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Name:
Phuket
Description:
The Phuket Island is located in the tropical zone off the west coast of Southern Thailand. It is the largest island of Thailand being a favorite destination for vacation.
The island is formed by an endless chain of magnificent bays with beaches and palm trees, where the view reaches the small islands scattered at sea.
It has an abundance of diving destinations, all offering a fantastic underwater world of tropical fishes and coral formations, so exotic and colourful. From Phuket, all sorts of diving tours are organized lasting from half a day to two weeks. The nearest are sites off the west coast where you can explore soft and hard coral reefs, with a large variety of tropical marine life.
You can see leopard sharks, stingrays, white-tip sharks and morays.
Visibility often exceeding 30 meters, extending sometimes up to 45 meters.
Climate:
Phuket has a tropical climate that is warm the whole year round averaging temperatures of around 29ºC.
How to get there:
From Bangkok to Phuket you have several available means of transport: Plane, with several daily flights with a duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes, by bus or car with a duration of 12 hours. But the mean of transport more comfortable and faster is undoubtedly the plane, with several direct flights between Phuket and European cities.
Phuket offers a large number of interesting activities: ride elephants, bungee jumping and all water sports imaginable. The culture of the island remains intact and to make an idea you just need to visit the center where style homes Sino-Portuguese museums-houses. Were the immigrants residents who made Phuket famous by tin mines and rubber plantations during the nineteenth century.
You must also visit the Thai Village, the Temple Bang View, the Templi Tui Chui, the Rang Hill, Wat Mongkol Nimit, Wat Phra Tong (half buried Buddha) and the Cape Promthep.
