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Patong is beach life
during the day and crazy nightlife after.
The idea of the
whole spectacle is
..don't think - have fun !!
Along Patong beach road
and the small roads branching off the real
helter skelter is on. Everyone try to
carve out a niche where they could put something
on display and have some sales. This is on day
and night, now a little bit more regulated since
at about 2 am its time to close.
The people move back
into their resort, hotel or apartment, there are
plenty, and have practically every up
market hotel has a splendid spa. The waterfront
and up to around 50m inland was badly hit by the
Tsunami, more further below. Accommodation are
available in every range from around Baht 4000,-
/ month for a cheap apartment with a fan to
luxury hotels for up to Baht 20.000,- / day and
more, currently (2012) villas are in high
demand. Nightlife is the most vibrant on the
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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
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Patong Beach

Patong beach
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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 |
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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 |
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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,
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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. |
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Patong Beach
Panorama
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Phuket Tsunami

Phuket Tsunami Car |
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.

Tsunami run
for your life |

Relax on the beach
deckchair

Opposite beach road |

Phuket Tsunami spill |

rescue |

wave |

Tsunami remains |
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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 |
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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
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Food stall around Bangla Road |

Sea food court |
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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,
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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.
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Bangla Road Patong |

Beach
nightlife with bar
girls |

Bar girls
dancing |

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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 |
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Lady Boy at Bangla Road |

Bars lady boy table dancing |

Patong beach Soi
Eric
video

Patong Tiger Go Go Bar
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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.
Patong Video
Patong
Video Go Go
Patong
Tattoo Video
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Patong beach Bars

Dozens of mini-skirted ladies
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