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Night Life in Patong

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:01:43 +0000

We truly recommend you to start your evening with variety style dinner such as beautiful restaurant on the beach, restaurant in luxury hotel, Italian restaurant, etc. Best of all, romantic restaurants are waiting you for every sweet couple to appreciate Patong night scenery on the cliff. After dinning, you can enjoy shopping at walking street. However, at Jungceylon shopping center, there is the musical fountain with an amazing light and sound show every evening along with movies projected onto a water screen everyday for free in 3 times a day. You must finish your night life at Bangla road which has various entertainments for instance bar, discotheque, etc. This will be the last activity for night life at Patong. Have fun and enjoy!

Patong Life

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:59:30 +0000

Patong Beach is a beach on Phuket’s west coast, and to the town adjoining it. There are many places to serve all tourists in Patong. Most of tourists like to enjoy sunbathe on the beach because Patong Beach is one of top ten the beautiful beach in the world. Water sports such as Jet Ski, Paramotor sport are very popular activity to do in Patong Beach. However, if you don’t like sunny day on the beach, you can enjoy shopping at Jungceylon which is the biggest shopping center in Patong. Many international products, souvenirs, Thai hand craft (That’s Siam zone), and international restaurants are waiting you at Jungceylon shopping center. Moreover, if you want to relax your body from stress, there are many luxury spas in Patong to provide you.

About Phuket

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:51:20 +0000

Phuket (Thai: ภูเก็ต, IPA: [pʰuːkɛt]; formerly known as Tha-Laang or Talang, or Junk Ceylon in Western sources, a distortion of the Malay Tanjung Salang, i.e. “Cape Salang”)[1] is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Phang Nga and Krabi, but as Phuket is an island there are no land boundaries.

Phuket is Thailand’s largest island, approximately the size of Singapore. The island is connected to mainland Thailand by a bridge. It is situated off the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. The region has an area of approximately 570sqm and it’s made up of 1 large and 39 small islands. Phuket formerly derived its wealth from tin and rubber.[citation needed] The island was on one of the major trading routes between India and China, and was frequently mentioned in foreign trader’s ship logs. The region now derives much of its income from tourism.

Patong Beach

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:44:15 +0000

Patong Beach (Thai หาดป่าตอง) is a beach on Phuket’s west coast, and to the town adjoining it. It is the main tourist resort in Phuket. It also contains an important centre of Phuket’s nightlife and is the centre of cheap shopping on the island. The beach became popular with western tourists, especially Europeans, in the late 1980s. Numerous large hotels and chain hotels are located in Patong.

Patong Beach is more famous for its nightlife than the 2-kilometer beach that runs the entire length of Patong Town’s western side. Nightlife is centered on two main areas Bangla Road and Paradise Complex, with Bangla Road being predominantly straight and Paradise Complex being predominantly gay. Both roads are lined with many themed bars, discotheques, and go go clubs. Prostitution is culturally acceptable, especially on Bangla road where you will find many older Western men drinking and flirting with much younger Thai women and transvestites.

On December 26, 2004, Patong Beach along with many other areas along the western coast of Phuket and Thailand were struck by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The wave caused a great deal of destruction to the waterfront of the beach and immediately inland, and many people were killed there. Patong was one of the worst affected areas of Phuket, although the destruction was not nearly as bad as nearby in Khao Lak.