This picture taken on December 15, 2016 shows the very last of the partygoers left on Haad Rin beach the morning after a Full Moon Party on the southern island of Ko Phangan. For many ravers on the tropical oasis of Koh Phangan, the origins of the Thai island's debaucherous Full Moon parties are as hazy as their memories of the beach bash the next morning. - AFP PHOTO
Yet Sutti Kursakul, a middle-aged island native with a distinctive black moustache, claims he not only remembers the first moonlit party but organised it.
”I held the first full moon party in around 1988. It was a farewell to my Australian friend,” Sutti told AFP as neon-clad tourists flowed in and out of his bar, vibing to house music.
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