Things to See & Do (Around Phuket)

Simon Cabaret A show with beautiful ladies, that actually are men. This is also worth a visit, good entertainment. One soft drink is included in the ticket price and also hotel pick-up if you buy your ticket in advance (tour agency).

Bang Pae Waterfall and Gibbon Rehabilitation Project
Nice waterfall and you can also visit Gibbon Rehabilitation Project and support their work. Sometimes visitors can have a guided tour and get more information about each monkey, sometimes they don't allow any visitors at all to enter the area. There are a restaurant in this area so you can relax and have some food and enjoy the waterfall.

Prompthep Cape
A noted beauty spot with great panoramic views. Also a favorite vantage point for watching Phuket's spectacular sunsets.

Seashell Museum
The seashell museum boasts beautiful fossils up to 280 m years old from all over the world.

Phuket Zoo
Daily shows with elephants, crocodiles and monkeys. You can also get photographed with a tiger. Open daily 08:30-18:00.

Methee Cashew Nut Factory
Located at Tilok Uthit 2 Road and boasts extremely fine cashew nuts in a variety of forms; plain, fried with garlic, fried with chili etc. You can also see the factory were every nut has to be cracked and open individually using a special press, thats why these nuts are expensive compared to other nuts.
 

Marine Biological Research Centre
There is a good aquarium with a variety of both ocean and freshwater fish. Open daily 10-16.

Butterfly Garden and Aquarium
Landscaped open air enclosure with thousands of colorful butterflies, plus an excellent tropical aquarium. Open daily 09-17:30.

Naga Pearl Farm
This well known commercial pearl farm offers tours and and demonstration of pearl culturing. Located on Naga Noi island and accessible by boat from Po Bay; contact Naga pearl tour and resort, tel (076) 213-723. Open daily 09:00 - 17:30.

Wat Chalong
One of Phuket's largets Buddhist temples, Wat Chalong in the south of the island behind Chalong Bay is highly revered for the images of two of its former abbots who possessed legendary healing skills.

Wat Phra Thong
Located in Thalang District, this temple is famous for its gold (now covered withplaster) Buddha image half-buried in the ground. Legend has it that many people have died trying unsuccessfully to unearth the statue.

Khao Phra Thaeo National Park
The last surviving patch of the rainforst that once covered the island. Lush flora plus attractive waterfalls located close to Thalang.

Rang Hill (Phuket Town)
A great place with panoramic views of Phuket Town.

Put Jaw (Phuket Town)
Phuket's oldest and largest Chinese temple on Ranong road.

Sea Gypsy Village and wild monkeys (si-re island)
A small island on the east side of Phuket, connected with a small bridge to the main Phuket island. If you drive over the bridge and then continue 1 km and look at the right side of the road you will find a place where you can see wild monkeys. There are mostly local thai people coming here to feed the monkeys with bananas and chew nuts, if you are lucky the monkeys will grab that directly from your hand.
 

Windmills
Close to Prompthep cape there are windmills and also a good viewpoint to look over the sea and watch sunsets.

Phuket Shooting Range
Here you can try to shoot with different weapons, but also watch snake show and play paintball with your friends.
 

Minigolf
You can play this on both Karon and Patong beach, at Dino Park and Pirates Cave.

Golf
Phuket have a couple of good golf courses to suit your needs. See our golf section for more information.

Bungy Jump (Kathu) Jungle Bungy Jump is located in Kathu and you jump above a river.

Patong Go-Kart Speedway
Rent a go-kart in Kathu, 750m track and have fun with your friends or family. It's quite fun to have a competition among friends or within the family. They also have two seated karts or karts for kids. Located after the hills from Patong to Phuket City on the right side.
 

Bowling
You can play bowling at the top floor of Ocean Plaza at Bangla road. The current prices are: 30 baht för shoes, 30 bath for socks, 85 (75) baht for each game and person. Open daily to 02 am. If you are a local citizen, use your Gazetter Card to receive 10% discount. (As an amateur I feel happy with my score of 133 points.)