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- Phuket Thailand is a excellent vacation destination

with plenty of flights Phuket everyday, beautiful Phuket beaches, great Phuket nightlife, which is real Thailand nightlife set in the emerald Andaman Sea. Phuket weather is mostly sunny, even during monsoon time when the rain really pours down, after a while the sun is shining again, this fact makes the island a genuine all year round vacation destination.

Phuket in southern Thailand offers a diversity of vacation and holiday related themes and availability for rather moderate prices. This pricing spectrum covers a wide range, there are cheap Phuket hotels and luxury Phuket resorts and hotels. The same is for restaurants, villas, Phuket beach bungalows, Phuket nightlife and so on and it wont end there. Several Asia low cost airlines operate flights Phuket for very moderate prices, notable Tiger Airways from Singapore and Air Asia within south east Asia plus several low cost airlines in Thailand such as Nok Air. The National Flag Carrier Thai Airways International sometimes can match prices of the other airlines but Thai Airways usually are bureaucrats who lost the touch to the time, they are only reasonable when you book a international flight to Thailand and add  a flight to Phuket, Chiang Mai, Krabi, Trang, Hat Yai and elsewhere as an extension to the international sector. 

About 100 km to the north of the island is one of the best diving destinations in the world, that’s around the Similan islands close to Khao Lak. Sightseeing and day trip options around Phuket are plenty including the Phang Nga Bay to the east where they made several great movies, among them a James Bond movie (on the now called James Bond Island) and Phi Phi Island further south in Krabi Province where they shot “The Beach” with Leonardo di Caprio on famous Maya Beach. The Phi Phi Islands are easily accessible from Rasada Pier in Phuket Town via several ferries every day at 8am. The island is a genuine   

beach destination where everyone can find just the right beach. Rent a car or a motorbike and just start driving along the west coast starting from Nay Yang Beach is a good winding road from where most of the popular beaches can be accessed such at Kata Beach, Karon Beach, Patong Beach, Kamala Beach, Surin Beach and more to the north. Almost all those beaches have some hotels and resorts somewhere nearby and the road offers breathtaking panoramas over the Andaman Sea. Since there are also restaurants at every beach its easy to do some beach hopping, all this is within about 50km lengths.

Phuket beaches are plenty and different in terns of sand quality and appearance such as long beach, short beach, bay beach and so on. They offer various activities, among the usually beach live also playing with the elephant in the water and almost at every beach Phuket beach massage. If you come in with a boat you probably will use Chalong Bay pier. Chalong Bay is popular with smaller boats / ships.

For many people the island is a great vacation destination with plenty of Phuket beaches. For other a place to make money, lots of Phuket Hotels and Beach Resorts supply thousands of jobs for Thai people of northern Thailand and elsewhere. There are lots of foreigners working in the hospitality business at the Phuket hotels and with liveaboard and scuba diving tours, this are very often people from the so called

Phuket Beaches Mai Khao Beach
Phuket Beaches Mai Khao Beach
Phuket Beaches Bangtao Beach
Phuket Beaches Bangtao Beach
Phuket Beach play with the elephant
Phuket Beach play with the elephant
Phuket Beach Massage
Phuket Beach Massage
Chalong Bay
Chalong Bay

west who found a appropriate job where those skills are needed such as scuba diving instructor etc.. There are also other people working on Phuket Island from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos plus plenty of Chinese and Japanese, most of them do business in Phuket night markets, restaurants, shops, construction and elsewhere. Some simply come for a round of Phuket Golf since there are plenty of Golf Courses and Golf Clubs on the Island.


Phuket Nightlife

- What makes Phuket island such a great travel destination?

