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Haad Rin's Sunrise beach
Haad Rin is a peninsular beach area and town on the southern tip of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. Its two main beaches are Sunset Beach (Haad Rin Nai) to the south and the larger Sunrise Beach (Haad Rin Nok) to the north.
I went to Ko Pha Ngan island in the first place because it is well known for its party culture as well as its beautiful beaches. It seemed like the perfect place to spend my last couple days in the country.
My initial plan was to end up at a full moon party - which is a monthly electronic music festival that apparently draws crowds up to 40,000 people... It is held at sunrise beach in Haad Rin, which as you will see is not that giant... and is known for being a bit crazy... but unfortunately I landed in the country a day before the full moon party was due to take place - and my flight home didn't allow me to attend the next one either.
The full moon party - as a concept, has taken off a bit in Thailand, and you can attend various full moon parties around the country. But Haad Rin will always be the original.
I had to settle for the half moon party, which in december, 2013 fell on the 9th. And it was the 9th! I had transportation to the half moon party booked - it was due to pick me up at my guest house at 10pm. I didn't really know where it would take me, or what to expect at the half moon party - aside from large crowds of intoxicated white people... but either way, that was still 12 hours away. I had a full day, so I got the guest house owner to drop me off at Haad Rin, and I found my way to Sunrise beach.
The weather was perfect, the sand and the water were too, and there were beach babes everywhere. The one downside was the occasional garbage you'd see on the ground, remnants from the last party.. Most of it was at the one end of the beach, closer to the water taxis, but I didn't get any pictures of the nasty part of the beach..
I claimed a spot for myself and started reading a book. I had just finished a Iain M. Banks novel the other day, although I can't remember which one. This was the new book I was starting to read:
At one point three beautiful girls and a menacing looking dude sat down right beside me.
Beautiful girls in bikinis tend to distract me from reading. And when the topless girl turned to me and asked me if I could take a picture of the group, I enthusiastically accepted the request. Topless girls never turn to me and try to talk to me. It just doesn't happen. So this sort of caught me off guard, especially since she was so nonchalant about her bosoms. Didn't she know that by turning in my direction and talking to me it meant I got to see her bits? Apparently this was not a problem. It was not a problem for me either. I walked up to her, and as gracefully and respectfully as I could, I accepted her camera into my hand.
I was caught a bit off my guard, but I do know how to take pictures, so I took a couple steps back and started trying to frame the group into a nice shot, with a respectable backdrop, good composition, and so on..
But then.. "No.. from the back"
"Oh"
A topless picture from behind does indeed make a lot more sense. Sometimes I am just too oblivious.. But nobody seemed to mind, and neither did I.
This was exactly the sort of laid back, beautiful, and "interesting" place I wanted to find myself in near the end of my trip.
The water was great. I went for a couple swims and spent the rest of the time tanning and reading.
Haad Rin is a peninsular beach area and town on the southern tip of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. Its two main beaches are Sunset Beach (Haad Rin Nai) to the south and the larger Sunrise Beach (Haad Rin Nok) to the north.
I went to Ko Pha Ngan island in the first place because it is well known for its party culture as well as its beautiful beaches. It seemed like the perfect place to spend my last couple days in the country.
My initial plan was to end up at a full moon party - which is a monthly electronic music festival that apparently draws crowds up to 40,000 people... It is held at sunrise beach in Haad Rin, which as you will see is not that giant... and is known for being a bit crazy... but unfortunately I landed in the country a day before the full moon party was due to take place - and my flight home didn't allow me to attend the next one either.
The full moon party - as a concept, has taken off a bit in Thailand, and you can attend various full moon parties around the country. But Haad Rin will always be the original.
I had to settle for the half moon party, which in december, 2013 fell on the 9th. And it was the 9th! I had transportation to the half moon party booked - it was due to pick me up at my guest house at 10pm. I didn't really know where it would take me, or what to expect at the half moon party - aside from large crowds of intoxicated white people... but either way, that was still 12 hours away. I had a full day, so I got the guest house owner to drop me off at Haad Rin, and I found my way to Sunrise beach.
The weather was perfect, the sand and the water were too, and there were beach babes everywhere. The one downside was the occasional garbage you'd see on the ground, remnants from the last party.. Most of it was at the one end of the beach, closer to the water taxis, but I didn't get any pictures of the nasty part of the beach..
I claimed a spot for myself and started reading a book. I had just finished a Iain M. Banks novel the other day, although I can't remember which one. This was the new book I was starting to read:
At one point three beautiful girls and a menacing looking dude sat down right beside me.
Beautiful girls in bikinis tend to distract me from reading. And when the topless girl turned to me and asked me if I could take a picture of the group, I enthusiastically accepted the request. Topless girls never turn to me and try to talk to me. It just doesn't happen. So this sort of caught me off guard, especially since she was so nonchalant about her bosoms. Didn't she know that by turning in my direction and talking to me it meant I got to see her bits? Apparently this was not a problem. It was not a problem for me either. I walked up to her, and as gracefully and respectfully as I could, I accepted her camera into my hand.
I was caught a bit off my guard, but I do know how to take pictures, so I took a couple steps back and started trying to frame the group into a nice shot, with a respectable backdrop, good composition, and so on..
But then.. "No.. from the back"
"Oh"
A topless picture from behind does indeed make a lot more sense. Sometimes I am just too oblivious.. But nobody seemed to mind, and neither did I.
This was exactly the sort of laid back, beautiful, and "interesting" place I wanted to find myself in near the end of my trip.
The water was great. I went for a couple swims and spent the rest of the time tanning and reading.