not realising it was Ramadhan,… Read more →