At the Full Moon Party in Koh Phangan i collapsed in the middle of the street 30 minutes after drinking alcohol from the famous Buckets that they sell there.
As a first time tourist in Thailand i innocently thought that such a huge famous party will not allow for ***** up like this to happen, boy was i wrong.
I dont even remember most of it, i remember starting to feel a really weird high and then extremely dizzy and sick , next thing i remember is waking up in the hospital, (Friends called an Ambulance).
Initially we thought someone slipped Drugs or Roofies into my drink as an attempt to target one of the Girls that were with us but soon we realized that the alcohol was a cheap fake knock off sold in premium bottles for premium prices.
What i thought was a Bucket of Johnny Walker Black Label with Coke actually turned out to be a very cheap and extremely toxic alcohol knock off with dangerous levels of
Ethanol, the Doctor said i was lucky that i did not drink the entire bucket (Most likely because was already a little drunk) as it could have lead to permanent damage or possibly death.
So spent the 3 days after that feeling like absolute **** in the ER, completely missing out every single one of my Koh Tao dives that i have scheduled 2 days prior to that, when i was finally released i had to head back to Bangkok to catch my flight back home... not to mention my hospital bill racked up to about 4,000$ (Thank god for travels insurance).
Overall, was a hell of an experience. Its fine to drink alcohol there but make sure you buy it from a 7/11 in a sealed closed bottle, they cant mess with you there.
, other wise would have probably never gone there.
