Phuket.com Magazine
October
2007 - Phuket Beach Life
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All those beautiful postcards don’t lie. Phuket and gorgeous
white beaches are synonymous. That’s why this month’s issue
of Phuket.Com magazine concentrates on the island’s shores.
To carry on with our beach scene theme we pick two hotels located
on beautiful strands – The Chedi and the Impiana Phuket Cabana.
We also review Sala Bua and Da Ali, two restaurants right
on the beach and one where you can get sand between your toes as you
eat.
For a bit of action, Sam Wilkinson takes us snorkelling at Coral
island and then goes island-hopping with Coral Seekers. We also have a special guide to the top five beaches on the island as well as the best five ‘secret’ beaches
for you to discover. And if you’ve had enough of the sand, let
us introduce you to the fascinating world of the mangrove
forest.
In October, the two big events on
the island are the Vegetarian Festival and the Phuket
Film Festival. If you are here then, be sure not to miss them.
The fun continues in November, with Phuket Carnival that ushers in
the annual tourist high season. Enjoy!
The Editor
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Phuket figures in many travel publications
'Top 10 Best Islands in the World' list and it does so well
largely because of its beautiful west coast beaches. Here's
a brief summary of Phuket’s most popular beaches.
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Phuket is finally to get its first
full-on water park, with a wave pool, a “relax” pool
and an adventure pool and no fewer than 12 water slides and
chutes, ranging from small to enormous.
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Grafted into a coconut grove
hillside with lush views of arguably one of Phuket’s
finest beaches lies The Chedi; a landmark hotel that has been
here since the beginning of Phuket’s tourist incarnation. Read more... |
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We don't know what it is exactly, but in general it seems that
people who live or work by the beach seem to have such a cool
outlook on life.
They are friendly, quite open and very easy to talk to. Most
of all, their stories can be very interesting.
Phuket.com went to Patong beach and it didn’t take us much
time to find four personalities to talk to.
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Impiana Phuket Cabana Resort and Spa
is one of the leaders in the Phuket hospitality league. Impiana
was one of the first high-level hotels on the island yet you’d
never guess it as the resort has a ‘just built’ freshness
to it. The only resort in Patong actually on the beach, Impiana
has had a running start on its competitors right from the word go.
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With more and more people discovering
the delights of a holiday in Phuket, demand for accommodation has
never been higher, and the hotel and resort business is booming.
Every year, more hotels are being built, from delightful boutique
resorts to large properties with stacks of facilities. Here, Phuket.com
highlights five delightful new properties that have just opened
or that will do so in the next couple of months. Read
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It’s amazing how hot it can get
at 09:00 in the morning. Thankfully, at Chalong Pier there’s
plenty of shade and benches on which to sit with a cool drink. There
are a lot of people here and their faces – in spite of their
wildly differing nationalities – show just three basic emotions.
There’s anticipation on foreigner’s faces, determination
on the tour guides’ faces and pure bewilderment on children’s
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Phuket is surrounded by many beautiful
islands and each one of them has something different to offer. Only
minutes away from Phuket there are sandy beaches, secluded coves,
rare birds and fauna with beautiful weather thrown in for free. Read more... |
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Images of mangrove forests rarely
appear in material advertising the delights of Phuket. The short
trees grow in mud along the shore, lack majesty, and don’t
have flowers worth talking about. But they are a crucial part of
Phuket’s tropical and coastal ecology.
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This month, following our beach theme,
Sam Wilkinson dons his sunglasses and sun cream and takes his bucket
and spade to Ristorante Da Ali on lovely Laem Singh Beach. What did he see in the seafood? Did
he get crabby over the fish? Was he as red as a lobster in the sun?
Find out inside. Our very own gastronaut also went to sample the
fine dining at Sala Bua, in
Impiana Cabana right by the sand of Patong Beach where he sampled
the renowned cuisine of award-winning chef Ronnie Macuja. Read
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Every country has its idiosyncrasies.
What is unusual to a visitor can be quite normal to a local and
vice versa. Thailand is no exception and has its fair share of quirks
and unusual sides. Here are our Top Ten Thai out-of-the-ordinary
sights you will see here.
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Nara Suttichanond, Executive Chef
of the Holiday Inn Phuket Resort, took a break from his work running
the hotel’s kitchens to show us how to make Khao Pad Talay
with style. Kao Pad – Thai for “fried rice” –
is a dish you can find all over Thailand, and which anyone can cook,
but an artist such as Chef Nara can make it look and taste extra-special.
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Phuket’s official high tourism
season will start on November 1st. This year the Tourism Authority
of Thailand, together with Patong Municipality, is organizing the
20th riotously colourful Phuket Carnival to mark the occasion. This
year the organisers have a budget of 30 million baht to mark the
Carnival’s 20th anniversary. Read
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