Phuket City and Andaman Islands

Phuket Island is the main tourist center in the Andaman region

The commercial center is Hat Yai close to the border to Malaysia. Over a year probably up to 2 million foreigners come to enjoy the freewheeling style at Patong, Phuket Town and the other beach areas, there is plenty to see and to do day and night.


This is a destination for a good time vacation,


Phuket Town Hotels are a good choice if you don’t want to visit the beach every day and rather stay not so close to the tourist crowd. At down town are all the important wet markets, big and small shopping centers are at bypass road just at exit of the town on the road crossing to Patong. There are several big hotels on the upper prices scale and plenty of smaller ones and guesthouses, also low priced apartments are available in the city and the beach areas.


Phuket westcoast panorama with mant hotels and resorts showing Karon and Kata Beach
Phuket westcoast panorama with many hotels and resorts 
showing Karon and Kata Beach

The "Royal Phuket City Hotel", Metropole, Tavorn and Pearl are the biggest ones. The Pearl right in downtown has the biggest massage parlor where you can get all kind of special Thai massages for the guys. There are lots of nightclubs with shows, singing, karaoke and at some of the nightclubs dozens of pretty Thai Girls are sitting around for a nice night out.


Loi Kratong Show in a nightclub
Loi Kratong Show in a nightclub
Phuket Nightlife Cabaret Lady-Boy Travestie Show
Phuket Nightlife Cabaret 
Lady-Boy Travestie Show
Pretty Phuket girls play string instruments
Pretty Phuket girls 
play string instruments














This is also the hub for any transportation outside of the island 


unless you book a trip at your hotel or resort. On the way to the airport is the terminal for long distance buses such as to Bangkok, Hat Yai, Trang, Ranong, Krabi, Surat Thani, Satun, just name it, most buses leave in hour interval and are quite cheap in terms of prices, its mostly somewhere between $ 10,- and 20,-. 


Phuket Bus Station
Phuket Bus Station
Phuket Bus Terminal
Phuket Bus Terminal
The Buses leaving from the terminal are also quite comfortable with service and toilet on board. 

Seats easily mach business class seats from around 20 year ago in an aircraft. The Airport Bus is a real mess better take a minibus at the arrival hall center.

Old Phuket Town Walk


Villas Sino Portuguese Style
Villas Sino Portuguese Style

When you are Phuket town have a walk through the old part around Dibuk street its worth it. The area is very compact and the sightseeing can be done within one or two hours. You will see great old colonial villas in Sino Portuguese Style, Chinese Temples, Art Galleries, pretty restaurants and some beautiful restored houses from the last 3 centuries. There are also some small museums presenting the past, a very interesting one is dedicated to tin mining which was the big business before the tourist avalanche came.

South of the city is Wat Chalong, the most venerated on the island


Wat Chalong Phuket
Wat Chalong Phuket


Wat Chalong Phuket Temple Building
Wat Chalong Temple Building
Chalong Temple Prayer Hall
Chalong Temple Prayer Hall















Sun Rise at Chalong Bay
Sun Rise at Chalong Bay


Chalong Bay Pier at the east coast
Chalong Bay Pier at the east coast


Phangnga Bay Islands east of Phuket
Phangnga Bay Islands


Around the islands, in the Andaman Sea and Phangnga Bay you will find happy fishes (maybe yes, maybe no), running crabs and plenty of corals to please your view. The sun is burning, nightlife is vibrant, the coast and the small islands around are the target for hundreds of tourists every day. If one is out for a day long island tour travel to Rawai Beach at the south west end and rent either a speed boat or a long tail boat for a marvelous day trip.


There are plenty of Phuket girls 



in the nightlife scene and the ones who look like but are not, trying to make you happy and get some money out of it they work in plenty of bars, nightclubs, massage parlors, restaurants and other entertainment shops.

Phuket girls entertainment
Phuket girls entertainment
Phuket nightclub girls
Phuket nightclub girls














Beaches are waiting for you to relax and enjoy your vacations, 



Similan Islands
Similan Islands
Road travel behind Khao Lak
Road travel behind Khao Lak
explore the emerald waters, do some snorkeling or scuba diving or maybe a live aboard trip into the waters in the north around the Similan Archipelago, Khao Lak and Surin Islands. Plenty of other exiting targets are in the deep blue all the way up to Myanmar or Burma, this is behind Ranong.


