Shivamoon , Halfmoon, Blackmoon and Jungle Party are also big events on the island, attracting large crowds abusing excessively all kinds of narcotics and illegal substances. These parties run from 9 p.m. until noon the next day, hammering their terrible noise into the open air, leaving many villagers sleepless all night.
Imagine these night-long, noise polluting, most disturbing events happening in your area, or seeing these drugged individuals walking in your street.
No need to mention fatalities and injuries, the rising amount of drug-related accidents, robberies, and house break-ins.
In other major tourist areas in Bangkok, Phuket or Koh Samui, entertainment venues have to close at 2 a.m. Enforcing that measure on the above-mentioned places would reduce the problems. Better, of course, would be a total and unnegotiable ban, especially in and near residential areas, to bring back peace and a good night’s sleep.

We have heard this kind of thing before, the only difference this time is the fact that some of this came directly from the mouth of Pol Lt-Gen Wuthi Liptapallop, who is determined it would seem, to fight the drug problem in Thailand.

Time will tell if Koh Phangan will survive this onslaught and remain as it is now, I guess invetiable, things will change, it’s just a matter of time.

We will try and find out the new dates for the rescheduled parties and post them here for your information in a couple of days. A real downer for anyone who has just arrived on the island looking to party!

We will continue to keep an eye on what’s happening locally and as soon as we feel there is weather sufficient to allow a decent party on the island we will be there, until then we will be taking this time to perform some site upgrades and add some new features.

Things are starting to subside now, we haven’t had much rain today and the ground is starting to soak up all the excess water. Once the roads are fully open again we will resume our party reviews.

You have probably all heard the nightmare stories or the phrase ‘Phangan Tattoo’, but things are worse now than they have ever been.
In the last 2 days there have been 3 very serious accidents on the island involving tourists, one is possibly going to result in the death of the poor guy, I will try and find out for sure how he is.

The real problem lately is the increase in traffic, there are now many more cars on the island than there were even 6 months ago, what is even worse are the dozens of construction trucks that drive the Koh Phangan roads without a care.

Yesterday one poor chap was driving up the road in Ban Tai towards Thongsala, a truck was coming the other way taking up the entire road leaving the approaching tourist on a scooter no room. The truck did not even brake, he just sounded his horn and watched as he forced the guy off the road and onto the pavement, the bike bounced end over end down the road. I spoke with the poor guy’s sister today and she says he is fine except for a lot of cuts and bruises.

You need to keep something in mind at all times. If a truck hits you he knows he is better off if he kills you outright, that way he only has to pay for a funeral and not a massive hospital bill. I am not joking here, it’s the truth, life can be cheap in Thailand.

Be very careful out there folks.