Traveling Guide to Phuket, Thailand
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Phuket is the largest and most popular island in The Land Of Smiles also known as Thailand. Last year (2007) five million people visited this tropical holiday paradise, 670 km south of Bangkok.
What attract everyone is Thai peoples warm smile and hospitality. Everywhere you go their smiles will light up your day. It’s not without reason Thailand is The Land Of Smiles.
Another reason to visit Phuket is for the beaches and warm water where the tropical sun give you a tan all year round.
Flying down to Phuket from Bangkok take just over one hour and shortly before landing will you see many small green limestone islands rising up from the sea underneath you, a beautiful sight so different from Bangkok’s concrete jungle.
What you are seeing is Phang-Nga Bay where you later will go on a boat tour between more than one hundred spectacular limestone rock formations. P
- Largest island in Thailand 540 km²
- Population: 270,438
- Capital: Phuket City
- Tourist capital: Patong Town
- Currency: 100 Satang = 1 Baht
- Evergreen tropical climate
- Day temperature 28-38C/82-100F
- Night temperature 20-28C/68-82F
- Tourist season November-April with peak at New Year
- 24 beaches with soft white sand on the west coast
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