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disco and other hot spots where everything is available what you want, that includes girls and guys.

Late morning the first sun seeker are out on Patong beach, maybe with a hang over from last night since beer is cheap, a small bottle of Heineken is usually only about baht 100,- in the bars, this moves down a bit for the local beer Singh and beer Chang.

Most of the time the weather is great, from November to May its even greater and there are so many girls around, its a men's worlds. Some early out guys do some jogging along the beach and some fat ugly women from Isaan quarrel over where to place their deckchairs and some mats to place the foreigners in the afternoon for massage. Beach massage is in, all the time the women run around and scream - massage.

Phuket Island is a tropical destination

and the epicenter is here providing the traveler with plenty of amusement, fun, adventure, beaches, great food, marvelous beach resorts, nightlife, bars and Thai bar girls. All this culminates into the center

Patong Beach

Patong beach pics

and that is Patong beach one of the great destinations in worldwide travel. There are no ancient ruins but there is some wild jungle on this beautiful island located in the Andaman Sea, a part of the Indian Ocean. On the cultural side plenty of Buddhist monasteries and temples are to be explored, a center of religion and culture. The island is a fertile area with coconut- and rubber plantations and tin mining in the past, now its tourism.

Maybe you like a lift with a parachute behind the speedboat, do a ride with the jet ski, this is regulated and limited now after plenty of terrible accidents happen, of the type run over the head etc. and sometimes nobody claims the body afterwards.

Just below the horizon is a huge cruise ship, some sail boats are already around and some people swim and snorkel. Small travel agent offices are around everywhere at to offer daytrips into the island world of Phang Nga plus live aboard excursions into the Andaman Sea, north of Phuket at places like the Similan Archipelago, Surin Islands or even further north into the Mergui

Cruise ship and some catamaran

Shopping at Bangla Road

Archipelago in Myanmar or Burma. A daytrip could also be done to small island with pristine beaches around Phuket, after have some fun in a bar or do some other travel.

To visualize all this we have included more Patong pictures to show the place from different perspectives read more

Patong bar

and travel agent at Bangla Road

plus bar girls

Some tropical forest left,

but not much, they cut down anything for quick money. The majority here is naturally Thai, but during the high tourist season people from northern Thailand, the provinces around and myriads of foreign tourists take over.

On the island are numerous tourist attractions for the other people who not just hang around at the beach and slurp beer 24/7. There are several small museums and art galleries in Phuket town, one museum, among others, explains about the tin business of the past which just preceded the tourist business, actually there was somehow like a public voting when the decision had to be made in which direction to got after the tin mines got depleted, the two ideas were industry or tourism, we now today the result.

For a better orientation check the Patong beach map at the right side.

There is still some nature left on the island but the

Patong Beach Map

real thing is under hood, the hood here is the water surface and to look underneath book a liveaboard or other diving tour at one of the travel agents.

Taking a sun bath, sit on the sea shore or get some beach massage from fat Thai ladies from the north of Thailand, they massage you and squeeze you to make you scream. If you like the special massage and soapy massage treatment better take the services of the Christine massage parlor at the second through road behind the beach. This is the center of gravity for anything focusing on pleasure.

If you have enough of beaches have a look for some waterfalls, golf courses or take a daytrip into the vicinity such as Phang Nga Bay and / or the islands around in the emerald waters of the Andaman Sea. This are ideal holiday spots to relax and just let the legs dangle, good for the individual traveler and also the whole family. If you are on a Phuket package tour with accommodation, transport, entertaining and maybe

dining arrangements you are at the right spot, if you are on individual trip you are also at the right place. You will find a strange philosophy around here, most people wont care about anything, everyone let his "pig" out, no joke.

Patong Beach Panorama
Patong Beach Panorama

Patong Beach Relax

At Kings cup regatta

Phuket Tsunami

Phuket Tsunami Car

Luckily the Phuket Tsunami
hit

in the morning and not afternoon, if the flood came in in the afternoon that would have brought a massacre since this was more or less the worst hit area on the island due to the underwater topography. The energy of this "waterwall" was really amazing considering all this turned trucks and buses.
Phuket Tsunami run for your life
Tsunami run for your life

Relax on the beach deckchair

Opposite beach road

Phuket Tsunami spill	rescue	wave	Tsunami remains

Just on the opposite side of the beach road are myriads of restaurants. Thai restaurants are the majority naturally, but also all kind of fast food of the McDonald type.

Cloth shops, other shops selling CD's, DVD's dirt cheap and all kind of fake Nike and other brands shoes and hand bags. Copy watches of Rolex on other brands imported from China are offered on every "second" corner.

Patong Beach massage is very popular among the tourists relaxing on the beach. Almost all massage ladies are from somewhere in northern Thailand. Tough fat middle aged women with a strong and steady grip. They treat you for an hour, after you need 2 hour to relax from the massage.

There are also quiet parts, in particular at the south end, where longtail boats are waiting for some tourists, there is fierce competition among the Thai's who come from every corner

Beach Massage Ladies

Road side Gallery

of the country in search for money. This quick cash scheme in the tourist business bring plenty of criminal minds into here.

A particular awful variant are tuk-tuk driver and the guys who rent jet skis there are incidence almost every day when those are getting violent against tourists, all this people are not from the island, they come here with a hit and run tactic in mind.

Calm and idyllic south end

Food stall around Bangla Road

Sea food court

Thai Roadside Kitchen

Patong Arab Restaurant

The place is hard to beat in terms of the diversity of food offered practically at almost every corner.

There are restaurants of any kind. Thai, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, Arab, Russian, German, Austrian, Burger, Vegetarian, Indian, Steak, Barbecue, Seafood, Pizza,

A little bit further into the concrete and makeshift shelter from wood, plastic and metal sheets, jungle are plenty of other bars and noodle stalls. In between are jewelry shops, bookshops and some Thai guys who try to place some strange creatures of the small dragon type on your shoulder, make a photo and give some money is their message.

At about 3 pm the first guys with the red skin already hang around in the small bars and get their first beers uploaded

Along Bangla Road it gets busy , the TV screams, the DVD bang out the latest English songs and also the first Patong bar girls move in on a early hunt for "farangs", most of the Thai ladies are here for business.

Bar girls usually are not from Phuket most are from somewhere in northern Thailand, the idea is get as far away as possible from the hometown of the bar girls to make sure nobody can discover them.

Bangla Road Patong	Beach nightlife with bar girls
Bar girls dancing

But the "real thing" at Patong beach is emerging

when the sun disappears, darkness creeps in and the nightshift starts with thousands of bar girls

Lady Boy at Bangla Road

Bars lady boy table dancing

Patong beach Soi Eric video

Patong Tiger Go Go Bar

The center of nightlife gravity is Bangla Road, at daytime full of delivery pick up's, coming to life after 8 pm with go go nightclubs, open air bars along the road and the alleys branching off Bangla Road.

Every evening probably around 5.000 ladies and young guys from all over Thailand over their services to thousands of tourists from all over the world.

Dozens of mini-skirted ladies parade along Bangla Road, Patong beach main fun zone.

Some "farang" have a little flirt with them, sometimes followed by action in one of the many cheap hotels behind the eastern end of Bangla Road.

Others stare glumly into their Heineken beers or to some pool shoots. Videos are here

The bars pumping obscure and well-known songs through their
speakers, the problem is, every bar do their own music which quickly become a acoustic disaster, sometimes it needs some earplugs, many people don't know when enough is enough.

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