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- Phuket is located about
900 kilometers south of
Bangkok.
There are several
different count on
kilometers since it is
possible to travel to Phuket
in different ways. First are
Phuket Flights and second is
to travel from Bangkok to
Phuket via Chumphon and
Ranong, The other
possibility is to travel
from Bangkok to Phuket and
vice versa via Surat Thani
and Phang Nga.
Phuket is Thailand's
largest island and often
defined as the pearl of the
Andaman Sea. . Its natural
resources in the past have
been tin and trade between
Europe and Asia. Today
Phuket means beaches,
limestone and granite cliffs
some tropical forests and
plenty of rubber
plantations. Actually the
tourists bring most of the
money to Phuket Island.
That’s the reason why
Phuket Island has been
discovered by the rest of
Thailand as a part of the
country where people still
can find work and make
money. The result is a
avalanche of Thai people
from the north of Thailand
which virtually put a layer
of concrete and bricks over
this once beautiful Thailand
Island.
Located in a tropical
zone just north of the
equator on the west coast of
the southern Thailand in the
Andaman Sea, Phuket province
covers an area of
approximately 543 square
kilometers. The islands
length from north to south
is about 50 kilometers and
approximately 22 kilometers
wide. Phuket has Phang-Nga
Province to the north and
east plus Krabi to
southeast; this includes the
seaside and Phi Phi Islands
between Phuket and Krabi
Province. To the west and
north west is the Andaman
Sea the place where plenty
of great diving sites are
located such as the Similan Islands, the Surin
Archipelago and behind Ranong the islands of Myanmar or Burma.
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to Phang-Nga Province
by the Sarasin
Bridge.
There are two seasons on Phuket
Island, the rainy season (May to October) and the dry season
(November to April), actually this are floating parameters since it
is easy to experience rain in lets say December and some dry days in
September. Pulled together Phuket island is a all year round holiday
destination since even if there is some rain its usually only some
hours and after
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the sun come in and
the blue sky is
visible. If someone
wants to be sure
that there is
absolutely no rain,
this happens only
between about
February and April
but is rather boring
since some rain
showers are the
spices of the day. Average temperatures ranges between 23 C and 35 C. Phuket
Island is divided into 3 administrative counties namely Amphoe Muang
which is more or less central and southern Phuket, Amphoe Thalang
which is the northern half of the island and Amphoe Kathu which is
finally Patong the main tourist and beach spot on Phuket.
-Phuket is one of
the top travel
destinations of
the world.
Phuket is easily accessible by
flights, road or sea. A great Phuket beach is almost always
close by and can be accessed without any problems. The main Phuket
attractions are Phuket hotels,
beach Phuket,
Phuket nightlife and the
Andaman Sea Thailand with
Phang Nga Bay, Similan Islands
southern Thailand and other Phuket sea around.
Myriads of
Phuket hotels,
beach resorts,
bungalows, apartments, Phuket housing estates etc.
makes it easy to find the right accommodation on Phuket Island. A new trend is Phuket
luxury especially at
Mai Khao Beach and Bangtao Beach
which is Phuket Laguna. Plenty of luxury hotels and luxury Phuket Villa development offer
great
Phuket
travel
or Phuket holiday experience on the up market level. But there
are enough cheap Phuket hotels everywhere on the island, in particular at
Phuket City and Chalong.
New Phuket
luxury hotels,
Phuket homes rentals, and Phuket villa developments
offer the |