The island is first of all an inexpensive very easy going holiday destination with a great Phuket nightlife. Hotels, resorts, apartments, bungalows, cottages and guesthouses can be found in all price categories and ratings and prices are considerably cheaper then what one

would encounter in Europe or America. There is a excellent network of transportation to and from Phuket. At the Phuket bus terminal in Phuket Town, just opposite the "Royal Phuket City Hotel" buses are leaving to all destinations in southern Thailand and Phuket Bangkok. There is a Phuket to Hat Yai bus every hour during daytime, other buses are leaving for Krabi, Trang, Ranong, Satun etc. if someone wants to travel from Phuket to Malaysia by bus or Phuket to Singapore by bus it needs to change the bus at Hat Yai or Padang Besar which is the at the Thai Malaysian border a couple of kilometers to the west

Phuket Golf
Phuket Golf
Phuket Bus
Phuket Bus

before reaching the usually used border crossing at Sadao. Sadao has an unbelievable nightlife even better than Hat Yai. Car rentals and motor bike rentals in Phuket are plenty, the best is Phuket car rent. Phuket flights are many so various domestic and international destinations such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur etc. travel to Myanmar needs to go through Bangkok airport and from there to Yangon. Since they issue visas at arrival at Yangon airport now its an easy and quick trip. A quick trip could work like this, take the Phuket Bangkok bus at around 4pm from the bus terminal, arrival at Bangkok's southern bus terminal is around 4.30am. Hop on the taxi to Suvanabhumi airport (about Baht 250,- plus toll) and take the morning flight to Yangon by Air Asia the flight leaves between 7 and 8am, they change this from time to time. This flight from Bangkok to Yangon is also the cheapest one. If you are a guy you can have a great time with Myanmar  nightlife and Myanmar model girls, its worth it, its different ! 

Phuket bus to Hat Yai
Phuket to Hat Yai Bus

Plenty of other destinations are reachable via flights Phuket every day.

If you like some sightseeing at Phuket book a tour into the island world of the Phang Nga Bay. Chalong is in the middle between Phuket Town and Rawai, Wat Chalong is the most venerated temple and monastery on Phuket Island. The temple and pagoda festivals at Wat Chalong draw thousands of devotees every year. Loy Krathong or the festival of light 

is together with the water festival and the Vegetarian Festival the most important on Phuket Island. Another well known event is the Kings Cup Regatta at Phuket. At  Yacht Heaven Marina the big yachts and sailing ships are coming in for having a good time with Phuket Sailing. Phuket is somehow in between a ancient travel route, not only came the English and Portuguese via Phuket on their quest to the spice islands

Flights Phuket Thailand
Flights Phuket Thailand
Kings Cup Regatta Phuket
Kings Cup Regatta Phuket

of the far east, also today Phuket is at the crossroads for Phuket Travel, means from Phuket to Krabi and Phuket to Penang plus Phuket to Kuala Lumpur and naturally Phuket to Bangkok. To get a better idea of all this it needs some  Phuket History and Phuket Photos and Phuket Videos. Phuket is not a stand alone Thailand travel destination there are plenty of Phuket Beaches, such as Karon, Patong and other. If you like Golf in Phuket you are also at the right destination, here is a Phuket Map to put all this in context. One of the best Thailand National Parks is Khao Sok a two hour drive north east of Phuket. If you are a nightlife lover Phuket Nightlife is for sure one of the best, in global terms. As you can see Phuket is a travel destination for the individual traveler and the family, here are more Phuket Photos.

-Coming to Phuket means,

you enter Phuket vacation county, Phuket beaches, golf Phuket, Phuket nightclub's, Phuket bar's, Phuket restaurant's all in the

Phuket Laguna Bangtao Beach
Phuket Laguna Bangtao Beach

relaxed atmosphere of Phuket Thailand. If you come to Phuket with a car, a Phuket flight via the airport (there are also flights to Phuket by amphibian or water airplanes) or with the bus, you will come into the island via highway 402, heading south. A couple of kilometers before the Phuket airport are several branch roads to luxury beach hotels at Phuket Laguna and one up market

Phuket Laguna
Phuket Laguna

Phuket golf club. At Phuket Laguna are several luxury hotels and villas for rent and sale. Several tin mines have been operating there in the past and after the tin mines got exhausted the decision was made to fill up the mines with water, call it Laguna and develop the area as a Thailand luxury destination. Aside of the lagoons is Bangtao Beach which give a perfect vacation setting. At the circle around the Heroines’ Monument (of the two brave ladies who were leading the defense of Phuket against the invading Burmese army a few hundred years ago) is a right turn to Phuket Laguna beach resorts, Phuket villas and Bangtao Beach.

