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Accessibility:
By road, 862 km. from Bangkok by Highway No. 4 (Bkk to Ban Khok Kloi, Phang-
nga Province), then by Highway No. 402 (Ban Khok Kloi to Phuket town), about 13
hrs. drive. Daily coach service between Bkk and Phuket available from Bangkok
Southern Bus Terminal. By air, 1.10 hrs., several flights daily. No rail service. (see
Usefull Calls Bangkok , for
telephone numbers)
Eating out
Visitors to Phuket should not miss the opportunity to have a taste of Phuket's many
kinds of famous seafood which are always fresh and palatable. Prices are also very
reasonable. Various seafood dishes are available in town and along famous beaches
such as Patong, Kata, Karon, Rawai and Chalong Bay. But if you want to try the
local food, mi sapam, misua (kinds of Chinese noodles), khanom
chin ( Thai rice noodles with curry soup and vegetables), ho mok
(steamed curried fish), kaeng luang and namprik gung siap
are recommendable.
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Transportation: Airport to Town and
Beaches
By mini-bus to Phuket town, 70 baht per person; to Kata, Karon, Patong, 100 baht
per person. By Taxi, to town, Kata, Karon,Patong, 400 baht. By limousine to town,
Surin, 400 baht; to Kata, Karon, Patong, 600 baht.
In Town
No public buses, but there are mini-buses which operate a communal service. Just
tell your destination to the driver, In the town area the fare is 10 baht.
Town to Beaches
There are mini-bus services between the town and all the tourist beaches. Buses
leave for the beaches at the market on Ranong Road at the half-hour intervals untill
6:00pm. After that, you must hire a taxi. Bus fare: about 10-30 baht.
Private cars,
jeeps and motorbikes can be hired from a car-rent company for your convenience.
Aquatic Sports
Phuket is also a centre of all kinds of aquatic sports with ideal environment, modern
equipment and professional guidance for diving, windsurfing, sea-canoeing, big
game fishing, etc.
go to Sports Facilities in
Phuket
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A Miraculous Story of Pra Thong
For people in Thalang, Phuket, Wat Pra Thong is the most important Buddhist
monastery, enshrining a most revered Buddha image called "Pra Thong", meaning
the Gold Buddha.
A miraculous stoy has it that once a young boy tethered his water buffalo to a post
protruding from the ground. Then both the boy and the animal were stricken by a
mysterious sickness. Discovering later that the post was the decorative topnot of a
buried gold Buddha image, villagers tried to excavate the whole image for
enshrinement, but only the upper part could be uncovered and the lower part still
stuck firmly in the ground. So they built a temple over it, believing that that was
the desire of the Buddha himself.
In 1785 during the invasion of Thalang by Burma, the Burmese also tried their
utmost to move the gold image to their country, but failed because a desperate
horde of hornets attacked them every time they began to dig.
For fear of robbery, the villagers later covered the image with gilded stucco, and it
has remained so ever since. Thus Pra Thong is sometimes called Pra Phut which
means a Buddha image swelling from the ground.
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Shopping
When you are in Phuket, you have no need to go to Bangkok just to buy some
quality goods and souvenirs. Because apart from pearls, nielloware, sea-shell
ornaments and dried seafood which Phuket is famous for, Phuket also offers large
selections of the best buys of Thailand. The shopping areas are mostly on Ratsada
Road, Montri Road, Yaowarat Road, Phang-nga Road, Thalang Road in town, on
Thepkasattri Road north of town, and in Patong, Kata and Karon Beaches.
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Samson Jeep Safaris, Phuket. Invite you to
discover the South of Thailand
on their, 7 Day Jeep Safari, round trip. Your Journey will take you from
Phuket up to Khao Sok National Park, on to Surat Thani, Koh Samui & then
back down to Koh Lanta and Krabi before returning to Phuket.
For more information click
here
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