Phuket and Kata
plus Karon Beach

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Phuket Sea
Chalong Bay at
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utmost privacy since usually there is also a wall around this
type of Phuket villas and a private swimming pool in the garden,
service is only a phone call away. Phuket
up market beach
resorts offer
luxurious
retreats away
from the crowd, stay in
any of the
luxury resorts and your vacation
will bring you a unforgettable
experience. Some Phuket island luxury and beach resorts provide
vacation
packages with
added extras
such as
complimentary
Phuket airport
transfers,
free buffet
breakfast,
Phuket spa
treatments and
romantic
candlelit
dinners in a
Phuket beach site setting, just the right ambience for honeymooner. Note that there are only a handful of
Phuket hotels and beach resorts where you can walk from the
hotel right to the beach and into the water without a road in
between.
Coming to
Phuket
also means,
you enter fun
county,
beach
Phuket,
golf Phuket,
Phuket nightlife,
Phuket bar's,
Phuket restaurant's, all
in the relaxed
atmosphere of
a
southern Thailand living with southern comfort and pace, no need
for heating, ok needs air-condition to cool but I would say better
to cool instead of heating.
If you come
by
car via
Bangkok Phuket
or
Phuket
to Krabi
or
from
Phuket airport, with
the bus or whatever , you
will come into
the island via
highway 402 and over the Sarasin Bridge,
heading south.
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Phuket
resort
and
Phuket
hotels
are what
a
tourist
is
looking
for. At
Phuket
there
are
plenty
of
Phuket
beaches.
Phuket
travel
is
shifting
to
Phuket
luxury
with
Phuket
spa and
excellent
service.
Patong
Phuket
is still
the
prime
Phuket
vacation
destination.
Fights
to
Phuket
via
Phuket
airport are
cheap
and
resort
in
Phuket
plenty.
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Further south is golf Phuket, the blue canyon golf & country club, they also offer apartments for sale and to rent. The road to Phuket Airport is to the right at the next intersection with traffic lights. |
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Driving towards south leads to the circle
around the
Heroines’
Monument (of the
two brave ladies
who were leading
the defense of
Phuket against
the invading
Burmese army a
couple of
hundred years
ago) a right
turn leads to Laguna. Phuket
Laguna is an
attractive
assembly of
upper market
hotels and
villas, about 20
kilometers away
from Phuket City
and Patong
Beach, its about
30km to the
southern tip of
Phuket at Cap
Panwa. The route
to Phuket City
(via the bypass
road) leads
directly to the
Phuket shopping malls
strip on the
west outskirts
of the town
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The soft and hard coral banks off
Phuket in the Andaman Sea are still in
good conditions,
all with great
colors. The
Phuket elephant’s are
marching, you can hire one to have a ride, but it became very expensive in the last 2 years- if you like to have a Phuket elephant ride you must negotiate very hard, this guys really try to pull your leg off.
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Hard Coral Bank Phuket |

Soft Corals Phuket |

Andaman Sea |
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Anyway check if you already got this very special Phuket vibration, because famous nightlife is rapidly materializing. |
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-Phuket hotels
are
plenty
and a famous
nightlife
is
waiting.
Hotels
and
accommodation
are
available for every
size of wallet
are available at
Phuket
Island;
there
are
Phuket
luxury
hotel,
Phuket
beach
hotels,
Phuket
Bungalows,
cottages
and
Phuket
apartments.
The
cheapest
Phuket
hotels
and
apartments
are in
Phuket
City..
The
Phuket
nightlife
is
another
reason
why many
tourists
visit
Phuket
each
year on holiday. |

Phuket island nightlife venues can be found in Patong |
Many tourists seem to keep coming back each year especially attracted by the vibrant nightlife and
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bars of Phuket island. Most Phuket island nightlife venues can be found in Patong beach along the well known Bangla Road.
A number of large clubs are located along
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Tiger
Nightlife
Bar

Patong Nightlife
Pat |

Nightlife
Shark Bar

Nightlife
Lady Boy |

Nightlife
Bangla
Road

Nightlife
Girls |
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Bangla
Road at
Patong
Beach including
the very
popular
tiger
disco, Soi Crocodile with theLadyboy stage, Soi Eric, Soi Seadragon and more Soi plus bars and discos.
Along Patong
Bangla
road are
plenty
of small
streets
leading
to
hundreds
of beer
bars.
Each
beer bar
has a
number
of
beautiful
Thai
ladies
working there
who are
there to
please
the
clients. Thai girls (and
the ones who
look like a girl
but are not called ladyboys) are
also trying to
make you happy by pulling you money.
Be especially vigilant when ladyboys are around, wallets disappear with lightning speed. |

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-Phuket
restaurants
offer
seafood and
other
tasty
Thai
special
dishes.
Not
only
Thai
food is
available, there
are also
German,
Japanese,
Austrian,
Italian,
French,
Spanish,
Indian,
Chinese,
Korean,
Russian
and Arab
restaurants
etc.,
its a
real
international
cuisine
assembly.
Restaurants
offering
foreign
food
are
concentrated
around
the
beach
area of
Patong
and
Karon
plus in
the new
shopping
malls
along
the
bypass
road
just
outside
Phuket
City.
Many of
the
Phuket restaurants
are open
air
restaurants.
Also Indian food is very popular, but there is a very low level of knowledge how to make Indian food, it looks like many people try to make quick money on subjects they don't understand. |

