Chilled day on Koh Phangan

We sunbathed in the bar area of the Blue parrot for a while then took a walk down the beach, we found a bigger hotel/hostel which had a pool.  Most hotels which have pools don't mind non guests using their facilities as long as you buy a drink from their bar, so that is what we did and we stayed most of the day.  We sunbathed and messed about in the pool. We met an American couple who had been travelling around the islands, they told us they had been to Krabi and Phi Phi, and that there wasn't much there.  They told us the there was plenty to do on Koh Samui which was a good thing as that was where we were heading.  I'd still like to head to Krabi and PhiPhi one day though.

Later that day we took a walk down into the town, we actually walked past the pier where we had gotton off the boat the day before, it was in easy walking distance at night but we defiantly did the right thing in getting a taxi when we first arrived, it would of been to far in the mid-day heat, especially with our backpacks.

  As we walked along the ocean front towards the town we could hear some loud music, as we got closer we could see people dancing, two on a platform and about 8 others in front of them copying the steps, it was a Zubma class! 

 We wondered around the shops, bought some more friendship brackets and some bottles of water and then found somewhere to eat.  I had a Greek salad which was really nice and the girls had a selection of Thai dishes which they shared.  The whole sharing concept seemed to totally baffle the Thai's, they couldn't understand why we wanted all the food in the middle of the table.  This was a good night, the food was great, (I even tried some of the Thai food!), we laughed, tried to learn Thai off our waiter, took pictures and laughed our arses off when Steph Steph totally freaked out when she though she had a lizard on her foot, when she'd calmed down a little I tickled her leg with my flip flop and screamed 'lizard' and we all cracked up again!

My first impressions of Koh Phangan were that the people were so friendly, the weather was amazing, and I loved it, they have gym classes on the beach for god sake!  There are lots of stray dogs, but they keep themselves to themselves, they don't beg for food and don't follow people about, they aren't thin and look happy, as far a stray dogs go they looked in pretty good condition.

The streets smell, but no where near as bad as Bangkok. On our way back to the hostel we picked up some beers and sat outside our room until the earlier hours, drinking and laughing.  We called over to a scotish guy, who was in the bunglow opposite ours to come and join us, he was travelling alone and seemed quite shy, we nick named William Wallace.  At some point in the night we packed our bags ready for moving on the next day, we planned to get up early and move before the sun got to hot...