Phuket Laguna is an attractive assembly of up market Phuket luxury hotels and Phuket villas, about 20 kilometers from Phuket City or Patong Beach, its about 30km to the southern tip of Phuket at Cap Panwa and Rawai. The route to Phuket City (via the bypass road) leads directly to the Phuket shopping mall strip on the west outskirts of the Phuket town centre the city are no Phuket beaches.

Every Phuket beach has a little bit a different characteristic, there are the small beaches such as Laem Sung Beach between Surin and Kamala Beach. There are the around 1 km Phuket beaches such as Karon Beach and Patong Beach and the other beaches north of Nay Yang Beach which are several km long this are notably Mai Khao Beach and Bangtao Beach, this most of the Phuket Luxury Hotels are located there.    

The sun is burning, the Phuket Andaman Sea is reflecting a emerald sparkle, the fishes are happy ( I guess, actually I didn't ask them) , crabs are running on the beach Phuket as usual. The corals off Phuket are ingood conditions, all with great colors and swinging in the stream. Elephant rides are very popular among tourists but unfortunately the 2 leg elephant master try to squeeze out money from the foreigner real badly, better think 3 times before you climb on the back of the poor elephant in Phuket Thailand. They simple charge to much for a elephant ride in Phuket.

Famous Phuket nightlife and excellent Phuket hotels for every size of wallet are just around the corner; Thai girls (and the ones who look like a girl but are not and because of this they are called Phuket ladyboys) are also trying to make you happy wont matter if you are a guy or a girl, Thai people are flexible and Phuket girls are real great. You probably come to the island for a beautiful tropical beach with clean turquoise or emerald waters. Maybe on Phuket or one of the islands around Phuket. Phuket Karon beach, Phuket Patong beach, Phuket Kamala beach and Phuket Kata beach are the top contender. Kata beach on Phuket island is the surf destination.

 

Phuket Laguna Apartments
Phuket Laguna Apartments
Kamala Beach
Kamala Beach Phuket Thailand

Andaman Sea Beach
Andaman Sea Beach Phuket at Mai Khao Beach
Phuket Nightlife Tiger Bar at Patong Beach
Phuket Nightlife

-One of the most important subject at Phuket is naturally accommodation, hotels, beach resorts etc. and there is plenty to choose from.

There are hundreds of hotels, beach resorts, bungalows, cottages, houses and villas plus apartments and Phuket luxury resorts, just anything you can imagine. This is from the small backpacker hotel at Phuket City all the way up to the huge luxury hotels and beach resorts at one of the great beaches at the western shoreline.

A fast growing segment in the Phuket tourism market is Phuket Luxury and Phuket Villas at the beach with private swimming pool. There are several gated villa compounds offering beautiful luxurious villas at the beaches or close to the beach, some of the top notch villas are at Mai Khao beach north of Phuket Airport close to the JW Marriott hotel. This beach at  is located in a Thailand National Park so it is rather strange how someone can build something there, because usually this is strictly forbidden. Anyway this kind of luxurious Phuket villa vacation offers the best in terms of privacy but you need a car since this places are about 50 km off Phuket Town, Patong, Karon and other beach areas. Cheaper houses close to the beach can be rented at Chalong Bay.

Phuket Luxury
Phuket Luxury - Anantara Resort at Mai Khao Beach

Phuket is one of Thailand's most popular tourist destinations for both domestic travelers and foreign tourists with its ideal weather pattern and a excellent accessibility, which makes it attractive for Phuket vacation and tourism-related investment.
At Phuket are real idyllic locations with exclusive resort. Other hotel and resorts are on the islands in the Phang Nga Bay. One of them is Yao Yai Island, a ideal place to play Robinson. Phuket luxury beach villas, at Phuket’s Mai Khao beach have usually two and three-

bedrooms, plus a outdoor living area, private pool, sun deck, terrace and private gardens. Some of the Phuket beach houses and hotels are stylish in a very modern design and have most of the time some traditional Thai architectural elements.

