Pha Ngan Island is located in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand about 100 km from the mainland and about 15 km from Samui Island. The Islans is about 168sq km. Most of total area is mountains and tropical forest. Lowlands are beaches and coconut fields.

Over a hundred small budget bungalow resorts ring the island, offering a range of accommodation from extremely remote and semi-primitive to the moderately priced, comfortable places that completely line Haad Rin beach, which also has a small village with restaurants, discos and bars This is also site of the famous Full Moon Party, when thousands gather on the same beach for the rising of the full moon from the sea.

Pha Ngan Island is easily accessed by daily ferry boats from Suratthani, or from Maenam and Bophut piers in Samui Island. These boats call at Thong Sala and Rin Beach from where many resorts are accessed by pickup truck over rough tracks. A few can only be reached by small boat. Some resorts have perched individual huts up on high, rocky points and in other off-beat, natural settings. There are few telephones on Pha Ngan Island and the resorts have to generate their own electricity while some bungalows offer only oil lamps.

Full Moon Party in Phangan Island Some six years ago, a group of tourists and the owner of Paradise Bungalow found that the most beautiful moon was in Pha Ngan Island. They arranged a party along the crescent-shaped beach of Rin Beach to celebrate the Full Moon night.

From then on, people from all over the world came to join the celebration. And now there are 7,000-10,000 people at the party each month.

The party begins at dusk, when the round yellow moon makes its appearance over the white sand beach. In twilight, small tables are lined up on the beach and thousands of lamps are lit.

As the evening progresses the beach explodes into a dancing frenzy as different m.c.'s take their turn on the decks. There is something for everyone here, trance, techno, drum and bass, commercial dance and reggae, no-one is disappointed. Jugglers and fire-eaters entertain the crowds as the night goes on and with the brilliant impromptu fireworks display, the party atmosphere is complete. After a few hours it could be time to chill-out for a while, maybe grab a drink or a bite to eat from one of the many beach traders and wade out or sit down in the warm surf of the Gulf of Thailand, pure, pure heaven.

Revived and relaxed it's time to return to the main beach and get blown into another dancing dimension, while all around people are doing the same, there are no barriers here, no inhibitions, just people enjoying themselves with one unified intention, to rejoice in the magic that is the paradise of FULL MOON PARTY !