Phuket Seafood |
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Naturally also the fast food industry sell their food all over Phuket Island, sometimes its not only junk food.
Many restaurants dedicated to noodle food either Thai style noodles, almost everywhere. Japanese noodle dishes in some of the shopping malls and Chinese noodles of different styles in Phuket City and elsewhere.
Some very new style Thai food is offered in restaurants like Black Canyon Coffee Shop, this is a franchise chain in Thailand and usually located in the shopping malls, such as Tesco-Lotus They have very good Thai style food made from new recipes but with typical Thai style. The little problem in this Phuket restaurants is, the dishes are very small, this might fit Thai people but for sure not foreigners.
At the shopping malls are also
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Thai Tom Yam Seafood

Thai food tasty fish |

Thai Sea Food

Thai Street Food at Karon |
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self service
food in court
yard style at
the uppermost
floor.
-Most people
come to Phuket
to enjoy Phuket
beach life and
nightlife.
are mushrooming,
prime locations
are already sold
out and now
villa projects
on the islands
on the south of
Phuket and huge
hotels and villa
projects in the
north of Phuket
Island are under
way.
Around Mai
Khao Beach
just adjacent to
the JW Marriot
hotel is a huge
construction
project creating
villas and
apartments.
Somehow
this
construction
frenzy is
strange since
Phuket is
already quite
saturated with
hotels and beach
resorts. Several beach resort
constructions
are under way on
islands in the
Phang Nga Bay
area just off
the eastern
coast of Phuket
Island. All this
Phuket Island
resorts on this
small private
islands cater
the up market
tourists, at
least in terms
of pricing.
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Mai
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Many traveler come to
Phuket island
from a
radius
of up to
five
flight
hours
for a
Phuket
golf
weekend.
Golf
Phuket
is mostly
with Japanese
and
Chinese
people.
Many of them
have their “Phuket golf
apartment” at
the golf course;
there are many
golf courses for
every level of
experience.
The
latest tourist influx
to
Phuket comes from
Russia and parts
of the former
USSR who are now
independent like
Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan etc..
In
particular
people
from
Russia
have
replaced
western
European
tourists
almost
completely
in
certain
parts of
Phuket. Where
one
heard
German
language
before,
its
Russian
language
now.
Phuket
traffic
is
increasing
exponentially
since
there is
a shift
going on
among
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Thai
people from
the north to the
south of
Thailand and
particular
Phuket. In the
north of
Thailand plenty
of people don't
have a job and
in the southern
tourist regions
lots of jobs are
available,
infrastructure
planning in
Phuket
is also
not very
sophisticated,
it only
goes
with the
idea,
get
quick
money.
Myriads of
chaotic small motor
scooter are all
over
Phuket Island
this
motor
biker
have
absolute
no
driving
education
and
don't
care
about
anything
leading to
unbelievable
accidents.
Around 200.000
bad accidents
are the result
almost every
year on Phuket
Island
and 80%
are done
by motor
bike
driver.
Phuket has grown
into a
premier holiday
destination in
South East Asia
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one of
the top
travel
destinations
of
Thailand.
It
probably
has
replaced
Bali as
the most
popular
holiday
island
in the
region,
in
particular
after
the Bali
bombings
but this
quickly
changed
after
thousands
of
tourists
was
taken
hostage
by some
rioters
who
occupied
and
blocked
the
Airport
Bangkok,
most of
the
travel
to
Phuket
goes via
Bangkok
Phuket.
-What are
Phuket islands
attractions?
Probably the
main attraction
at Phuket Island
are the Phuket beaches,
Phuket nightlife,
Phuket entertainment
and many people
like massage
Thai.
good food on
a international
level for very
moderate prices.
Phuket can be a
inexpensive
vacation
destination or a
expensive one
its up to you.
Phuket hotels,
beach resorts
and guesthouses
can be found in
all price price
ranges. For sure
much cheaper as
compared Europe
or other popular
vacation
destinations.
Dining and
drinks in