The next similar real estate developments are about 800 km further down at Penang Georgetown, actually Penang has a lot in common with Phuket, first both are islands and second they have a very similar history which was always interconnected in particular during British colonial times. Here is how to go from Phuket to Penang and Phuket to Kuala Lumpur. The best visibility of this interconnection between Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Phuket is the Chinatown in all 3 places. Penang Chinatown has similarities with the area around Dibuk Street at Phuket City. Also Kuala Lumpur Chinatown is very similar in terms of architecture and night markets, they even sell the same goods.

Most of the hotels, resorts, houses and so on are not further off than about 60 minutes road travel to the airport, there is a 4 to 6 lane highway from the northern entry to Phuket at the Sarasin Bridge all the way down to Rawai Beach at the southernmost tip of Phuket.

Chinatown
Chinatown Architecture

People come to Phuket island from a radius of four flight hours for the weekend golf. Many of them have their “golf apartment” at the course; there are many golf courses for every level of experience. Today Phuket vacation are a addiction to sun, pleasure, sexy, scuba, girls and sailing Phuket in the Andaman Sea. At Phuket Thai girls and sex is almost as important as food and water. The local scene, with its very own style has some international influence but the island is pure Thai and has more to offer. A Thai sucks music, dance and Sanook with the breast milk. Already barely stand or walk moving to the exotic music is natural. Thai entertainment, music and Thai girls are ubiquitous. Phuket is the epicenter of amusement and night life in Asia together with Bangkok and Pattaya. The traveler to Thailand go out at night and wants enjoy life. On no other island there are so much non-stop amusement and fun girls.

- Influences also come from outside. Since the 16th century Phuket is a rest and restock point for cargo en route from Europe to Asia,

today there are cruise ships and the jumbos who unload cargo and tourists at the Phuket Airport. In the 500 years or more since the discovery of the island of Phuket in the Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean countless merchant ships and tourists passed on a pleasure travel tour.

Ok now you get hungry and want to try famous Thai seafood, try this at Kang Eng beach restaurant about 200 meter before the Chalong circle when you come from Phuket City.

Phuket vacation
Phuket vacation at a luxury villa compound near Cape Panwa

Below is a huge Phuket lobster, some different crabs and a splendid fish, just taken out from the water basin at the Kan Eng Restaurant at near Chalong Circle. The tasty seafood is served fresh and right at the waterfront at Chalong Bay, the branch road to the Kan Eng seafood restaurant is difficult to find.


Phuket Lobster
Tasty Crab at Chalong Bay
Phuket Crab

Brown Crab
Catch of the Day
Catch of the Day
-Thai seafood restaurants at Phuket

have the usual Thai food plus all kinds of seafood on the menu. Very popular Thai dishes are based on noodles and naturally seafood. Usually Thai restaurants offer the same food either with noodles or with rice. This again has variants, e.g. there are the spaghetti types of noodles and very popular are the so called glass noodles, very fine noodles also used in some seafood salads, called in Thai “jam bunsen”.

Rice comes as boiled rice, fried rice and some other variants. Potatoes are not usual in Thai food servings except when ordering some kind of curry dishes, “masaman” curry dishes always come with potatoes.

Yon Bay near Cap Panwa
Yon Bay near Cap Panwa south end of Phuket

 

Seafood Restaurant
Seafood Restaurant
Thai Food
Thai Food
Phuket Beach Resort
Phuket Beach Resort, Chedi Hotel at Surin Beach
Phuket Restaurant
Phuket Restaurant


The tom yam seafood and other dishes bring your taste buds to life. But not only that, there is also: German food, Austrian gourmet specialties, Italian, French, Spanish, Indian and so on - just name it and everyone is trying to make you happy

The air is still clean in Phuket but the traffic is increasing exponentially and the infrastructure planning in Phuket could be done somehow more sophisticated.

