Beach · Patong, Phuket
Patong Beach
Patong Beach is a white-sand beach on a wide crescent-shaped bay on the west side of Phuket island, at the town of Patong in Kathu district.
12 km in a straight line
Thailand•Island
Phuket (island)
Phuket is an island in the Andaman Sea in Phuket province, Thailand; Phuket Town, the city municipality that is the provincial seat, is on the island. XTOUR maps Patong, Kata and Karon beaches, Promthep Cape and the Phuket Thai Hua Museum on the island.
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Thailand
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Island
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Museum · Talat Nuea, Phuket
Phuket Thai Hua Museum
The Phuket Thai Hua Museum is a museum of Phuket's history and its Hokkien Chinese community, in a Sino-Portuguese building built in 1934 for a Chinese-language school, on Krabi Road in Phuket Town.
13 km in a straight line
Beach · Karon, Phuket
Karon Beach
Karon Beach is a long, fairly straight beach on Phuket island between Patong and Kata beaches, in Karon subdistrict.
18 km in a straight line
Beach · Kata, Phuket
Kata Beach
Kata Beach (Kata Yai) is the northern of the two beaches at Kata, in Karon subdistrict on the west coast of Phuket island, with the smaller Kata Noi beach to the south.
20 km in a straight line
Viewpoint · Rawai, Phuket
Promthep Cape
Promthep Cape (Laem Promthep) is the headland at the southern end of Phuket island, between Nai Han and Rawai beaches; the Tourism Authority of Thailand describes its views out across the Andaman Sea.
26 km in a straight line
Park · Phang Nga
Ao Phang Nga National Park
Ao Phang Nga National Park is a marine national park over part of Phang Nga Bay in Phang Nga province, Thailand, taking in islands such as Khao Phing Kan and Khao Tapu.
35 km in a straight line
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Guides to Phuket (island)
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Travel Guide01
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Jia Chai): dates, rituals and what the sources say
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival, known locally as Jia Chai, is a nine-day festival of Phuket's Thai-Chinese Hokkien community, dated by the Chinese lunar calendar, so its Western dates move: the Tourism Authority of Thailand listed 21 to 29 October in 2025 and 10 to 18 October in 2026. This explainer sets out what TAT's releases say about its processions and rituals, where TAT's own accounts disagree, and what XTOUR could not confirm.
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Travel Guide02
Thailand travel guide: choosing a base
XTOUR plans Thailand around places you can stay in: the towns and cities of Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, Kanchanaburi, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phuket Town and Krabi Town, and the islands of Phuket, Ko Samui and Ko Pha-ngan. This guide says what each base is for in XTOUR's coverage, which sites are reached from a base rather than inside it, and where XTOUR's detailed guides take over.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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