New Year on Soi Bangla

New Year 2008 on Phuket was a blast; I have never seen better fireworks or more people cluttering up Patong Beach and Soi Bangla. This is truly proof that this season must have been the best on Phuket ever, with hotels being booked already a long time in advance.

Absolute monstrous amounts of people moving through Soi Bangla to the beach:

The fireworks, unluckily a mobile is (still) no real replacement for a camera...:

I spent for sure more than an hour on the beach of Patong, together with other party-goers and watched the show and the people. A pure happy moment and lots of good intentions for the coming year (this blog being one of them)...

The next big event on my personal party calendar will be Thai New Year (Songkran), when Soi Bangla will be transformed in a big waterfighting arena. I actually relish to be as crazy as the next tourist innocent of knowing about the deeper meaning of Songkran and just join in the mayhem...

Links of Interest:

• Patong Beach
  
• Patong Nightlife
• Patong New Year Videos on YouTube