Myriads of chaotic motorcycle (or motocyc -Thaiglish for small motor scooter) are all over Phuket - not giving the others a millimeter of space and leading to unbelievable accidents.

-Phuket Island or travel southern Thailand

Phuket has grown into one of the premier holiday destinations in South East Asia

Phuket motorcycle
Mini family on Honda motorcycle
and is one of the busiest travel destinations of Thailand.
Westcoast panorama from viewpoint over Kata and Karon Beach
West coast panorama from viewpoint over Kata and Karon Beach

- A Phuket Beach is fun, nightlife, Thai food, beach massage and action in the Andaman Sea.


The palm tree lined beaches are of course world famous due to its white - yellow sand and the emerald water of the Andaman Sea. Some of the nicest and most popular beaches found on Phuket Island are the beaches at Patong, Kamala, Karon, Kata and Nai Harn.

Phuket Island NightlifePhuket Nightlife Dance Sing Show
Phuket Island Nightlife                                                                                        Phuket Nightlife Dance Sing Show

Phuket nightlife is another reason why many tourists visit Phuket each year on holiday. Many tourists seem to keep coming back each year for especially the nightlife and bars of Phuket, here is more on Thai nightlife. Most Phuket island nightlife venues can be found at Patong beach along the well known Soi Bangla and elsewhere. A number of clubs are located along Bangla Road in Patong including the very popular Tiger disco and the new Seduction Disco.

Bangla road in Patong Beach Phuket
Bangla road at Patong Beach Phuket
Patong Bangla Road
Patong Bangla Road
Patong Phuket nightlife bar
Patong Phuket nightlife bar
Patong road girls
Patong road girls
Phuket Patong Bar
Phuket Patong Bar
Phuket Patong Game
Phuket Patong Game
Phuket Patong Go-Go Bar
Phuket Patong Go-Go Bar
Phuket Patong Music Bar
Phuket Patong Music Bar
Phuket Patong Nightlife
Phuket Patong Nightlife
Phuket Patong nightlife action
Phuket Patong nightlife action
Phuket Patong Tiger Bar Girls
Phuket Patong Tiger Bar Girls
Phuket Patong Tiger Bar Go Go Girls
Phuket Patong Tiger Bar Go Go Girls
Phuket Thai Bike Taxi
Phuket Thai Bike Taxi

Hundreds of beer bars are around plus plus hundreds of Thai Bar girls and Soi Girls. Each beer bar has a number of beautiful Thai ladies working for them who there to please the clients.


-Phuket in between, answering some questions

In our website you will find hundreds of picture from great Thailand beaches and other Phuket Thailand pictures over a wide spectrum of interests.

- If someone asks for Junk Ceylon Phuket, this was the old name during ancient times. One of the newer shopping malls at Phuket Patong and this shopping mall is Jung Ceylon Patong, people also call it Young Ceylon Patong they changed the first word it wont sound good, more on Phuket history you can find below.

Phuket Town Restaurant Phang Nga Road
Phuket Town Restaurant Phang Nga Road
Pizza Restaurant Phukte Town Phang Nga Road
Pizza Restaurant Phukte Town Phang Nga Road
Thai Sea Food Spaghetti Phuket Town
Thai Sea Food Spaghetti Phuket Town for about US$ 5,- including one coke and a small fruit plate.
 

Dining in restaurants or buying drinks in Phuket is also less expensive than anywhere in any what we call "western world".

- Surgery, surgery in Phuket is available in the Phuket International Hospital and the  Phuket Bangkok Hospital. At Phuket town are some offices, offering skin rejuvenation treatments with botox and other methods.

- Massage in Phuket Patong is offered virtually on every road where a tourist might come. Special massage for men is also available, the two best places for special massage is the Pearl Hotel massage parlor in Phuket Town or Phuket City and Christine Massage in Patong, there are some other massage parlors but the 2 mentioned are the biggest.

- Phuket prices for ladies -short time- at Patong, Bangla Road, are about Baht 1500,- to 2000,- whole night are similar. Beer prices are always between Baht 80,- and Baht 120,- for a small Heineken beer in the bottle.

