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-Coming to Phuket means,

you enter Phuket fun county, Phuket beaches, golf Phuket, Phuket nightclub's, Phuket bar's, Phuket restaurant's all in the relaxed atmosphere of Phuket Thailand.

If you come to Phuket with a car, a Phuket flight via the airport 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 and one up market Phuket golf club.

At the Phuket 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 upper market Phuket 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 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 in good 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 Phuket 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.

If you like something special at Phuket book a tour into the island world of the Phang Nga Bay.

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Phuket is a travel destination for the individual traveler and the family.

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

Phuket island has hundreds of hotels, beach resorts, bungalows, cottages, houses and villas plus apartments and Phuket luxury resorts, just anything you can imagine. This goes from the small backpacker hotel at Phuket City all the way to the huge luxury hotels and beach resorts at one of Phuket 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 Phuket beach 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 Phuket Island is located in a Thailand National Park so it is rather strange who 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, Phuket Patong, Phuket Karon and similar places.

Phuket Luxury
Phuket Luxury - Anantara Resort & Spa - Your Villa with Pool and Yacuzzi

But there are similar places on Phuket Island such as this one at Chalong Bay, they have cheaper houses for rent, but also close to the 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 and on the islands in the Phang Nga Bay. One of them is Yao Yai Island, a ideal place to play Robinson. This attracts hotel guests and house owners. 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 Phuket hotels are styled 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 is almost the same as 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.
The gated villa communities on Phuket - with villas from 10 million baht upwards – are mushrooming.

Phuket Chinatown
Phuket 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.

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Today Phuket vacation are a addiction to sun, pleasure, sex, 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.

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.

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..

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

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.  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 great 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

Phuket Crab

Phuket Crab Brown

Phuket 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.

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

The tom yam seafood and other tasty 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

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

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

Phuket motorcycle
Phuket mini family on Honda motorcycle
Phuket westcoast panorama from viewpoint over Kata and Karon Beach
Phuket west coast panorama from viewpoint over Kata and Karon Beach

East Asia and is one of the busiest travel destinations of Thailand . It has replaced Bali as the most popular holiday island in the region.

What makes Phuket island such a great travel destination?


Phuket is first of all an inexpensive holiday destination. Phuket hotels, resorts 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.

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

-Phuket Thailand is mainly a beach, fun, nightlife, good Thai food and golf destination.

The great beaches are plenty, fun and Phuket Nightlife you can find here.

 

Phuket Beaches    Phuket Nightlife

The palm tree lined beaches of Phuket Island 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

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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 nightlife Thailand

Most Phuket island nightlife venues can be found in Patong beach along the well known Soi Bangla. A number of large clubs are located along Bangla road in Patong Beach Phuket 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 Soi Bangla or Bangla Road with again 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, naturally also on Phuket Thailand. Phuket Thailand pictures over a wide spectrum of interests.

Just to answer some questions, if someone asks for junk Ceylon Phuket, this was the old name during ancient times. Now they opened a shopping mall at Phuket Patong and this shopping mall is Jungceylon 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 bars or clubs on Phuket is also less expensive than anywhere in any what we call "western world".

Surgery, maybe cheap 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, relatively cheap.

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.

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.

There are also plenty of other fashion stores, mainly for girls.

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 with 3 variants. At the tourist centers on the west coast of Phuket Island there 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 -end of 2008-. 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 haveopened 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 tec.

A new shopping mall has opened at Patong, Phuket. Named Young Ceylon, its the biggest shopping mall on Phuket west coast with more than 100 shops, supermarkets and restaurants.

In the middle of Young Ceylon shopping mall at Patong is a open area with water show, sometimes concerts and Chinese Junk 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.

Royal Phuket Marina
Royal Phuket Marina

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Visitors from all over the world to Phuket and a certain layer of expatriates who settled here for business, travel and scuba diving plus as a sort Bohéme try to pursue their lifelong dream.

Many of the old establishments of the charming colonial times are still visible at Phuket City some of the villas in Phuket with a marvelous Portuguese Chinese style survived until today.

Phuket Town
Phuket Town, 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

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 Junk Ceylon 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 become  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 during that period decided that Phuket

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

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 Charbonneau.

Today this villas are used for touristy purposes
and the area around experience the usual Thai way of encroaching to make quick money.



Sino Portuguese architecture at Phuket Town
Sino Portuguese architecture at Phuket Town
 
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two sisters statue at the Tha Ruea Intersection
two sisters statue at the Tha Ruea Intersection

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

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