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I survived the Full Moon Party and made my way back to Hong Kong. The party was pretty cool, but not as crazy as I expected. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, but basically it is just like a giant club right on the beach. There's a bunch of different stages that play different kinds of music. Techno, club music, hip-hop, etc. It was definitely way more packed than the previous night with a couple thousand people on the beach. Boats were dropping off people directly on the beach coming from other islands and beaches. I was pretty tired from the previous night, so I ended up taking it pretty easy during the Full Moon Party. At least I got to take it all in. Overall the coolest part for me was from the first night when an awesome band played. It could have been Bob Marley himself up on stage.

The other cool thing was all the fire dancers on the beach. There had been fire dancers on Ton Sai Beach also, but the guys at the Full Moon Party were just over the top. It was unbelievable how fast they moved, tossing flaming sticks way up into the air and all sorts of other crazy moves. In general there was a lot of stuff with fire, such as: the flaming limbo stick, the giant burning skipping rope, the ring of fire, etc. It makes perfect sense if you think about it, get people drunk and let them play with fire. ;-)

Anyway, after the party I had a day to recover then I flew to Hong Kong. I got there on July 1st which happened to be the 10 year anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. I had no idea what was going on, but the friendly lady at the tourist info told me about the fire works that night. They were by far the biggest and longest fire works I've ever seen. It was almost ridiculous how long they went on, I think something like 45 minutes?? I'm not sure, but it was cool to see. There were thousands of people lining Nathan Street and the area around the art museum. I only got about half way down Nathan Street, so the fireworks were framed by skyscrapers on the left and right. It was pretty cool to catch this, especially since I had no idea about it before.

Now I'm back in Victoria sitting in my parents living room. It's almost surreal to be back here. Everything in Canada is so clean and tidy and organized. And there is so much space and it's not all crowded with people. Wow! It's going to take a while to get used to this again. :-)