- Shops for tailor made clothes in Patong beach Phuket are plenty, you will stumble into one every 100 meter at the main tourist area, but be aware they might be cheap, so is the stuff you get in returns. All this tailor made shops are run by guys of Indian origin, some also Nepali and Bangladeshi. If you order something, they give all details to some Thai people who do the actual tailor work elsewhere, many time the communication over this 3  corners wont work and junk is the result, be very careful. I know this because I tried it and junk was what I got, don't let your lure into a buying atmosphere, the guys are very clever to give you a good feeling, but this are not more than sales tricks. There are also plenty of other fashion stores at the shopping malls at Phuket City bypass road.

Skin rejuvenation shop at Phang Nga Road Phuket Town
Skin rejuvenation shop at Phang Nga Road Phuket Town
Girls Fashion Store at Phang Nga Road Phuket Town
Girls Fashion Store at Phang Nga Road Phuket Town


-Phuket Shopping

Going shopping in Phuket is a subject in 3 variants. At the tourist centers on the west coast of Phuket Island are myriads of shops all selling the same stuff. Like cheap fashion cloth, shoes, handbags, plastic ware and tailor made clothing, the subject of bootleg movies and software plus fake designer clothing is somehow under control. Its seen very seldom in Phuket this days -2010-. Some are still selling copy DVD movies and software but only in the backroom somewhere, it didn't disappear completely but almost. Also the shops with all the copy watches became less. Instead there are plenty of shops with nice watches with fantasy names.

Over the last few years however, a number of large shopping malls have opened in Phuket with many international retailers, unique local local shops plus international restaurant outlets such as Burger King, MacDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut etc.. but however it is turned the most exiting shopping is still at the Phuket night markets. Another shopping mall has opened at Patong, Phuket. some time ago called Jung Ceylon, its the biggest shopping mall on Phuket west coast with more than 200 shops, supermarkets and restaurants.

Phuket Shopping
Phuket Shopping
Phuket night markets with Thai silver
Phuket night markets with Thai Silver

In the middle of Joung Ceylon shopping mall at Patong is a open area with water shows, sometimes concerts and a a sailing ship at about original size. It's a nice place to go with the children, there is always some action.

Central Festival shopping Mall and Tesco Lotus Mall along the Phuket by-pass road are other shopping malls around the same area are several other huge shopping malls, they open another one every 3 month, traffic congestion is heavy ang get worst by the day. Mainly because the whole area is not very organized in terms of traffic - infrastructure. Especially the traffic light are switched in a way to make a gridlock certain.

Some up market shopping and dining can be done in the Royal Phuket Marina. Some galleries and apartment buildings are also around. Visitors from all over the

Royal Phuket Marina
Royal Phuket Marina

world come to Phuket and plenty expatriates are around who settled here for business, travel and scuba diving or pursue their lifelong dream of living on a island. Many of the old establishments of the charming colonial times are still visible at Phuket City some of the

Phuket Town villas
Phuket Town villas, Portuguese Sino architecture history remains of a wealthy sea merchant
Antique sitting Buddha Statue Shop Phuket City
Antique Buddha Statue Shop Phuket City
Antique Chinese Horse Coach Bronze
Antique Chinese Horse Coach Bronze
Antique Elephant and Warrior Statue Shop Phuket City
Antique Elephant and Warrior Statue Shop Phuket City

Antique Bronze Art Shop Phuket City

Antique Bronze Horses Shop Phuket City

villas in Phuket with a marvelous Portuguese Chinese style survived until today.

Today Junk Ceylon morphed into Jung Ceylon, that's the name now for the biggest shopping mall and hotel at Patong Beach Phuket.

Ptolemy mentioned that on travel to the Malaysian peninsula, one would have to pass a cape which he called the Junk Ceylon. A location between the latitudes of 6 N and 8 N was indicated for Junk Ceylon which is more or less the position of present day Phuket. It seems that the Junk Ceylon was frequently by ships from Europe, Arab and Indian countries plus Chinese.
The area around offered protection against storms and the possibility opportunity to rest and restock. Phuket become later known as Thalang after the city which still exists in central Phuket Island.

