In the evening we also meet up with the candian girls again and with the six of us we enjoy a great meal in one of the many good places on the beach. Here in Thailand you can see the latest movies in all the cafe's without paying for it! The illegal copy is the most normal thing there. After seeing two movies (entrapment and american pie which is an excellent movie!!) we went to the beach to get some drinks in. We were with the six of us and met up with two other guys on the beach as well. After having had six of those mix-drinks, so one and a half bottle of whisky, i went for a piss in the ocean and then for some reason i just crashed on the sand!! I couldn't get my head up anymore and just kept on digging holes on the beach and puked my guts out! Sorry for this disgusting story; but now that i started i'll have to continue of course! So this was at about two o'clock. The others went back around 2.30, but had to leave me there near the waterfront because i simply could not stand up at all!! And i can tell you, i did not enjoy that fact very much! So, there i lay, trying to focus on the moon, but it was hard, very hard! I tried a few times to get up, but it was useless to try. So, finally i fell asleep and at 5.30 in the morning i woke up and felt... crap as!! But i could walk a bit and made it to the hut. Completely sandy i fell in my bed and slept till one in the afternoon. I felt quite bad when i woke up you can imagine and the rest of the day my eyes just looked so BAD that i couldn't do anything else than keep my sunnies on all the time! It's nine in the evening whn i feel ok again, but no sang tip for me this night! It's just so suddenly that you get hit by that stuff; completely different to beer where you know when to stop! The thai massage on the beach in the afternoon made me feel a bit better again but it was so strange to wake up in at that beach! Everybody was gone, even the tables! Well, that's what you get when you appreciate the local mix-drinks!

The next day we do basically nothing. A bit of hanging around on the beach, enjoying a real thai-massage and swimming is about it! That night we don't try the local drink again. Read about this evening in the fairy-tale below:
The magic mushroom experience:
Once upon an evening we met two irish guys on the beach of this amazing beautiful island, called koh phan gnang... They told us about this place where you could get these very nice tasting milkshakes. Simply order at the bar. So, once upon the next evening we meet up with these guys and together with our 4 candian friends (2 boy, 2 girl) we go to that bar on the hillside; there where the blue lights are... This bar is very, very cosy with hammocks, matresses and a beautiful view. Now there is a choice to be made: small 300 (18 gulden) baht or large 500 (30 gulden) baht.... Hmmm, we never entered this magic-mushroom-shake experience before so we decide to go for the small option. Shakes are being serverd and taste quite nice actually. Then the waiting begins. Staring at eachother. Do you feel something? No, you? Let's get a beer. I feel a bit drunk (after half a zip...). Let's get to the beach. Half an hour later... You feel something? Yep, a bit like being stoned or quite drunk in a nice way. You seen mermaids coming out of the water raping you? Nope. Hm. Colors in the sky? Nope. Nope? Nope. The two candian guys and this guy called marco think it is about time to get another shake. Hang on a bit the experienced irish say. OK. Five minutes later. Let's get in that bar again! So, Ken, Steve and Marco get up those stairs and get in the bar. The bar does not feel that nice anymore; too busy, altough it's quite empty. Things are moving a bit. Brr, strange! Let's get that shake and get back on the beach Steve says. "OK", that's Ken. Three LARGE shakes please. Okelydokely the bartender says. Back on the beach we drink those shakes as they were the best drink ever... Two minutes later. You feel something? Yes. But that must be from the first shake then! Yep. So, it'll get stronger? Yep. Hmm. This guy, called marco, starts to feel heavier and heavier... He already is heavy, ok, but this feels like 'hope i won't sink in the sand!!'. Great thoughts flash through my head. There are colors and i feel like floating and sinking at the same time. Wierd! I keep smiling and grinning, my eyes are a bit wet... thinking back.... memories.... Two hours pass. Trees look like the funniest you ever saw and 'where is a fuckin' ligh-er!' (the irish guy; can't pronounce the word lighter properly; sooo funny). Peter seems to see mermaids, bones in the sand and faces of friends in rocks; out of this world (after only one shake; cheap!). The music further down on the beach gets louder and starts attrackting us. We manage to get up and make it to those sounds. Crash on the beach again and drink a few heinekens. It's after six when we make our way to our huts again. We've been talking about the most heavy subjects with the last four us. Wars, reason of living, ways to contribute to the world, is 2000 the end? and so on. And still eyes soooo awake; it's amazing! When the four of us finally make it to our beds, we sleep like roses happily ever after....