restaurants,
bars, clubs etc.
in Phuket is
much less
expensive then
in countries the
tourists from
plus places like
Singapore or
Hong Kong who
are even more
expensive than
many
destinations in
Europe US and
elsewhere.
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Shopping in
Phuket got a big
push upward
since the
Shopping Malls
opened along the
Phuket City bypass road.
There are
several huge
Phuket shopping malls
now in operation
and new are
popping up year
by year.
Going shopping
in Phuket in the
past was not
very
interesting
since most
of the shops
in Phuket offer the same
stuff,
tailor made
clothing and all this other
textiles like t
shirts etc. plus
handbags
and dozens of
other cheap
goods. The
latest opening
is at Phuket Patong,
its the Phuket Jungceylon
mall in Patong,
actually there
are not so many
cheap items, its
rather oriented
to the up market
level.
-Some Phuket
History
Early records of
Phuket history
are from the
beginning of the
11th century. The first
inhabitants of
what is now
known as Phuket
or Junk Ceylon
as it was known
during
Portuguese and
English colonial
times were the
sea gypsy’s,
also known as
Moken in
Thailand and Salon in
Myanmar or Burma.
Sea gypsies
seems to be a
branch of the
Negritos or
Malay the
indigenous
inhabitants of
South East Asia.
An
earlier mention
of Junk Ceylon
was in a book
written in the
year of 157 AD.
The book was
written by the
Greek Claudius Ptolemy.
The Greek
philosopher
mentioned that
if one was to
travel to the
Malay
archipelagos,
it needs to pass
a island called
Junk Ceylon. For
Junk Ceylon a
location between
the latitudes of
6 N and 8 N was
indicated which
is present
day Phuket. It
seems that the
Junk Ceylon was
popular by sea
merchant since
the naturally
protected bays
offered
protection
against the
forces of
nature. That
means on the
east side of
Phuket island,
as it was
evident during
the Tsunami,
when all damages
were done
on the west
coast of Phuket
island.
During British
colonial times
Phuket was also
known as Thalang,
Thalang still
exists in the
northern mid region
of Phuket. The Mon
of southern
Myanmar, mostly
around the Gulf
of Martaban were also
also known as Thalangs, there
are plenty of
connections
between Thailand
and Myanmar or
Burma. In the 15th
century Phuket
became a leading tin
mining ground
and lots of
Chinese people
came in to work
in the mines,
got rich, built
fabulous Villas
and houses in
Sino-Portuguese
style, some of
the most
beautiful
created villas
are still
visible at
Phuket Town or
Phuket City.
In
1785 troops from
neighboring
Burma tried
to invade Phuket.
Finally two
Phuket women,
the former
governor’s
widow, Chan, and
her sister Muk
organized to defend
Phuket Island,
the struggle
with the Burmese
lasted nearly a
month.
When the supply
of the Burmese
troops were gone
they had to withdraw.
After the Kinging of
Thailand bestowed upon
them the noble
titles of Thao
Thep Krasattri
and Thao Si
Sunthon. The two
sisters have
their monument
right in the
middle of the
round about at
the Tha Ruea
Intersection.
-Phuket is
becoming more
and more the
sailing and yachting hub of
south east Asia.
Its all
time more or
less summer with
25° and 32°C
throughout the
year. With a
excellent sailing
infrastructure
Phuket is the
ideal cruising base.
With great
panoramas in the
limestone world
of Phang Nga Bay
top diving
grounds around
Phuket and Phi
Phi Islands plus
the Similan
and Surin
archipelago,
Phuket has
something for
everyone. Myanmar’s
or Burma's
unexplored
Mergui
Archipelago is
easily
accessible to
the north, you
must call at
Ranong and
Kawthaung to
enter.
The Krabi and
the Trang
archipelago are
to the south and
further south
are the Tarutao
Islands in the
Marine National
Park just about
5
km from the
Malaysian island
of Langkawi.
Phuket has
three
international standard
marinas, Yacht Haven
Marina, Boat
Lagoon Marina,
Royal Phuket
Marina, some more
marinas are
planned or under
construction.
Sailing holiday
in Thailand
climax in Phuket
King’s Cup
Regatta, attracts
around 100
yachts and boats and is
held in early
December.
Phang-Nga Bay
Regatta,
is at
Chinese New
Year, its the
regatta with the
most scenic
background of
any regatta in
the world.
Phuket Race Week
starts in the
windy month of
July during the
southwest
monsoon.
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