Phuket, Thailand's Pearl
From Buddhist Temples to Location for The Killing Fields
Nestling in the Andaman Sea, Phuket is Thailand's favourite island, offering jungle trekking, elephant safaris, beautiful beaches, nightlife and locations for films.
Phuket, Nai Yang Beach, Phang Nga Bay and Buddhist temples.
Phuket, a green velvety land encircled by a necklace of blindingly white beaches lapped by pistacio green waters is increasingly popular, yet you can still lunch at rickety restaurants on beaches like beautiful Nai Yang backed by a wooded national parkor at Phang Nga Bay with its countless islands and dramatic cliffs that attract rock-climbers. Phuket’s landscape is exotic - red and gold Buddhist temples, vivid green rice-fields, and jungly rubber plantations where each tree wears a cup like a white bumbag to catch the dripping latex
Siam Safari and Elephant Conservation
If you like nature, the Elephant Conservation Project of Siam Safari will take you trekking in a superb natural setting in the hills above Phuket Town with panoramic views over Phuket Island. Meet young elephants and their mahouts, watch them being trained and go jungle trekking,happy in the knowledge that conservation is the main priority of Siam Safari.
Leonard di Caprio and The Beach
If it’s excitement you crave, then head for the surreal archipelago of Phang Nga. Lie flat on your back in a canoe as you negotiate a narrow tunnel through a limestone outcrop into a massive, cathedral-like canyon called a Hong. Leonar di Caprio filmed The Beach in this are.
James Bond and The Man with the Golden Gun
James Bond fans will love the boat trip to Phang Nga, where huge, jagged, limestone karsts veined with gold and grey rock, surge out of the sea in Asia’s most spectacular seascape. The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed here, and James Bond Island is and a pilgrimage for Sean Connery fans
Patong - girlie bars, naughty nightlife and transvestites.
Dusk till dawn entertainment can be found in Patong where you can sample everything from naughty nightlife to fantastic shopping and transvestite shows at the hundreds of bars and clubs that line the strip.
Phuket's Top Hotels.
The rich and famous head for The Amanpuri at Pansea but Thai culture blends effortlessly with luxury at Laguna Phuket, a complex of top hotels - The Banyon Tree, The Sheraton Grande, Allamanda Beach Club,and the low-rise Dusit Laguna Resort – at Bang Tao Beach, linked by and tree-lined avenues created from the detritus of the tin-mining on which Phuketbuilt its wealth.
Just a couple of decades ago there were only a few thatched shacks on most of Phuket’s beaches. The thatched shacks have gone but nature's charms remain. Forget the promotional material - the real thing is even better.
