Full Moon Party
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The tourist party season in Southeast Asia traditionally gets underway at the end of the year with huge, head-thumping parties at Hat Rin beach on Thailand's Ko Pha Ngan island. Hat Rin has firmly established itself as Southeast Asia's premier rave venue, especially in the high season around December and January, but every month of the year travellers flock in for the Full Moon Party – something like Apocalypse Now without the war. Tens of thousands of party fiends from all corners of the world kick up the largely good-natured, booze- and drug-fuelled mayhem, dancing the night away on the squeaky white sand.

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Where?
Hat Rin, Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand

When?
Every month, on the night of the full moon (unless it falls on a Buddhist holiday)

How Long?
1 night
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