More than 10,000 foreign tourists joined the popular Full Moon Party on Koh Pha-Ngan late Sunday night and the early hours of Monday under the watchful eye of security officials, the Pha-Ngan district chief said.
Pha-Ngan district chief Krirkkrai
Songthani dispatched 120 troops, police and Interior Ministry officials
to the designated area on the island’s Haad Rin Beach to maintain
security during the party.
Krirkkrai said the beach was crowed with partygoers and he had deployed the officials to prevent crime and drug abuse.
Haad Rin has been famed for its Full Moon Party celebrations for decades
but the parties had become notorious for drug and alcohol abuse.
Tourists reportedly liked to eat “magic mushrooms”, a kind of fungus
with hallucinatory effects, and regularly drank all night before passing
out on the beach. Clinics and hospitals were often full of exhausted
and hung-over tourists the following day.
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Tourists danced to the blaring music as security officers patrolled the beach.
Krirkkrai said the large turnout showed that foreign tourists had
regained confidence and were returning to both Koh Pha-Ngan and Koh Tao.
He said officials have measures in place to ensure the safety of
visitors and hoped they would return to visit the two islands.
Source - TheNation