The Mon in southern Myanmar or Burma were also also known as Thalangs. There are plenty of interesting connections between Thailand  and Myanmar or Burma. Another important event in Phuket history was in 1785 when troops from neighboring Burma tried to invade Phuket Island. The former governor’s widow, Chan, and her sister Muk organized the defense, the assault lasted nearly a month. An important part of Phuket history was the "Tin Age" on Phuket Island.

Phuket together with Malaysia became  the leading tin mining producer in the region, actually it was mainly Chinese immigrant labor who did the job. Due to the local mining industry, Phuket become somewhat of a trading hub. The local mining industry lifted Phuket into a trading hub and Chinese merchants made lots of money, this is still visible today in form of marvelous villas in Sino - Portuguese Style in Phuket Town, see picture below.

The Thai King of that period decided that Phuket should be administered by a European, because of the large volume of European merchants and traders who took residence at Phuket Island. Between the period of 1681 and 1685, Thalang was administered by a French missionary named Renee
 

Antique Buddhist Statue in Shop Phuket Town
Antique Buddhist Statue Shop in Phuket City

Antique Thai Women Statue Shop Phuket City

Chinese Antiques Phuket City

Charbonneau. Today this villas, great pieces of Sino - Portuguese Architecture are used for touristy purposes and the area around experience the usual Thai way of encroaching to make quick money.

-In the year 2010 a good question is what Phuket stands for ?

Phuket is a premier beach vacation destination, answer totally yes. A excellent nightlife vacation, answer also full yes and the Phuket restaurants,

Sino Portuguese architecture at Phuket Town
Villas in Sino Portuguese architecture at Phuket Town

beach resorts, scuba diving and a very relaxed atmosphere on Phuket Island. The area around Phuket is similar ,interesting such as Phang Nga and Krabi at west and north, further north is Ranong, a real insider tip. Ranong has relative the lowest population density of all provinces in Thailand, a great Andaman Sea in front and a interesting fishery harbor, actually the biggest harbor in the Thai Andaman Sea.

- Phuket has several top notch marinas and scuba diving areas

more or less at the doorsteps and from Phuket another great diving destination is accessible beyond Ranong in the Myanmar or Burma

Phuket Travel Yacht Haven Marina
Phuket Yacht Haven Marina

Mergui or Myeik Archipelago. About 100 km to the north of Phuket are the Similan Islands a great scuba destination integrated into a Thai Marine National Park. From there again 100 km to the north is the Surin Islands Archipelago with some villages of the Sea Gypsies called Moken in Thailand and Salon in Myanmar or Burma. Another about 100 km to the north east is one the most interesting Thailand National Parks, its Khao Sok National Park includes jungle trekking and a huge reservoir with floating villages and drifting accommodations all in bamboo, great scenery, almost I must on your Phuket travel. Visit the national parks only when there is good Phuket weather and don't go on a caving trip when there is rainy Phuket weather since it happen every year that with heavy rains flash floods are building up somewhere in a cave, when someone is there and the flashflood comes you are gone. Almost every year some tourists perish in this kind of tours.
 

Phuket Weather with rain
Phuket Weather with rain.

- Phuket nightlife is on every day after around 9pm,

the main 3 places where you can experience this to full extend are Patong and Karon beach plus Phuket City. See the photos from Patong Beach, Karon Beach and  pictures from all other beaches below and via the links below. Aside of the great photo and picture you will find several interesting Phuket videos in the video section via the link at the menu. A other great Beach Phuket is Kamala Beach plus Kata Beach, Surin Beach, Bangtao Beach and many more. All Phuket Beaches have fine sand and sometimes granite boulders at both ends, as you can see in the Phuket photo below. Staying on the island can be cheap or expensive, secluded or crowded, loud, vibrant or vulgar it offers something for everyone. Phuket Island has a great atmosphere, there is Phuket Town or City with still a little bit of a colonial flair, there are some small ports or rather marinas and there is the Andaman Sea, a

emerald ocean with archipelagos, coral banks and a abundant underwater life with very big whale sharks and very small creatures.