Well, after having read the story about our Kho Phan Gnang experience you can probably imagine that it was an awesome time there! So if you plan on going to Thailand, go to this island!! Don't go to Kho Samui or Phuket or something, they are far more touristy! We've been to Phuket as well but there is absolutly no comparison at all! Kho Phan Gnang is all backpackers and that gives a great atmosphere. We stayed in Phuket for one day. We rented a bike again and drove around the island. Here also beautiful beaches and palm trees, but you can see them in so many places....

Back to Bangkok. Not a luxurious hotel this time for us as we had ten months ago. After hearing from a lot of people about this Kho Shan Road area we find a nice place there. It indeed is a perfect location and very cosy. It's already the first night that we meet up agian with the four candian people we met before.

Read about the things we did at night:

Pad Pong and the eight backpackers...
This story tells about the experience of a couple of backpackers in Bangkok. A long, long time ago they all heard about this city Bangkok and with that they all heard about the Thai girls as well. Amazingly interesting stories came from all directions and from all the people they met who'd been in Bangkok. Apparently thai girls were very, very athletic and had great fantasies. Not actually just fantasies, cause all the fantasies they have are being worked out to real acts! "Whooo, wouldn't it be sooo cool to go there and see this with our own eyes?", one of the backpackers said. Oh yes baby, OH YES!! So there they are, a few months later, all in Bangkok together. Nerves start itching, eyes blinking in a strange way, and there we go... First it takes a serious detour with the local tuk-tuk (sort of a crap cab) but after swopping to a 'real' cab we get where we wanted to go to for such a long time: Pad Pong. Barely out of the cab this guy comes to us and offers us to see 'his' pussy's. He shows us a list and on there are the tricks; pussy shoots darts, pussy swallowing ping-pong balls, pussy blowing out candles on the birthdaycake, pussy eats fireworks, pussy opens bottles, pussy eats razors and... pussy shoots banana's!! After reading about this guy's pussies we can't resist the attraction ANY longer; we go in. There we are, the place we've been talking about for such a long, long time. Everybody's talking excitingly about their favorite trick which is about to be performed... We HAVE to order a drink, a VERY expensive one, but hey, that should be worth it, shouldn't it? Yes! So, sipping on our beers to make it last as long as possible, the show begins... We make our acqaintance with 'pussy eating ping-pong balls' and what do you think? It sux, and i don't mean the pussy with that... Still ready for the big stuff, hearts pounding hard in our chests, the next act starts; 'pussy blowing out candles'... It's so so sad! Fuck me!! Oh no, that's defititely NOT what i mean to say!!! Excitement flows out of our bodies, hearts stop pounding and with not much more to enjoy than our beers we lean on the bar... We get to know 'pussy shooting darts', 'pussy opening bottles' and 'pussy shooting bananas' but do we like it? Nope, it's simply disgusting!! No erotic feelings are being shown, faces showing thunderstorms, no pretty girls... It gets worse and worse and after some banana-shots we actually leave our half-full bottles of beer and get out of that place!! Where was the style, the grace and the pretty smiles, we ask eachother when we are in the open polluted air of bangkok again. Nobody knows...

The next evening we go a Thai-boxing arena. We get to see quite a few fights. Quite interesting, but also quite boring until one of those guys puts his knee on the other guy's nose... Knock out!! Whoehoe, how interesting all of a sudden! All together we stay for one week in Bangkok. That's long enough for a town like this. You can see another temple here every hour, but if you ask me... they are all the same!
So what else did we do? Oh yes, we also did a 3 in 1 tour. First we went to the Floating Markets, then to the River Kwae Bridge and the WWII Cemetary and to finish the day... correct, a temple! All nice to see, but very, very touristy.

Today it's already thursday again and our plane leaves to the Netherlands tomorrow... Very bizar... We are both looking forward to go back home again. The trip was an extremely good experience and we're definitely are going to do it again, but for now, it has been long enough and time to go back home!!

Marco