We have been 1 week on the island now.Last Friday we left by minibus from Khao Sok to Surat Thani, which dropped us at a travel agency where we bought a ferry ticket to Ko Phangan. Had some lunch at the local market. A bus took us to the pier Don Sak which is about 1 hour ride from the town.
The ferry trip was slow and comfortable. It took about 2 hours from Don Sak to Ko Samui and another 30 mins to Ko Phangan. I worried that the weather might change. We were totally lucky with the weather in Khgao Sok, hardly anyrain, apart from a little rain the day before we left.
But rainy season was knocking on the door and I remembered our last year's trip to Ko Chang where we had nonstop rain all the time. On the beach that is really annoying, you can't really do anything then. The sky wasn't that inviting...
The ferry ride gave the touts plenty of time to work on us. I have been to Ko Phangan several times and I knew were I wanted to go though. Most people go there for the famous full moon party in Had Rin and I wanted to be as far away from that as possible. Thong Nai Pan is a beautiful beach in the Northeast of tzhe island which matched these requirements. Only, it's hard and expensive to get there. It's the worst road on the whole island and they make you pay for it- so this is a place where you go and stay then once you are there.
I talked to another German couple who originally wanted to go to this beach too.
We decided to share a taxi to Thong Nai Pan. On the way there we befriended with the taxi driver, who told us that his wife had a Thai restaurant. Arriving at the beach we checked in at the bungalow that belonged to the woman who organized our taxi. We rented a rustic, simple bungalow right on the beach. I was surprised it was empty and quite cheap but at night I found out why: it was just next door to a beach bar!
After a short night and a coffee I paid the bill and checked out immediately. Last evening it was too late to go around and find a nice accomodation but now in the morning we could see everything clearly in daylight. Having seen a few resorts, some of them had free rooms although the full moon party was ahead we decided to stay at the lovely Dreamland resort. Since it was low season, the prices were more than acceptable and the room was 10 times better than the one we slept the night before.
It was a one of their basic rooms for only 600 TBH due to low season but it had hot shower and was very clean:) They also served nice breakfast and a good Cappuccino there. For lunch and dinner we went to some other Thai restaurants on the road- I'm bored of these tourist-versions of Thai food mixed with burgers and sandwiches they serve at most resorts. The restaurant of our taxi driver's wife had excellent Thai food and good fish.
They had a pool at the resort and even a poolbar. We went for a swim in the sea every day and once went canoeing to the neighbouring beach Thong Nai Pan Noi.
getting up at 6am and even 5:30 was hard but the beautiful sunrise on the beach was definetely worth it!
sun rise on Thong Nai Pan Beach, Ko Phangan(1)
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sun rise on Thong Nai Pan Beach, Ko Phangan(2)
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