Boating at Ranong Harbor
Boating at Ranong Harbor


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

Yon Bay near Cap Panwa south east end, the rafts in the center of the picture are the top end of a pearl oyster farm.
Khao Sok National Park
Khao Sok National Park

Vacation at Patong Beach
Vacation at Patong Beach
Phuket in southern Thailand is the right place for beach vacation and trips into the National Park wilderness. Just have a look at our photos and videos after you immediately know what we are talking about. You will hardly find another place on planet earth who offer such a great vacation deal, it has it all, it wont matter if you come on a package or as a single traveler.


Big Buddha
Big Buddha
Vacation in Phuket
Vacation in Phuket
You could also have a look at the "Big Buddha" but in general stay away from tuk-tuk's a encounter with this people almost always has a unpleasant ending. Keep one thing in mind don't make any trip through some private tour guide offerings, they will cheat you and if anything happen no one will care about you. 


Phuket travel agent
Phuket travel agent
Surfing at Kata Beach
Surfing at Kata Beach













The best you can do, either book with a licensed travel agent 


or rent a car or a scooter and do it on your own. Be extremely careful since here most of the people don't care about traffic rules, this leads to horrible accidents. It seems that the island is among the world champions in road accidents, in particular with motorbikes and scooters. There are about 200.000 serious accidents every year and most are with motorbikes.

Interesting body art is created at many tattoo parlors, they are at Karon and Patong Beach plus downtown. 


Phuket Tattoo Parlor
Phuket Tattoo Parlor



Phuket Kings Cup Regatta
Phuket Kings Cup Regatta

The first Phuket Kings Cup Regatta was held in 1987 to celebrate the 60th birthday of His Majesty the King of Thailand. Now it’s Asia’s premier sailing and yachting race event and held every year in the first week of December to commemorate His Majesty’s birthday on the 5th.

The famous Beach Scenery


Patong Beach and the Andaman Sea
Patong Beach and the Andaman Sea

South end of Patong Beach
South end of Patong Beach

Patong at Songkran
Patong at Songkran
Patong Phuket at Songkran
Patong Phuket at Songkran
Patong beach is legend but is only one among around 20 beaches big, small, overcrowded or secluded you can have it exactly as you like. Distances are short and you will hardly have to drive more than an hour from any place to any beach. Other waterfronts are Kamala, Surin, Nai Harn, Kata, Karon Beach and more. Sometimes the weather at the west coast bring strong winds at that time some waterfront are closed.


Karon Beach Waterfront
Karon Beach Waterfront
Karon Beach Andaman Sea
Karon Beach Andaman Sea
Actually there are many people who don't care and see this as just the right challenge to take the surfboard out and have a real surf. Because of the underwater topology the water shows very different behavior at different places.


Patong Beach Tsunami Disaster
Patong Beach Tsunami Disaster
Patong Beach Tsunami
Patong Beach Tsunami
This was also one of the reasons why at some sectors of the west coast most of the structures near the waterfront were destroyed from the Tsunami and at at other almost nothing happen. The best surfing is at Kata just south of Karon, the best waves are there.

Restaurants, street food and food courts


Sea food restaurant
Patong Sea food restaurant
Phuket Lobster Fish and more
Phuket Lobster Fish and more
Tom Yam Seafood and other tasty food makes your stomach happy during your stay, either it is with chili and coconut milk or "nam sei", that's a little bit sour. But not only Thai food is around, it's also German, Austrian gourmet specialties, Italian-, French-,Spanish-, Indian-, Japanese-, Korean and so on, just name it everyone try to make you happy and get (naturally) some money. If you eat something with liquid, like a soup, make sure the restaurant is not using water from the tub, even if they say its boiled, don't eat it because you will have problems in your stomach afterwards.

It is very well known that all water from the tub in southern Thailand is not drinkable. Even the water which comes in the 10 or 20 liter containers is mostly not good for drinking since the people who produce this water simply don't have the technology, such as ROM, UV and more, because its simply to expensive since it must be imported. Only a combination of this 3 technologies guaranties clean water, but ROM (reverse osmosis) is not very known here and on top it's quit expensive. 

City apartments rentals are quite low priced and makes sense if you stay lets say at least one month, costs are from around Baht 5000,- upwards.

Chalong Bay Public Sailing & Yachting Marina

The formalities for your sailing vacations, if you come in from outside Thailand, are handled quickly and a safe place for your boat is guaranteed. Beside the pier are a couple of good restaurants, small hotels, supply shops, travel agents, dive supply outlets and transport facilities. To down town it's only 30 minutes by car. There is also a ship repair facility at the right side of the pier, about 100 - 200 m looking outwards.

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