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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. Phuket island is connected

 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

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
Phuket and Kata plus Karon Beach
Patong Phuket Soi Crocodile
Patong Phuket Soi Crocodile
Phuket Sea
Phuket SeaChalong Bay
Chalong Bay at Phuket Island

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.

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.

Crossing the Sarasin bridge onto Phuket island you will see at left lots of sail boats and yachts on the misty horizon to the east, this the Yacht Haven Marina, a private marina in Phuket and currently the only marina capable to handle super yachts. You know this nice white ships with the helicopter at the back.

After a couple of kilometers before Phuket Airport at the right are some entrance roads to luxury beach hotels at Mai Khao Beach like JW Marriot.
Black Canyon Golf Club Phuket
Blue Canyon Golf Club Phuket

Yacht Haven Marina Phuket Panorama
Yacht Haven Marina Phuket Panorama
Yacht Haven Marina Aerial PictureYacht Haven Marina Phuket Pier and yachts
Yacht Haven Marina Aerial Picture                         Yacht Haven Marina Phuket Pier and yachts

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.

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 centre.

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.

Hard Coral Bank Phuket
Hard Coral Bank Phuket
Soft Corals Phuket
Soft Corals Phuket
Andaman Sea
Andaman Sea

Anyway check if you already got this very special Phuket vibration, because famous nightlife is rapidly materializing.


-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
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 

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

Phuket Nightlife Tiger Bar
Tiger Nightlife Bar
Phuket Nightlife Patong Music
Patong Nightlife Pat

Phuket Nightlife Shark Bar
Nightlife Shark Bar
Phuket Nightlife Lady Boy
Nightlife Lady Boy

Phuket Nightlife Bangla Road
Nightlife Bangla Road
Phuket Nightlife Girls
Nightlife Girls

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.

Phuket Ladyboys
Ladyboy Phuket
-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
Phuket Seafood

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

Thai Tom Yam Seafood
Thai Tom Yam Seafood
Thai food tasty fish
Thai food tasty fish
Thai Sea Food
Thai Sea Food
Thai Street Food at Karon
Thai Street Food at Karon

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.

Mai Khao Beach
Mai Khao Beach

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

Phuket Golf
Phuket Golf

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 and is .

Phuket Traffic
Phuket Traffic
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.

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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