Tourist behaviour at Jungle Party Koh Tao
Hello fellow travellers! 2 days ago i went to one of these jungle parties on Koh Tao.
I mainly went there because of the drum and bass floor, and i had a great time.
However, i couldnt bare how many of the people there were acting.
To be clear, i am a full on tourist myself not a local. I'm concerned about the image locals are getting from travellers.
Things i noticed:
While standing in Line for the shuttle to the venue, people did their absolute freaking best to stand in the way of the arriving pickup trucks. There were abt 100 people waiting and one car could take abt 8 people at once. So over the time of 30 minutes i watched this sad sketch in a loop: car arriving, honking, people looking at the car, barely moving anywhere, car honking again, people staring at the car like a drunk owl still not moving. Driver gets out of the car, tells them where to stand. People react harshly like the driver was the one being wrong. Driver is pissed off and now hates everybody else too.
When the car would arrive people would just open doors before the car was even standing still. Again, driver gets mad and the tourists even mock the driver and swear at him to "fck off idiot" and similar expressions.
At the venue, i believe most of the people have never been to an actual rave or maybe they just don't care. To get to the front of the dancefloor, people would just push you out of the way and not even look at you or apologize. For some reason, i observed this behaviour almost exclusively done by girls from lets say 19-23 years old. As a 27 year old male, 2,00m tall, athletic 115kg just standing at the very back to not block anybody or accidentally hit peoples heads with my ellbows, i couldn't really decide what to do. If i tell them their behaviour is wrong, in the end i will just be the bad guy i guess. (Should have told them anyway)
Of course i was a little bit older than most of the people there, but i really can't remember me or my friends acting like this even when we were 19 and completely drunk.
Whats your thoughts on this? I am curious to hear what your experiences were.