Phuket Town
This compact provincial town serves mainly as an accommodation and shopping center. Splendid colonial-style residences built by late 19th-century tin
Read morePhuket is Thailand’s largest island with an area of 543 square kilometres and nestles against the Andaman Sea coast 862 kilometres south of Bangkok. Phuket traditionally derives its wealth from tin and rubber. The island is blessed with magnificent coves and bays, powdery palm-fringed white beaches, sparkling island-dotted seas, genuinely hospitable people, comfortable accommodation, super seafood, tropically vegetative mountains, lovely waterfalls and parks, and delightful turn-of-the-century Sino-Portuguese-influenced architecture, which creates an en-chanting ambiance perfectly suited to total relaxation.
This compact provincial town serves mainly as an accommodation and shopping center. Splendid colonial-style residences built by late 19th-century tin
Read moreDrive for 3 kms. from the town along Yaowarat Road and then turn left at the Sam Kong village intersection.
Read moreLocated on Thepkasattri Road about 3 kms. from the town, it offers cultural performances demonstrating the Thai way of life
Read moreThis contains an exciting aquarium with some 1,000 marine, freshwater and estuarine crocodiles and is located just outside of the
Read morestands in the south of the town at the area called Saphan Hin, the end of Phuket Road. It was
Read moreIt is located near Phuket International Airport along Route Nos. 402 and 4026, some 30 kms. from town. The park
Read moreThis temple where the upper half of a large Buddha statue emerges from the ground is 20 kms. north of
Read moreThis historical temple in Amphoe Thalang was once a fort resisting a Burmese invasion around 1785. An old chapel in
Read moreThis extensive forest area in Amphoe Thalang was declared a wildlife sanctuary in July 1969. It covers a rich and
Read moreLocated near the Thalang intersection, this museum displays the way of life, culture and history of Phuket and the South.
Read moreThis is a long stretch of sandy beach north of Hat Surin suitable for swimming and other water sports.
Read moreLocated 26 kms. from the town, turn left at the Heroines Statues past Hat Surin and Laem Sing, Hat Kamala
Read morePhuket’s most developed beach is 15 kms. west of the town. Cabin and bungalow complexes, hotels, bars, nightclubs, discotheques, shops,
Read moreThis beach, nearly southernmost of the island, is about 18 kms. from the town. Beyond the beach is a large
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