Think of Phuket and the islands around as a holiday destination, a temporary residence or long-term exile, Phuket is the right place for it. Most people are quite happy with the life at Phuket Island here, relax at the beach, have a drink at the terrace of one of the Phuket beach resorts in front of the Andaman Sea and enjoy great Thai food for relatively low prices, compared to Europe, US and even Singapore or Hong Kong. Everyone can have cheap holiday on Phuket Island, or luxury Phuket holidays or vacations. The Phuket luxury is mainly concentrated around Laguna and Bangtao Beach plus further north at Mai Khao Beach. The lower price life, in particular in terms of house rentals, hotels and beach resort prices is around Karon, Chalong and Rawai Beach.

Phuket Island
Phuket Island
Thai Food
Thai Food

With around $ 10,- per day plus a apartment somewhere on Phuket Island, Phuket Town has plenty of apartments for about $ 150,- / month and up you can have a easy living. This could be a quiet living or active living plus a great nightlife where there are dozens of positive thinking young Thai girls around and you pay less than $ 3.- for a small bottle of beer. You deserve the good

Thai Curry Chicken
Thai Curry Chicken
days when you stand up late, get some Thai food, maybe fried seafood with rice and a coke for about $ 3,- just around the corner in front of the beach. There are other great Phuket restaurants serving Italian food, Chinese food, Indian food and more on the international scale.

New style shopping malls have opened on the island, now everyone has more of less everything virtually just around the corner, no its not the way to heaven but a good and very affordable living.

Have some Thai beach massage or visit a Phuket herbal sauna in the afternoon or maybe a Bikram Yoga studio. Phuket also offers plenty of up market spa facilities with something for your health. Plus the great Thai massage, if you lay down at almost any beach you will be approached by a women offering the original Phuket beach massage. But be careful most of this fat and ugly massage women do it the hard way. If you want the gentle Thai massage approach there are the Thai massage parlors, preferable visited by the guys who get everything what the want. A very popular and huge Patong massage parlor with dozens of real nice ladies is Christine at Patong and in the first floor of the Pearl Hotel in Phuket Town.

Beach Massage
Beach Massage at Mai Khao Beach

development which ended into environment destruction and low budget mass tourism like it was and is in southern Spain.


-Phuket Picture
   
  Buddha and Phuket
The big Buddha Statue
Phuket Tour
Phuket Tour
 
  Phuket Photo
Phuket Photo
Planet Phuket
Planet Phuket
 
 
Attractions
Attractions
Chalong Bay
Chalong Bay
 
  Phuket town
Orchids

Phuket Nightlife
 
 
-Phuket City Night Market  
Night Markets
Night Markets
Market
Market
Thailand Market
Market
Flower Market
Flower Market
 
Phuket Sunrise
Phuket Sunrise
Chalong Bay Catamaran
Chalong Bay Catamaran
Chalong Marina Sail Boats
Chalong Marina Sail Boats
Chalong Bay Speedboat
Chalong Bay Speedboat
Chalong Bay Beach
Chalong Bay Beach
Phuket Yon Bay
Yon Bay close to Cap Panwa
Chedi Hotel Phuket
Chedi Phuket Hotel

Phuket has grown into one of the premier holiday destinations in South East Asia and is one of the busiest travel destinations of Thailand with plenty of flights Phuket every day. It has replaced Bali as the most popular holiday island in the region.

Dining in restaurants or buying drinks in bars or clubs on Phuket is also much less expensive then what most tourists are used to paying back in their home countries.

Phuket Panorama
Phuket Panorama

The red sea bass at the photo, 160 grams and rice goes for about Baht 150,- after negotiations !!.









Phuket Sea Food
Sea Food
two sisters statue at the Tha Ruea Intersection
Two sisters statue at the Tha Ruea Intersection

The monument of the 2 sisters who saved the island from a Burmese invasion.

 

 
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